Week of September 29-October 2, 2014

Week of September 29-October 2, 2014

Theme: Getting Along & Apples
Show and Share: Thursday October 2
Bring in your favorite type of apple
Nursery Rhyme: Old Mother Hubbard

This week's activities and discussions focus on children's learning to get along with one another while they play and learn together. Children will read about a character named Amelia who goes to a new school, and they will compare part of their day at preschool with hers. They will explore activities they undertake in the classroom, such as reading books and playing musical instruments, and outdoor activities they participate in on the playground. Children will learn about effective ways to help each other play and learn and ways in which their teacher helps each of them.

Learning Together:

• Take turns saying and guessing riddles with your child. Remind your child to listen when it's your turn to speak.
• Help your child undertake something he or she wants to learn to do, such as printing letters, catching or throwing a ball and so on.
• After school each day talk with your child about what he or she did during the day. Begin by sharing what you did during the day and then pose questions designed to elicit more than "yes or no" answers. For example, ask: What songs did you sing today? What new things did you learn? Which activity was the most fun for you today? Why? What stories did your teacher read aloud? What new friends did you make? what have you brought home from school to share?

Some of this weeks activities include:

• Shape sorting & matching shapes to make pictures
• Following a recipe to make play-doh
• Using the Ipad and classroom listening center to listen to LIttle Critter Stories and one of our classroom stories this week.
• Using hand lenses to look at different fall objects and parts of an apple.
• We will be comparing and contrasting items to find similarities and differences
• We will be playing some fine motor games including: Froggy Feed and The Sneak, Snacky Squirrel
• We are going to be using apples to make apple prints with paint.
• We will be using letter stamps to stamp our names
• Stories this week include: Amelia's Show & Tell Fiesta, Apple for Everyone
• We will be looking at a variety of pictures and discussing how we can play and learn together at school.

For show and share this week please have your child bring in their favorite type of apple. We are going to keep the apples at school because we will be doing a variety of activities with apples the following week.