Apples All Around!September 21 -25th, 2009
Letter of the Week: A
Number of the Month: 1
Shape of the Month: Circle
Color of the Month: Red
• At the sensory/art table, we have red play-doh.
• At the paint easel, we have red paint.
• On the practical life shelf, cutting food, locks puzzle, nuts and bolts, sticks in a shaker, pouring, tonging, and button dressing vests.
• On the art shelf, we have a apple color page, 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, the brown stair, block tower, and knobbed cylinder A.
• On the geometry shelf, we have the circle 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.
• On the language shelf, there is calendar matching, and fall letter words.
• On the writing shelf, we are working on the circle shape with the metal insets. We also have dry erase writing, letter stamping, letter tracing, 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, and spindles.
• We are reading Big Red Barn, A Day at the Apple Orchard, Ten Red Apples, One Little, Two Little, Three Little Apples, and Apples.
One of the artists washing his hands after working with paint. The bathroom is right next to the preschool area which works out well. When the bathroom isn't being used by the preschool, it is the bathroom that Jelly Bean and Flower usually use.
Here are 3 students working on art at the same time.
A student working on cutting.
Working on painting with the red tempera paint.
