Saturday, January 28, 2012

February / Week 4 / Animals & Nature

2/20 - 2/24

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- MONDAY - Day Off
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- TUESDAY -
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Morning Activities & Outside Time:
- Animal Books & Image Posters
- "Mae's Farm" Collage (on butcher paper, let Mae choose animal cutouts to arrange on her very own "farm")
- Puzzles of 2
- Play "farm" with toy animals (discuss animals and sounds they make)

Afternoon Activities:
- Blocks
- Imaginative Play
- Image Posters
- Music & Movement
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- WEDNESDAY -
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Morning Activities: Little Gym!
- FIELD TRIP TO PETCO after gym class (visit Petco in West Seattle, look at fish, puppies, ferets, etc)

Afternoon Activities:
- Blocks
- Imaginative Play
- Image Posters
- Music & Movement
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- THURSDAY -
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Morning Activities: Soccer!
- Revisit Mon/Tues activities with remaining time after soccer

Afternoon Activities:
- Blocks
- Imaginative Play
- Image Posters
- Music & Movement
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- ART FRIDAY! -
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Morning Activities & Outside Time:
- Finger Painting Animals (hand print sheep with paint, cotton balls & silly eyes)
- Leaf Rubs (paper & crayons)

Afternoon Activities:
- Blocks
- Imaginative Play
- Image Posters
- Music & Movement
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- END OF THE WEEK THOUGHTS & OBSERVATIONS -
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February / Week 3 / Families & Valentines Day

2/13 - 2/17

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- MONDAY -
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Morning Activities & Outside Time:
- What's the Weather?? (discuss what's happening with the weather outside)
- Make Valentines for Family and Friends
- Family Finger Puppets
- Shape Bingo

Afternoon Activities:
- Blocks
- Imaginative Play
- Image Posters
- Music & Movement
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- TUESDAY -
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Morning Activities & Outside Time:
- Friendly Face Place Matt
- Name Bingo
- Photo Albums (look through and discuss who is who)
- Valentine Cookies for Friends (and for us too :)

Afternoon Activities:
- Blocks
- Imaginative Play
- Image Posters
- Music & Movement
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- WEDNESDAY -
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Morning Activities: Little Gym!
- Deliver Valentine cookies with remaining time after gym

Afternoon Activities:
- Blocks
- Imaginative Play
- Image Posters
- Music & Movement
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- THURSDAY -
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Morning Activities: Soccer!
- Revisit Mon/Tues activities with remaining time after soccer

Afternoon Activities:
- Blocks
- Imaginative Play
- Image Posters
- Music & Movement
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- ART FRIDAY! -
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Morning Activities & Outside Time:
- Family Tree (draw large tree together on butcher paper, decorate with cutout leaves and photos of immediate family)
- Family Collage (photo cutouts of family, Mae's house, animals, objects, stickers, etc - create a busy scene together)

Afternoon Activities:
- Blocks
- Imaginative Play
- Image Posters
- Music & Movement
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- END OF THE WEEK THOUGHTS & OBSERVATIONS -
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We had a great Valentine's week! She LOVED making handprints for our Valentines, especially the part where she got to squish the paint in her hands ;) We worked on family member names and just words in general. She's really getting better with pronouncing certain words and more interested in trying to repeat things. Banana, raisin, hand and Lola were the words of the week! The way she says banana is too stinking cute! She's also getting really good at identifying shapes. She doesn't really say the words yet, but when I say "where's the star?" for instance, she almost always gets them right. You can really see things starting to click and her being more and more interested in learning new things.

February / Week 2 / Shapes, Colors & Matching (round 2)

2/6 - 2/10

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- MONDAY -
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Morning Activities & Outside Time:
- Gym Make-up Day!
- Shape Bingo
- Puzzles of 2

Afternoon Activities:
- Blocks
- Imaginative Play
- Image Posters
- Music & Movement
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- TUESDAY -
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Morning Activities & Outside Time:
- Shape Mobile
- Color Matching / I Spy
- Simon Says
- Red Light / Green Light
- Puzzles of 2
- Image Posters

Afternoon Activities:
- Blocks
- Imaginative Play
- Image Posters
- Music & Movement
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- WEDNESDAY -
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Morning Activities: Little Gym!
- Revisit Mon/Tues activities with remaining time after gym

Afternoon Activities:
- Blocks
- Imaginative Play
- Image Posters
- Music & Movement
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- THURSDAY -
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Morning Activities: Soccer!
- Revisit Mon/Tues activities with remaining time after soccer

Afternoon Activities:
- Blocks
- Imaginative Play
- Image Posters
- Music & Movement
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- ART FRIDAY! -
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Morning Activities & Outside Time:
- Tissue Paper Shape Collage
- Finger Paint With Primary Colors
- Making Pairs

Afternoon Activities:
- Blocks
- Imaginative Play
- Image Posters
- Music & Movement
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- END OF THE WEEK THOUGHTS & OBSERVATIONS -
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February / Week 1 / Shapes - Colors & Matching

1/30 - 2/3

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- MONDAY -
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Morning Activities & Outside Time:
- Shape Bingo
- Making Pairs With Shoes
- School Time: home center, blocks

Afternoon Activities:
- Making Pairs
- Image Posters
- Shape Bingo
- Colors Around The House (pick a piece of colored construction paper and go on a hunt for things around the house that are the same color)
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- TUESDAY -
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Morning Activities & Outside Time:
- Shape Bingo
- Puzzles Of 3 (cut images of people and animals from magazines into 3 pieces - work together to make a full match)
- Simon Says
- Set The Table (On butcher paper, outline plates, cups & utensils on the dining room table - work together to match the items and put them in their proper place)
- Colors Around The House (pick a piece of colored construction paper and go on a hunt for things around the house that are the same color)

Afternoon Activities:
- Blocks
- Imaginative Play
- Image Posters
- Music & Movement
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- WEDNESDAY -
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Morning Activities: Little Gym!
- Revisit Mon/Tues activities with remaining time after gym

Afternoon Activities:
- Blocks
- Imaginative Play
- Image Posters
- Music & Movement
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- THURSDAY -
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Morning Activities: Soccer!
- Revisit Mon/Tues activities with remaining time after soccer

Afternoon Activities:
- Blocks
- Imaginative Play
- Image Posters
- Music & Movement
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- ART FRIDAY! -
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Morning Activities & Outside Time:
- Colored Tissue Paper Collages
- Shape Mobiles
- Finger Painting With Primary Colors

Afternoon Activities:
- Blocks
- Imaginative Play
- Image Posters
- Music & Movement
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- END OF THE WEEK THOUGHTS & OBSERVATIONS -
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