Lesson Plans 10/29/12 - 11/2/12

Songs:            Falling Leaves

                        If you want to be an owl

Sensory: Play dough

Monday
Book: Mouse Paint

Circle: Mixing Colors   

Art: Marble Paint

Wednesday
Book: Franklin’s Pumpkin

Circle: Animal Dice Game

Art: Pumpkins

Friday
Book: Pumpkin Baby     

Circle: One of these things is not like the other     

Art: Leaf Print Painting

Songs 10/29 - 11/2

FALLING LEAVES
Tune: "London Bridges Falling Down"
 
Pretty leaves are falling down, falling down, falling down.
Pretty leaves are falling down, all over town.

Some are orange and some are brown, some are brown, some are brown.
Some are orange and some are brown, watch the leaves fall down.

Some are yellow and some are red, some are red, some are red.
Some are yellow and some are red, leaves fall on my head.

IF YOU WANT TO BE AN OWL
Tune:  “If You’re Happy And You Know It”
If you want to be an owl, shout – Who! Who!
If you want to be an owl, shout – Who! Who!
Then you get to sleep all day
And at night you get to play.
If you want to be an owl, shout – Who! Who!

Photos!!

These photos are in no particular order but they highlight some of the unique and engaging activities we do in our classroom. Enjoy! 

This is the tree that all the children worked together to create over several days.



This is ice melting using colored (plain) water and clear salt water. The children were able to experiment and see that the salt water melted the ice better but that the colored water was easier to see on top of and in the cracks and fissures in the ice.



Spontaneous story time.

Group play - the children decided on their own to play together on the seesaw and came up with their own way of letting everyone fit.

This project teaches both sorting and fine motor skills and uses simple household materials like a muffin tin and tongs. You can do this at home with beads, buttons, or even dry pasta dyed with food coloring.

More science fun! The children made a mountain in the sand box and I showed them how baking soda and vinegar combine to bubble and froth like a volcano.

Important Dates

Monday 10/29/12

Kristin will be out of town. Michelle will be here and Dara, a preschool teacher that Kristin used to work with, will be substituting.

Wednesday 11/7/12

We will be having our first field trip, to Bookworm, a small bookstore here in Camarillo. We will need parent volunteers to drive. Please let Kristin or Michelle know if you will be available that day. If you are not driving, you MUST leave a carseat for your child to use on the field trip. We will not have extra carseats available.

Monday 11/12/12

Veteran's Day - No Class