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Circle Time: Morning learning songs.Introduce letter S and review letters A-:R. Read "My S Book." Introduce #19 and review #’s 1-18. Review the vowel song. Begin blending consonants with short e sound. Continue learning about the dime! Lately, I have been teaching the children some of the old-time songs and rhymes that I sung as a child. Thus far, we have learned "This Old Man," "Where is Thumpkin?", and "Hands On Shoulders." Now we will move on to "He's Got the Whole World in His Hands. This week we will learn a song about space:
The Solar System in Motion
(to the tune of "The Farmer in the Dell")
The Earth turns around,
The Earth turns around.
Once a day, every day,
The Earth turns around.
The Earth turns around.
Once a day, every day,
The Earth turns around.
The moon goes round the Earth,
The moon goes round the Earth.
Once a month, every month,
The moon goes round the Earth.
The moon goes round the Earth.
Once a month, every month,
The moon goes round the Earth.
The Earth goes round the sun,
The Earth goes round the sun.
Once a year, every year,
The earth goes round the sun.
The Earth goes round the sun.
Once a year, every year,
The earth goes round the sun.
~Meish Goldish from: http://www.canteach.ca/elementary/songspoems34.html
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Bible: " Build Each Other Up" from The Big Book of BIble Lessons for Crafty Kids: Therefore encourage one another and build each other up, just as in fact you are doing. 1 Thess. 5:11. Make Encouragement Pennants that say "You Can Do It"
Bible: " Build Each Other Up" from The Big Book of BIble Lessons for Crafty Kids: Therefore encourage one another and build each other up, just as in fact you are doing. 1 Thess. 5:11. Make Encouragement Pennants that say "You Can Do It"
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Group Lesson: Read a book about space: "Planets" by Jennifer Dussling from Scholastic. Discuss. Perhaps will read only half of this so we can discuss as we go. Then sing the "The Solar System in Motion" song once again, and the children should have a better understanding of the song. Lunch/Rest: Read two books while children relax, listen and enjoy!
Gross Motor/Phys.Ed: 1. Outdoor play if weather permits. We have kind of gotten into a routine where, when we play outdoors, the children want me to chase them and try to catch them. When our them of the week changes, I become whatever matches our theme and give chase! I have been a Dinosaur for letter D, a Gorilla for letter G, and a Horse for letter H thus far. Maybe for letter I Iguana might be appropriate! For the letter J, it is the perfect time to become the Giant in Jack and the Beanstalk and give chase! For letter K, I could be a King and give chase! Aerobics inside: I will put on some fun music and show the children some movements they can do for exercise: kicks, jumping jacks, side to sides, knee raises, hamstring curls--this is a little introduction to aerobics! Encouragement Exercise: Building a wall: Place a large sheet of construction paper up on a wall with sticky tack. Each child will take a turn building a "wall" with post-it notes. Each note is a stone on the wall. Continue building until the construction paper is full and the "wall" is finished. Then write on each post-it note ways we can build each other up--keep asking the children to think of ways to encourage someone. Each time a child makes a suggestion, they get to hop or skip around the room; write until all of the post-it notes are full.
Art/Fine Motor: Make a Sun: From: http://mrskarensclass.blogspot.com/2012/01/lets-fly-to-moon-or-jupiter.html. Since we quickly learned that the sun is the
center of our universe, we started off our week by doing a wonderful art
project of the sun! This is one of my personal favorites because even
though everyone uses exactly the same material, the final results are all different.
We started with a BIG round circle and added our paint. Next, we
covered it with clear plastic wrap. Here
comes the fun part . . . next we squish it! Everyone of course has their own technique. Some are gentle while
others literally beat the daylights out of it. Either way, the results
are amazing! We quickly plopped the wet sun onto a LARGE piece of black
construction paper and added the sun rays. OH MY! 
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Review/Pack up/DismissalDay 2 S is for Space No. 19 Dime
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Circle Time: Morning learning songs. Letter S and review letters A-:R. #19 and review #’s 1-18. Review the vowel song. Begin blending consonants with short e sound. Continue learning about the dime! Lately, I have been teaching the children some of the old-time songs and rhymes that I sung as a child. Thus far, we have learned "This Old Man," "Where is Thumpkin?", and "Hands On Shoulders," "He's Got the Whole World in His Hands. Practice song about space (This song will help the children understand how the earth works in conjunction with the moon and the sun. We ended up discussing this quite a bit yesterday. I told the children that if they can't remember if the moon rotates around the earth or the sun rotates around the earth, try to remember MM and SS = moon moves and sun stays. In other words, the moon moves around the earth, but the sun stays in one place, and the earth rotates around it,
The Solar System in Motion
(to the tune of "The Farmer in the Dell")
The Earth turns around,
The Earth turns around.
Once a day, every day,
The Earth turns around.
The Earth turns around.
Once a day, every day,
The Earth turns around.
The moon goes round the Earth,
The moon goes round the Earth.
Once a month, every month,
The moon goes round the Earth.
The moon goes round the Earth.
Once a month, every month,
The moon goes round the Earth.
The Earth goes round the sun,
The Earth goes round the sun.
Once a year, every year,
The earth goes round the sun.
The Earth goes round the sun.
Once a year, every year,
The earth goes round the sun.
~Meish Goldish from: http://www.canteach.ca/elementary/songspoems34.html
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Bible: Pray with all kinds of prayers, and ask for everything you need. Eph. 6:8: Coloring page "God Hears My Prayers"
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Group Lesson: Finish book about space: "Planets" by Jennifer Dussling from Scholastic. Discuss. Then sing the "The Solar System in Motion" song once again, and the children should have a better understanding of the song. Experiment with salt (didn't get to do this during rock week, so will go ahead and do it this week).
