Saturday, April 26, 2014

Letter Y is for You

Day 1   Y is for You     Numbers Review    Money Review
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Circle Time:
  Morning learning songs.  Introduce letter Y and review letters A-X.  Read "My Y Book."  Review #’s 1-20.    Review the vowel song.   Begin blending consonants vowels.  Review money. 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.  Teach "Jesus Loves Me," which every child should eventually know.  I still sing it to myself occasionally-it's just a pretty and encouraging song! Teach songs/poems for Mother's Day Tea Party!  Read : "I Like Me!" by Nancy Carkson. This is a timely lesson for two of my students.  They both teared up due to embarrassment on Friday, so we had a long talk about it being okay to mess up, and it is good to be able to laugh at ourselves!  Hopefully this story will help because it discusses embarrassing moments and how to handle them with grace.  Good lesson for adults as well!

Snack
Bible: Bible Devotional
Free Play
Group Lesson:  All About Me booklets.  A few years ago, I picked up little booklets with this title.  I will choose the pages I like and put them together into a booklet for my students to fill out.  When we are done, I will read each child's booklet out loud so we can learn more about each of us and what makes us unique and special!
Lunch/Rest:  Read two books while children relax, listen and enjoy! 
Gross Motor/Phys.Ed:  1.  Outdoor play if weather permits.   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:  Cut out a large letter Y from cardstock--yellow cardstock if you have it.  Provide yellow yarn for the kids to line the letter Y with the yellow yarn.  Preschool-aged kids love cutting the yarn into pieces, so they can cut the yard into whatever size pieces they like and glue them onto the letter Y to make a pretty Y!  Yay!
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Review/Pack up/Dismissal


from:  http://www.notimeforflashcards.com/2010/04/letter-of-the-week-8.html






Day 2   Y is for You     Numbers Review    Money Review
Sign In:  
Free Play in Learning Centers
Circle Time:
  Morning learning songs.  Introduce letter Y and review letters A-X.  Read "My Y Book."  Review #’s 1-20.    Review the vowel song.   Begin blending consonants vowels.  Review money. 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.  Teach "Jesus Loves Me," which every child should eventually know.  I still sing it to myself occasionally-it's just a pretty and encouraging song! Teach songs/poems for Mother's Day Tea Party!  Read a book about being yourself!
Snack
Bible: Bible story
Free Play
Group Lesson:  All About Me booklets. Yucky Foods Collage/Yummy Foods Collage
Lunch/Rest:  Read two books while children relax, listen and enjoy! 
Gross Motor/Phys.Ed:  1.  Outdoor play if weather permits.   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:  Blowing ink 'hair' with a straw!  Fun portraits double as an oral motor activity for lip seal, cheek tension, and tongue retraction.  Visit pinterest.com/arktherapeutic for more #oralmotor ideasI will give each child a piece of paper, drawing tool, and watered down paint.  They will be asked to draw a picture of their face and then add watered down paint as their hair. While the paint is runny, they will take a straw, blow through it, and make their hair go in different directions by blowing the paint via the straw.
Free Play
Review/Pack up/Dismissal


Day 3   Y is for You     Numbers Review    Money Review
Sign In:  
Free Play in Learning Centers
Circle Time:
  Morning learning songs.  Introduce letter Y and review letters A-X.  Read "My Y Book."  Review #’s 1-20.    Review the vowel song.   Begin blending consonants vowels.  Review money. 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.  Teach "Jesus Loves Me," which every child should eventually know.  I still sing it to myself occasionally-it's just a pretty and encouraging song! Teach songs/poems for Mother's Day Tea Party!  Read a book about being yourself.
Snack
Bible: 
Free Play
Group Lesson:  All About Me booklets.   What's Missing?  Testing our memory.  I will show the children various items and ask them to look at the items carefully and try to remember what they see.  Then I will ask them to turn around, facing away from the items.  I will take one of the items away.  Then I will tell the children to turn around, look at the items again and tell me what is missing.  I will give them a chance to be the one to "steal" an item from the pile and have the rest of us guess which item has gone missing.  
Lunch/Rest:  Read two books while children relax, listen and enjoy! 
Gross Motor/Phys.Ed:  1.  Outdoor play if weather permits.   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:  Melted Crayons or Shrinky Dinks
Free Play
Review/Pack up/Dismissal

Additional Ideas:
Below:  From Preschool Express
 OPPOSITES
Here are a list of words, can your child tell you the opposite word that starts with Y?
Old (Young)
No (Yes)
Whisper (Yell)
Me (You)
Today (Yesterday)


YES/NO GAME
Show your child hand signals for “yes” and “no”.
Arms stretched up like a Y for “yes” and hands on hips for “no”.
Ask him some questions and have him answer with these new hand signals.
Body Match Game
Play music and have the children work in pairs. Call out a body part that they need to match. If you say "Knees" the children need to make one or both of their knees touch the knees of their partner!

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