Community- Day 10

Today's focus was on Construction sites/ Construction Workers. Story was Goodnight, Goodnight Construction Site. Here is what else we did....

Art- Tool Belt. I found the tools as a coloring page in google images and the belt is made of construction paper. The belt stays on with a paperclip.

 

Literacy- Dot Stamping letter G, worksheet can be found at https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B8lASHP4on2CN0M4ejJBOVR1OTA/edit

Math- Tool Sorting. (Print extra coloring pages from art project)

Sensory- Construction Play

My Community- Day 9

Today's focus was on Bakery's/Baker's, Story was Pinkalicious by: Victoria Kann and
Mr. Cookie Baker by: Monica Wellington. Sensory is not pictured by it was color pasta play. Here is what else we did....

Art- Baker Hat. This is a strip of construction paper and tissue paper for the top part of the hat.

Math- Pasta Sorting by color or shape

Literacy- Pasta letter's for the 1st letter of each child's name

My Community- Day 8

Today we talked about why we have Grocery Stores and what we get at the store. Reading Elmo visits the Grocery store. Here is what else we did.....

Art- Food Collage

Math- Food Sorting by color

Cooking- Banana Bread

Literacy- Letter Puzzles

My Community- Day 7

Today's Focus was Doctor's. Reading Dr.Duck by by H.M. Ehrlich. We talked about how Doctors help us and how they keep us safe by giving us shots.

Art- Doctor's Bag, I had to create my own coloring page of Doctor tool's by printing out a bunch of Google images. I also cut out the outline of a purse for the best Doctor bag shape.  The kids where asking when we were going to use the scent paint again so i had them use watercolors over crayon's for this project and dropped a few drops of oil in the watercolors (lemon & lavender).

Literacy- Letter Matching. Both this and the number matching cards can be found at Dollar Tree

Math- Number Matching & Counting

My Community- Day 6

Today's focus was on Police Officer's. Story was Officer Buckle and Gloria by Peggy Rathmann Here is what else we did.....

Art- Officer Badge. I had cut the outline of the badge myself and had the kids paint the badge. The starts are stickers.

Math- Shape Builders 

Literacy- Gg is for glitter. The kids played with glitter pens that I found at Dollar Tree. 

Sensory- Water Play (not pictured)

My Community- Day 5

Today's focus was on Garbage Trucks (today was also trash pick up for our neighborhood) We discussed what the garbage man did and what would happen if he did not come.

Here is what else we did today......
Art/Literacy- Shape Art and letter Gg for Garbage Truck

Math- Trashcan Sorting. I found the garbage can image in google images

Sensory- Indoor Bubbles (It's still 110 here in PHX AZ)

My Community- Day 4

Today we put our focus on what firefighters do. Story was Firebears by Rhonda Gowler Here is what we did today.....

Art- Fireman Puppet. The template can be found at http://dc128.4shared.com/doc/SXVSiK7b/preview.html I forgot to take a picture of the finished product :( 

Math- Fire/Water Counting. I made the flames wrote number's on them and the kids put the number of marble's (water) on the flame.

Literacy-  Mini Community Book, I can't remember where i found the printable for this but
have found other Community helper books in Google images

Science/Sensory- Scented Play-Doh. I added lavender oil to the dough, which can be found at
most heath food stores.

My Community- Day 3

On Day 3 we made a list of People, Places and things we would find in our Community. In the afternoon the mailman brought a package to the door and said Hi to the kids (Such a sweet elderly man that has been out mail man for the past 4 years and my in-laws for the past 10+ years) We then read the Jolly Postman Book By: Janet & Allan Ahlberg. Here is what else we did today.....

Art/Sensory- Finger Painting (Mixing Yellow & Red)

Math- Lego Matching. I printed out clip art of places, people and things in the Community, cut them in pieces and taped them to legos.

Literacy-  Green Play-Doh Letter Gg's

My Community- Day 2

We did a review of Day 1 now that everyone was here today (photo cards, what a community is and letter Gg) We also looked at sign's and traffic light's. We talked about how traffic light's keep us safe and which color each light is telling us to do. Story Time- I Read Signs By: Tana Hoban  Here is what else we did.....
Art- Traffic Light/Cup Painting

Math- Red, Yellow & Green Sorting (Traffic Light Colors)

Sensory- Letter Gg Collage

Sensory- Colored Pasta (See Day 1 for recipe)

My Community- Day 1 Intro.

My Community is our theme for August. Today I introduced the class to what a community is. We looked at photo cards, talked about places, people and vehicles that we would see when looking out our own front window, and read Busy, Bust, Town By: Richard Scarry. I also introduced the Letter Gg (due to so many kids being gone we will do Letter Gg collage tomorrow) After Circle Time the kids look for community pictures in magazines for our class Community collage.

Our Class Community Collage

Sensory- Letter Gg and Colored Pasta. Colored pasta is super easy to make. Take a large ziplock bag add 1 Tablespoon of rubbing alcohol, about 15 drops of food coloring and dry pasta. You mix it all together in the bag tell the pasta is coated and dump it out on newspaper to dry. 

 Math- Community Helper Sorting, This activity can be found at www.teacherspayteachers.com/ but you have to be a member (it's free) 

 

Ocean- Day 11

Here is what we did  on our last day of Ocean.......

Art- Crab Bowl

Literacy- Letter F Tracing found at http://www.keywordpictures.com/keyword/letter%20f%20worksheet/

Math- Fish Sorting by color, I cut the fish out of paint samples

Cooking/Sensory- Ocean Snack Cup (Vanilla Pudding with blue food coloring, Smashed graham crackers and gummy sharks) I wanted to use blue Jello but couldn't find any.

Ocean- Day 10

Here is what we did on Day 11 of Ocean....

Art- Clothes Pin Shark(not pictured) I forgot to take a picture and can't find my son's shark. The kid's colored a small shark picture, I cut the shark in half and glued it onto a clothes pin. When the kids pinch the back of the clothes pin it seems like the shark is opening it's mouth.

Literacy- Ff is for Fire. The kids glued tore up paper on the letter F.

 Math- Shell and pail counting

 Sensory- Water Table

Ocean-Day 9

Here is what we did on day 9 of Ocean...

Art- Paper Plate Fish

Literacy- Letter Puzzles, Letters Aa-Ff

Math- Ocean Number Mat. I have a Pre-School  Math Mat Book for printing but find other uses for the Mats.

Science/Sensory- Sensory Bottles, The bottle with the Octopus was bought at our local Aquarium and was made for Sensory bottles.