First Wednesday of the month… Holy Eucharist, Please dress your child in Dress Uniform…

 

Mark your Calendars…

 

April 2-6…. Elise

April 9-13… Annabelle

April 16-20… Parker

April 23-27… Kyler

April 30-May4… Claire

 
Shape : review of all shapes

Color: review of all colors

Counting: 1-10
We will continue to work on counting and recognizing numbers 1-10
Letter of the week “N” review “L”, “F’ “E”, “H”,”T’, “I”, “C”, “U”, “G”, “O”, “Q”, “S”,”J”,”D”,”P”,”B”,”R”,”K”,”A”,”V”, “M”

Show-N-Share every Thursday… Please bring something that starts with the letter of the week.

 IB Unit of Inquiry
 We are illustrating weekly pictures depicting the IB profiles and characteristics.

IB Unit… “Eat it Up“

Centers:

Language: Playing listening games with the letter k.  Read classic tales… The Three Little Kittens and Old King Cole

 

Home Living: dramatic play with dress up clothes, dolls, and kitchen equipment. I will add  Doctors coat, and a Detectives hat and magnifing glass for the children to dress up in.

Play doh: tools and play dohfor original creations and practice with cut outs for current theme, shape of the week, etc.

Transportation:cars, trucks and airplanes for dramatic play I have added dinosaurs for the children to play with.

Library: pillows to relax on and plenty of just-for-fun and theme books to look at and read (Dinosaurs books and puppets to tell stories with)

Puzzles: some just for fun and some thematic, others for practice in language and math skills

Teacher:  teacher-directed activity with one student or a small group for deeper instruction and assessment

Construction:creative building and cognitive and spatial development in tall and small ways with Legos, Lincoln logs, space links, and foam blocks

Math:manipulativesfor practice with sorting, patterning, counting, matching, numbers and other math skills

Painting: art on an easel or at the tables with tempura and water colors, sometimes free draw and sometimes structured… Paint Dazzling Diamonds, decorating “D’s”, Dobber Art, Decorating Donuts.

Sensory: Pop Corn for counting and filtering with funnels

Science: We have a small, medium, and large dinosaur frozen in water. The students will guess which one will melt the fastest. We will spray the blocks of ice with spray bottles, and record our thoughts and make a graph to see which one melts the fastest.
 

Co-Curricular

 Art

Music: We will be playing and moving to the song Never Smile at a Crocodile to go with their reptile unit

Physical Education:  The 3’s have been working in tag games and we will continue to learn different versions of tag.  This week we will try Dinosaur Tag.

Spanish: Over the next several weeks, we will be doing a mini-unit on family. We will be learning the words for mother, father, brother, sister, grandpa, grandma, uncle, aunt, and cousins. In Pre-K, we will take these words a little further with students doing some describing of their relatives, such as what they look like and possibly personality. An example would be: “My mom has brown hair and blue eyes. She is very nice.”   - We will continue to work on words for family members – mom, dad, brother, sister, grandma, grandpa. I hope to add aunt, uncle, and cousin.