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.

Ocean- Day 8

Here is what we did on Day 8....

 Art- We finished out Whales adding a mouth,eyes and fins

Math- Shell Counting, Both shells and marbles were a $1 at Dollar Tree

Literacy- Ff is for Fruit Salad. The kid's made Fruit Salad today.

Science/Sensory- Ocean cookie cutters and shells with Play-Doh

Ocean- Day 7

Here is what we did on Day 7 of Ocean...

Art- Killer Whale Plate. I taped of the area's where the kid's did not need to paint, also because the kids used so much paint it took a while for the plates to dry making this a 2 day project.

Math- Bucket Counting. I printed the picture off of a coloring page and added the number's myself.

Science/Sensory- Water Play

Literacy- Fruit-loop Ff's

Ocean- Day 6

For Science today the kids and I talked about caring for fish, we fed the fish in the classroom tank and did some observations of the Fish tank,  unfortunately all of the pictures are really blurry :( Here is what else we did on day 6 of Ocean.....

Art- Fruit Loop Octopus. I found the outline of the octopus and other ocean animal's at the Dollar Tree by my house.

Math- Fish Snack Sorting

Literacy- Flower Ff's. I found the sticky foam flower's at Dollar Tree.