Preschool Week 7: What We Were Up To

Fire Safety

October 19-22
Letter of the Week: Cc

Number of the Month: 2

Shape of the Month: Triangle

Color of the Month: Blue

· At the sensory/art table, we have blue play-doh.
· At the paint easel, we have blue paint, water color paint, and new blue DOT paint.
· On the practical life shelf, cutting food, nuts and bolts, flower arranging, pumpkin tonging, spider sorting, pumpkin pouring and dressing vests.
· On the art shelf, we have a fire safety color page, pumpkin gluing, leaf gluing, Halloween stamping, and then our free art supplies (paper, cardstock, construction paper, scissors, crayons, markers, pencils, tape, glue, stapler, and paper punch.)
· On the sensorial shelf, we have color tablets 1 and 2, the brown stair, block tower, and knobbed cylinder A and B and the red rods.
· On the geometry shelf, we have the circle and the triangle puzzle. There is also a geoboard, shape sorter, and geometric solids.
· On the letter shelf, we have sandpaper letters (lower case and upper case) alphabet cards, and leap frog letters. I’ve also added the Red Language materials (learning 3 letter words that start with r, a, m, f, b, i, t and g.)
· On the language shelf, classified cards on rooms in your house, calendar matching, and fall letter words. I also have the Bob books – Set A (easy reader books) on the shelf.
· On the writing shelf, we are working on the triangle shape with the metal insets. We also have dry erase writing, letter stamping, letter tracing for C, magnadoodle, and moveable alphabet.
· On the science shelf, there is mammal puzzle – horse, plant puzzle – tree, and land and water cards.
· On the geography shelf, there are the continent globe and the sand and water globe and the continent map puzzle.
· On the math shelf, we have sandpaper numbers, number puzzle, number bears, bead matching, fraction puzzles, spindles, and seasonal counting activities.
· We are reading Big Fire Trucks, I Can Be A Fire Fighter, Big Frank’s Fire Truck, Fire Fighter, I’m Going To Be A Fire Fighter, Fighting Fires, and Clifford, The Firehouse Dog.