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Pre-K May Curriculum

Theme/Focus: Animals that live in the water and rhyming words.

Parent Activities: Provide a sign that says your kiddos’s whole name. Incorporate games to your family time together.

Special Skills: Writing names with upper and lower case letters. Using full sentences in conversation. Participating in activities from the beginning to the end.

LITERACY ART MUSIC & MOVEMENT
VISITOR: Story Teller Olive

Letter Bingo

Combining three letters

Underwater

An Extraordinary Egg

Fidgety Fish

Commotion in the Ocean

Turtles

The Gas We Pass

Teasing

White board

Cutting along a line

Writing names (upper & lower case letters)

Red, green, and white triangles

Mother’s Day Gifts

Pinata

Turtle Shell Collage

Rainbow Fish

SONGS:

Dance Freeze

Instrument Parade (Friendship March)

Hulla-baloo

If You’re Angry and You Know It!

Under The Sea (Little Mermaid song)

Slippery Fish

MATH & SCIENCE HEALTH & SAFETY
Number Bingo

Checking on our seeds (Are there sprouts?) 2nd try. What happened to our seeds?

Ten Little Fish

Bead Patterning

Bubbles

Car and Toy Wash

Dress for weather (Why do we need sunscreen?)

Fire drill

Traffic Signs

Making fresh tortillas

It’s Much Too Hot!

Dressing for the Weather

Lucky Glasses

Changes to the Environment:

Themed books in quiet and reading areas

Whales Passing, I Wonder Why Fish Don’t Drown, I’m the Biggest Thing in the Ocean, The Shark Who Was Afraid Of everything, A House For Hermit Crab, Ellen And The Goldfish, Baby Whale’s Journey, Swimmy, The Rainbow Fish, Under the Sea

Observations/Notes: Look at Desired Results Measures

1 & 2 Identity of Self & Recognition of own skills and accomplishments

7 & 8 Conflict Negotiation & Awareness in self and others

16 & 17 Curiosity and initiative & Engagement and Persistence

19 & 20 Cause and Effect & Engages in Problem Solving

22 & 23 Number sense: quantity, counting and math operations

30-33 Letter & word knowledge, concept of print, phonological awareness

35 Fine Motor Skills

Edited: May 3rd, 2010

Teacher Megan & Norma’s Lesson Plan

Theme/Focus: St. Patrick’s Day, Spring time, Self

Parent Activities: Please help the kiddos practice speaking in full sentences.

LITERACY ART
  • Librarian Jenny
  • Tracing own names and recognizing them
  • Color of his own
  • The Crocodile and The Dentist
  • Silly Sally
  • You Look Funny

We also have the Lomita Leadership Group come out and read to us.

  • Shamrock with their name.
  • Making a clay pot
  • Sprouting Seeds in a pot
  • Green and Yellow paint
  • Rectangles
  • Kites
Changes to the Environment:
New Play dough
New Floor Art
New Books placed in our book areas.
Special Skills:  Tracing their name.
MUSIC & MOVEMENT MATH & SCIENCE HEALTH & SAFETY
SONGS:

  • I’m a Little Teapot
  • Itsy Bitsy Spider
  • Ring around the Rosey
  • Rainbow in a Jar
  • Color My Petals
  • Plant seeds
  • New Play dough
  • How to make a functioning kite.  What does the wind move
Stop Drop & Roll

Germs

Observations/NotesLook at Desired Results Measures 1 & 2 Identity of Self & Recognition of own skills and accomplishments
4 & 6 Building cooperative play with others
7 & 8 Conflict Negotiation & Awareness in self and others
16 & 17 Curiosity and initiative & Engagement and Persistence
19 & 20 Cause and Effect & Engages in Problem Solving
22 & 23 Number sense: quantity, counting and math operations
30-33 Letter & word knowledge, concept of print, phonological awareness
34 Gross motor skills
35 Fine Motor Skills

Edited: March 13th, 2010

Teacher Liselle’s March 2010 Curriculum

Theme/Focus: The change of weather & St. Patrick’s Day

Parent Activities: Please help the kiddos practice speaking in full sentences.

The curriculum for our class is based on the school’s monthly calendar, the interest of the children, and the DRDP-R requirements.  Flexibility is always exercised, based on skill level as well as interest of the kiddos in class.

LITERACY ART MUSIC & MOVEMENT
VISITOR: Story Teller Olive

VISITORS: Lomita Park Leadership Group

Reading friends’ names

Letter Bingo

Letter sounds, (m, r, t)

Combining letters (on, at, sat)

You Look Funny

Paper Mache of landscape

White board

Cutting along a line

Writing names (upper & lower case letters)

Treasure map

Leafless trees

SONGS: Alphabet Song, We All Live Together, ABC Rock,

Dance Freeze

Treasure Hunt

Instrument Parade (Friendship March)

The Bear Went Over the Mountain

Hulla-baloo

MATH & SCIENCE HEALTH & SAFETY Special Skills:
Number Bingo

Puzzles

Plant seeds

Mountains, hills, volcanoes, valleys, plateau, etc.

Mix with droppers, water & ink

Pattern Bingo

Rocks

Dress for weather

Earthquake drill

Reviewing road signs

What is that fruit?

What is that vegetable?

Cookbook

Writing names with upper and lower case letters.

Using full sentences in conversation.

Participating in activities from the beginning to the end.

Combining letter sounds to read words.

Themed books in quiet and reading areas

  • Rain, I don’t want to go to bed!
  • Tiger Can’t sleep
  • Dig Dig Digging
  • The Three Little Pigs
  • The Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig
  • The Three Billy Goats Gruff
  • Bambi
  • Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain
  • Amason Alphabet
  • Muncha! Muncha! Muncha!
  • Puddles
  • The Diggers, Blaze A Trail
  • Round the Garden, Rocks
  • Round the Garden

Observations/NotesLook at Desired Results Measures

  • 1 & 2 Identity of Self & Recognition of own skills and accomplishments
  • 4 & 6 Building cooperative play with others
  • 7 & 8 Conflict Negotiation & Awareness in self and others
  • 16 & 17 Curiosity and initiative & Engagement and Persistence
  • 19 & 20 Cause and Effect & Engages in Problem Solving
  • 22 & 23 Number sense: quantity, counting and math operations
  • 30-33 Letter & word knowledge, concept of print, phonological awareness
  • 34 Gross motor skills
  • 35 Fine Motor Skills

Edited: March 5th, 2010