Costello Building Blocks- Weekly Happenings: October 10-14, 2016

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Weve been busy putting our social and emotional skills to work.
Here are some things were working on:

Social and Emotional Development

Taking turns
Sharing
Putting our feelings into words
Using words rather than yelling or crying when we become
upset
Resolving conflicts when they arise
Being nice and treating others kindly
Helping others when they need help
Putting on our own jackets
Practicing zipping our own jackets
Discussing good choices vs. bad choices and learning why its
important to make good choices

Self-identity: Children have a positive self-identity.

Sense of competence: Children feel they are competent.
Emotions: Children recognize, label, and regulate their feelings.
Empathy: Children demonstrate empathy toward others.
Community: Children participate in the community of the classroom.
Building relationships: Children build relationships with other children and adults.
Cooperative play: Children engage in cooperative play.
Moral development: Children develop an internal sense of right and wrong.
Conflict resolution: Children resolve social conflicts.

Math: counting, shapes, part-whole relationships, data analysis, spatial awareness,

number words and symbols
Science: observing, classifying, communicating ideas, drawing conclusions
Social Studies: diversity, decision making

Apple Dice Game as a group:

Children each had a printout of a tree that had the numbers 1-6
scattered on it. Taking turns, children rolled the dice, counted the
number of dots, located that number on their tree and placed a
sticker (apple) over it. Children played until all of the numbers on
their trees were covered and they had a full apple tree.

Apple Dice Game with a partner:

Yesterday, we did this activity as a whole group so that the children

understood and got the hang of the gang. Today, we did it again, by
request, so that each child worked only with a partner. The pairs
worked together to count the dots on their dice and then locate that
number on their trees.
Children each had a printout of a tree that had the numbers 1-6
scattered on it. Taking turns, children rolled the dice, counted the
number of dots, located that number on their tree and placed a
sticker (apple) over it. Children played until all of the numbers on
their trees were covered and they had a full apple tree.

Math: counting, shapes, part-whole relationships, data analysis, spatial awareness,

number words and symbols
Science: observing, classifying, communicating ideas, drawing conclusions
Social Studies: diversity, decision making

Costello Building Blocks- Weekly Happenings: October 10-14, 2016

Chicka Chicka Boom Boom

Physical: fine motor skills

After reading the book Chicka Chicka Boom Boom, children helped
the letters back up the tree. They used letter stickers to stick to their
tree. As children were adding the letters to their trees, they were
encouraged to share with the friends at the table the name of the
letter that they were working on, and the sound that the letter makes,
if they knew it!

Language/Literacy: comprehension, vocabulary, alphabetic k knowledge

Math: data analysis
Science: observing, classifying, communicating ideas

Categories: an outdoor game

Physical: large motor, healthy behavior

All the children line up side by side except the player who is
the caller.
The caller stands at a distance from the lined up players
The caller then calls off different categories (ex. Everyone
wearing red or if your birthday is in June, etc.)
If the childrens category is called, they must run to the other
side as fast as they can
Whoever arrives last is out for that round
The last player in becomes the new caller and the game
starts over

Social/Emotional: cooperative play

Science: observation, classifying, drawing conclusions

FUN RUNSocial Emotional: community

TODAY WAS THE FUN RUN! The children had a blast participating in
the fun run todayit was all they could talk about! All of the children
ran fast and hard and did an awesome job. After the fun run, we
stayed outside to cheer on the next fee weeks.
Large
Group

Physical: gross motor, healthy behavior

Songs & Fingerplays:

Birthdays
Scamper
Witches Brew
5 Little Pumpkins
5 Little Fish

Discussion & Activities:

Letters and their names

Letters and their sounds

Approaches to Learning: engagement

Social/Emotional: sense of competence, community
Physical: gross motor skills, fine motor skills, body awareness
Language/Literacy: comprehension, speaking, vocabulary
Math: number words and symbols, counting, part-whole relationships
Creative: music, movement
Social Studies: diversity

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Literature:

Sensory
Table

The Black Cat Allan Ahlberg

The Magic Pumpkin- Lucille Settle
Pete the Cat: 4 Groovy Buttons- James Dean
Berenstain Bears: Trick or Treat- Stan & Jan Berenstain
There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed Some Books- Lucille Colandro
Ten Apples Up On Top- Dr. Seuss
Mud Puddle-Robert Munch
Purple, Green & Yellow- Robert Munch
One Duck Stuck-Phyllis Root
The Vowel Family- Sally Walker

Rice, plastic spiders, small toy spiders, trays

Language & Literacy: comprehension, speaking, vocabulary, phonological

awareness, alphabetic knowledge, concepts about print, book knowledge

Approaches to Learning: initiative, planning, engagement, problem solving

Social/Emotional: self-identity, sense of competence, emotions, community,
cooperative play, conflict resolution
Physical: fine motor, body awareness
Creative: pretend play
Science: experimenting, communicating ideas, natural and physical world, tools