Preschool Week 16: A New Year!

Monday with Arielle

Opening Activity: game - “race to trace” math/writing skills worksheet. (pinterest)

Circle Time: 

• Date/Time/Weather
• read “Roberto, the Insect Architect” 

Snack: applesauce, crackers, “can’t”aloupe

Wiggle Time: wiggle block

Lesson: Discuss difference between a wish and a goal.
http://suite101.com/article/goal-setting-lesson-plan-a11204
http://www.momeomagazine.com/tag/teaching-kids-goal-setting/

Craft: Visualize Our Goals - Illustrate Goals for This Week, This Year, In Fifteen Years. Make a chart to show progress for one weekly goal daily (chores, reading a book, helping someone, etc.)

Wednesday with Naomi

Opening Activity:

• Class pet responsibility (feed rats, clean their cage, give them baths)
• Math (numbers 4-5)
• Alphabet (G) workbooks 

Circle Time: 

• Date/Time/Weather
• Read "Malia and Baby Brother" and talk about setting a goal this year to learn how to read. 
• Sing alphabet songs. 

Snack: String cheese, almonds, oranges

Wiggle Time: Bowling! Learning number recognition and subtraction

Lesson: What does it mean to start a “NEW YEAR”? Talk about hours into days, into weeks, into months, into years using envelopes to demonstrate. (Tuck 7 little tags with week days written on them into 4 small envelopes labeled "weeks". Then stuff 4 "week" envelopes into each of 12 larger envelopes labeled with the names of each month. Then tuck all 12 "month" envelopes into a large envelop labeled "year".)

Craft: Discuss how some cultures celebrate New Years at a different time than us. Talk about Chinese New Year and then make a Chinese dragon craft!