Classroom News

A Peek at Our Week

Date: May 6, 2019

Day of the Monday Wednesday Friday

Week
Gathering Children will learn the Children will learn Children will learn the
Time names of their about different kinds names of various
8:35-8:50 classmates as they sing of blocks and how to construction tools and
a hello song and build towers using a talk about safety tips for
identify who has variety of blocks. working with these
certain letters in their tools.
name.
Self- Creative Art: Creative Art: Blocks: Children will
Selected Children will fold Children will use eye build various buildings
Activities construction paper droppers and water or structures using
8:50-10:05 into different shapes with food coloring to Legos and put plastic
and color the paper. paint and mix colors. people inside or around
their creations.
Science/Sensory: Science/Sensory:
Children will use Children will play with Dramatic Play: Children
droppers to squeeze the Oobleck and pour will use various
colored vinegar onto a it in and out of various construction tools and
tray of baking soda sized containers. costumes to pretend to
and observe the work at a construction
reaction. Manipulative/Math: site.
Children will match
Manipulative/Math: the color and number
Children will use of animals to
playdough and laminated cards.
playdough tools to
make different Sensory:
creations. Children will mold,
scoop, pour, dump,
Sensory: and feel cloud sand.
Children will play with
tractors and dump Dramatic Play:
trucks as they dig in Children will pretend
the sensory table filled to be construction
with beans to find workers and build
foam letters. various structures.

Dramatic Play: Blocks:

Children will pretend Children will build a
to work in a variety of city using blocks and
 jobs, such as a fireman, drive cars through the
construction worker, city.
vet, and policeman.

Blocks:
Children will build
different structures for
lizards, dinosaurs, and
geckos.
Snack Ritz crackers Goldfish crackers ½ Frozen Go-Gurt
9:00-9:45 ½ cheese stick Juice Animal Crackers
Water Water
Small Focus Book: My Friend Bear Book: Building Shapes Book: Tools by Venice
Activities by Jez Alborough by Susan Canizares Shone
10:15- Activity: Children will Activity: Children will Activity: Children will
10:30 play a matching game build with Lincoln build structures using a
with the faces of their Logs as teachers read variety of tools while
classmates and them books about teachers read to them
teachers. building. books about
construction sites and
tools.
Learning Together at Home
1. Encourage your child to learn the names of his/her classmates by asking questions
like, “Who did you play with today?” and, “Who are some of your friends in your class?”
2. Using items around your house, have your child practice building towers. For example,
you might use cereal boxes or egg cartons to build a tower.
3. In order to help your child learn more about tools, you could have him/her help you
with tasks around the house that require tools. This might include using a screwdriver
or using a hammer with adult supervision.

Early Childhood Fundamentals

When children choose how to play for themselves, they experience freedom in making
those choices. They also begin to see connections between choice and the consequences
or results of that choice. The type of toys or materials parents offer can help their
children make more meaningful decisions. Open-ended materials can be used in many
ways so children can decide for themselves how to use them. For example, a child can
imagine a block to be a fire truck or any number of things. A toy fire truck, on the other
hand, is usually only used as a fire truck. Foam pieces, little wooden sticks, ribbon scraps,
and other reusable resources are all open-ended materials that inspire creative thinking
and delight when children imaginatively use them to make something no one has ever
made before.