Lunch/Rest: Read two books while children relax, listen and enjoy!
Gross Motor/Phys.Ed: 1. Outdoor play if weather permits. We have kind of gotten into a routine where, when we play outdoors, the children want me to chase them and try to catch them. When our them of the week changes, I become whatever matches our theme and give chase! I have been a Dinosaur for letter D, a Gorilla for letter G, and a Horse for letter H thus far. Maybe for letter I Iguana might be appropriate! For the letter J, it is the perfect time to become the Giant in Jack and the Beanstalk and give chase! For letter K, I could be a King and give chase! Aerobics inside: I will put on some fun music and show the children some movements they can do for exercise: kicks, jumping jacks, side to sides, knee raises, hamstring curls--this is a little introduction to aerobics!
Large Motor Activities. From:
Dancing Comets
Materials:
·
3-4 foot long crepe paper streamer for each student
·
music
Comets are the remains
from the formation of stars and planets billions of years ago. They begin as
large chunks of rock and ice that
eventually are
pulled toward the sun. When a comet gets close enough to the sun, some of its
ice melts. The melted ice becomes a gaseous tail that trails away from the sun.
Help your students be comets by giving each child a crepe paper streamer. For
the first of our preschool space activities, play music and allow students to
dance around the room, trailing their streamers just like a comet with its
tail.
Art/Fine Motor: Earth Sun Catchers from: www.littlemozartspreschool.com. Begin by showing the children a photo or video on the computer of what our earth looks like from outer space.
Earth Sun
Catchers
These cute Earth sun catchers
make a great decoration for a sunny window.
Materials
·
Two sheets of wax paper per child
·
Small pieces of blue and green tissue
paper
·
Glue that has been thinned with water
·
Paintbrushes
·
An iron
·
Scissors
·
Hole punch and yarn
Procedure
Give each one piece of wax paper
and some colored tissue paper. Show them how to cover the wax paper with their
blue and green tissue paper. Then have them paint over the tissue paper with
the thinned out glue. Let the glue dry for a few minutes then place the second sheet
of wax paper over the tissue paper. Iron over the wax paper with a warm iron.
You can also just let glue dry on its own, skipping the ironing, but you will
have to wait longer to complete the project. When the glue has dried, help the
children cut the wax paper into a circle to make the Earth. When the sun
catchers are finished you can punch a hole in the top of the planet and tie a
small piece of yarn through it for hanging if you want.
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Day 3 S is for Space No. 19 Dime
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Circle Time: Morning learning songs. Letter S and review letters A-:R. #19 and review #’s 1-18. Review the vowel song. Begin blending consonants with short e sound. Continue learning about the dime! Lately, I have been teaching the children some of the old-time songs and rhymes that I sung as a child. Thus far, we have learned "This Old Man," "Where is Thumpkin?", and "Hands On Shoulders," "He's Got the Whole World in His Hands. Continue tol learn a song about space:
Circle Time: Morning learning songs. Letter S and review letters A-:R. #19 and review #’s 1-18. Review the vowel song. Begin blending consonants with short e sound. Continue learning about the dime! Lately, I have been teaching the children some of the old-time songs and rhymes that I sung as a child. Thus far, we have learned "This Old Man," "Where is Thumpkin?", and "Hands On Shoulders," "He's Got the Whole World in His Hands. Continue tol learn a song about space:
The Solar System in Motion
(to the tune of "The Farmer in the Dell")
The Earth turns around,
The Earth turns around.
Once a day, every day,
The Earth turns around.
The Earth turns around.
Once a day, every day,
The Earth turns around.
The moon goes round the Earth,
The moon goes round the Earth.
Once a month, every month,
The moon goes round the Earth.
The moon goes round the Earth.
Once a month, every month,
The moon goes round the Earth.
The Earth goes round the sun,
The Earth goes round the sun.
Once a year, every year,
The earth goes round the sun.
The Earth goes round the sun.
Once a year, every year,
The earth goes round the sun.
~Meish Goldish from: http://www.canteach.ca/elementary/songspoems34.html
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Bible: "Taller and Wiser" story about Jesus from "The Young Reader's Bible."
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Group Lesson: From: http://mrskarensclass.blogspot.com/2011/01/solar-system.html "Let's EACH make a giant solar system" Each day we discussed and made two planets. Each planet was made with a different craft method. First we made a giant sun with our famous "squishy painting). Next, we rubbed Mercury over some sandpaper. Venus and Jupiter were made with marble painting, while Mars was painted and sprinkled with grits. Uranus and Neptune were water colored, and the Earth and Venus were finger painted. Everyone loved seeing the "real" pictures (special thanks to my son, who let me use all his old childhood NASA photos) of the planets. Each child was also assigned a planet to be his/her. At the end of the week we were all calling each other by our planet names - On Friday we decided that it was time to put our creations all together. 
Lunch/Rest: Read two books while children relax, listen and enjoy!
Gross Motor/Phys.Ed: 1. Outdoor play if weather permits. We have kind of gotten into a routine where, when we play outdoors, the children want me to chase them and try to catch them. When our them of the week changes, I become whatever matches our theme and give chase! I have been a Dinosaur for letter D, a Gorilla for letter G, and a Horse for letter H thus far. Maybe for letter I Iguana might be appropriate! For the letter J, it is the perfect time to become the Giant in Jack and the Beanstalk and give chase! For letter K, I could be a King and give chase! Aerobics inside: I will put on some fun music and show the children some movements they can do for exercise: kicks, jumping jacks, side to sides, knee raises, hamstring curls--this is a little introduction to aerobics!
Art/Fine Motor: Rocket Names:
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