Monday - What can you hypothesize on what we will see if we go to a ball park?
Tuesday - Have you ever been to a store that sells balls?
Wednesday - Lets connect ourselves to a ball.  Can you make your body into a ball?  How can you prove ot me that you can make your body into a ball?
Thursday - Lets make some observations what kind of animals play with balls?
Friday - Lets assess and apply all the concepts we know about the ball study?  What's your favorite things to do with balls?  Why do you like to do that.

Center Time

Arts and Crafts
Power Balls – The students will make their own rubber bouncing balls.  They will then play with them to test them if they roll and bounce.

Gumball Machines – The students will make a gumball machine using pom poms and a trace and cut a circle template.  The students would have to count how many pom poms were used to complete their gumball machine.
 
Solar System – After reading the book Me and My Place in Space the students will be able to paint their own solar system.  The students will be able to use a solar system kit that includes foam balls.  After the balls dry from the paint the students will be able to make a mobile.  The students will be able to hang the foam balls with string on a wire hanger.
 
Water Bead Stress Balls – The students will be able to make their own stress balls.  The students will be able to use balloons, water beads, a funnel, and water.  The students will be able to pick a balloon of their choice.  The students will be able to put the funnel in the balloon and fill the balloon up a little bit with water beads.
 
My Favorite Ball Ornament – The students will be able to make their own ball ornament.  The students will be given a round plastic ornament that they will be able to paint and decorate to make it their favorite ball?

Dramatic Play
The students will be able to make a sports ball store.  The students will be provided with different balls for them to sell in their store.

Blocks and Building
The students will be able to set up the ramps and balls exploration set.  The students will be encouraged to create and test ramps by rolling balls on them.  The students will be shown that they can also use standard unit blocks or other sturdy supports to create different ramps.

The students will be prompted to test the pathways and ramps with different balls.  They will be guided to experiment with different ramp heights and connections between ramps.  How does changing a ramp's height and connections between ramps.  The students will be provided with additional text objects such as tennis balls, marbles, rubber balls, or small cars. 

Science
Provide some slightly deflated balls and bike pumps.  Work the children to inflate and deflate balls.  Provide paper bags and other bags to try to add air to experiment with air.

Provide scales to weight balls.  Use balance scales and actual scales.

The students will be able to blow with a straw different colored pom poms that are covered in paint across their paper.

Library / Writing
The students will be able to write ball words from a piece of sentence strip to a dry erase white board with a dry erase marker.

Math and Manipulatives
The students will play a mini basketball number game.  The teacher will use an empty and clean Tide Pods orange container that now looks like a basketball.  The students will be able to roll a dice and then throw that many pom poms into the container.

Bowling Pin Clip Cards - Students will use clothespins or paper clips to indicate the correct answer on these clip cards.  Clip cards for counting the bowling pins.

Two - Piece Puzzles - Students will put together these two - piece puzzles for matching bowling pins and numbers.  Puzzles counting 1 - 10

Count to Ten Line - Up Puzzles - Students will use the numbers 1 - 10 to put their puzzles together.

Bowling Counters - This math activity is to build fine - motor skills.  There are hole in each of the bowling cards, the students will have to sort the items, match them to the correct number and string or simply lay them on the table in the number order.

Sand and Water
The students will be able to search in the sand for alphabet ping pong balls.

PLEASE SEND YOUR CHILDREN IN WITH COMFORTABLE CLOTHES THAT THEY ARE ABLE TO PUT ON AND OFF THEMSELVES.  PLEASE PRACTICE DRESSING, BUTTONING, AND ZIPPERING WITH YOUR CHILDREN AT HOME, AS WE ENCOURAGE INDEPENDENCE IN DRESSING.

SHEETS AND BLANKETS WILL BE SENT HOME AT THE END OF THE WEEK.  PLEASE BE SURE TO WASH THEM AND RETURN THEM ON MONDAY.

CHECK YOUR CHILD'S SCHOOL BAG DAILY FOR ANY NOTES.

IF YOU HAVE NOT DONE SO ALREADY PLEASE SEND A COMPLETE CHANGE OF CLOTHING IN A PLASTIC SHOEBOX FOR YOUR CHILD.

IF YOUR CHILD HAS AN ACCIDENT IN SCHOOL, PLEASE SEND IN REPLACEMENT CLOTHING. 

PLEASE REMEMBER TO LABEL ALL OF YOUR CHILD'S BELONGINGS WITH THEIR NAME AND PRE - K 3

MONTHLY NEWSLETTERS ARE SENT HOME MONTHLY

W EEKLY NEWSLETTERS ARE SENT HOME WEEKLY

AS WE ALL KNOW THE COLD WEATHER DAYS ARE QUICKLY APPROACHING.  PLEASE DRESS YOUR CHILD APPROPRIATELY FOR THE COLD WEATHER (JACKET, HAT, SCARF, GLOVES)

ALSO, WE ARE WORKING ON HAVING YOUR CHILD GAIN THEIR INDEPENDENCE.  PLEASE PRACTICE AT HOME WITH YOUR CHILD ON HOW TO PUT ON AND TAKE OFF BUTTON AND ZIPPER THEIR JACKET.

 

During inclement weather PreK will be dismissed in the auditorium. 
WE WILL CONTINUE PRACTICING FIRE DRILLS.  WE ASK THAT YOU DISCUSS WITH 
YOUR CHILD THE IMPORTANCE OF FIRE DRILLS AND BEING PREPARED FOR SCHOOL
EMERGENCIES.

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7:45-8:15 Arrival /Breakfast/Table Toys
8:15-8:30 Morning Meeting
8:30-10:30 Center Time
10:30-11:00 Hand Washing /Lunch
11:00-12:00 Gross Motor
12:00-1:00 Hand Washing/Setting up for Rest/Rest
1:00-1:15 Snack
1:15-1:45 Center Time
1:45-2:05 Afternoon Meeting/Music & Movement
2:05 Dismissal

On Wednesday, November 27, 2019, we will be having a Thanksgiving Feast at 11:00a.m. in the classroom, with the children.  If you would like to donate a dessert we would greatly appreciate it.  If you would like to donate, please send in desserts by Wednesday, November 27, 2019.  Parents, you are welcome to come.  Please remember one parent per child.  No siblings.

 

4 - Olivia's Birthday

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