Week 2 : Jungle

 For more ideas check out Brightly Beaming Preparatory Curriculum

Theme: Jungle

Vocabulary word: Vines

Shape: Square (continued from last week)

Color: Green

Number:2

Letter:B

Nursery Rhyme:

Field Trip: Mesker Park Zoo and Bontanic Garden, Evansville Indiana

  

Highlights include; Turning our playroom into a jungle, creating a jungle obstacle course by using cushions, pillows, chairs, blankets etc.  Acting out different jungle animals according to the sound of the music in Carnival of the Animals by Saint-Saëns, wiring craft monkeys on vines, creating lots of jungle puppets and putting on a show, learning to write the letter B in green shaving cream, cutting out squares, reading lots of jungle books, and visiting the zoo!

"Roaaar"

Sorting, counting, making messes, and learning to clean up

Week 1: Cows

The C. family is currently using some ideas from Brightly Beaming Resources to help add a bit more structure to get through the approaching cold winter days. For 26 weeks they will recognize a theme, shape/color, number, and letter with a corresponding field trip.

2.5 year old A poses in front of his cow spots he taped onto the wall

Theme: Cows.

Vocabulary word: Calf

Shape: Square

Number: 1

Letter: A

Nursery Rhyme: Hey Diddle, Diddle

Field Trip: Smiley Cattle 

Highlight of week 1. include; sticking "cow spots" all over the play room, milking a latex glove, making our own cheese (ricotta), drawing the letter 'A' in yogurt, adding 1 to the number notebook, eating breakfast at chickfila, using puppets to act out Hey Diddle, Diddle, and a field trip to Smiley farm to observe cows.

Beef Eaters- No toys for you

Coming to a plate near you!

Cows do in fact say, "moo."

MoooOooo