Transportation

We started the week with a definition of Transportation: Things that go and take you from one place to another.

We then made a list of types of transportation.

The next day, we read the book: The Big Book of Things that Go.  This gave us even more ideas to put on our list.  We then added to our list.

The next day we Sorted the list into Land (green marker with grass lines), Water (dark blue waves), and Air (light blue clouds).  

The students also did a sort as their morning table time from http://www.preschoolheaven.com.  It was called the "land air sea sort."

Students also wrote their names with cars. I wrote their names in large yellow letters (to be the yellow lines on the road) and they had to drive their cars on the yellow lines.  When I was writing the letters I made sure to describe the ways in which I was making/forming the letters so they could work on correct letter formation.  

Classroom Jobs

After my most recent training in Conscious Discipline, they told us we need to have a job for each individual child in the class.  It is to help them feel included, a part of the school, and like they make a difference.  I searched and searched for a job chart that had 20 jobs of which a 1/2 day 4k could actually use.  It was touch and and didn't find one I really liked, so I made my own.  I really like the choices and the responsibility it gives the kids.  I also gave them a lot of the jobs I find myself doing over and over but I shouldn't have to.

If you have any questions on what one is or would like one a little different, please let me know!




                               Free Jobs Printable

Pumpkins & Halloween

On Monday we did a haunted house math activity.  Students cut out the ghosts (it helps if you tell them to cut the whole border first then cut them apart).  They then count the dots in the windows and put the corresponding ghost on the window.

Click here for the free printable

We watched how pumpkins grow with 2 videos:

We then practiced the life cycle of a pumpkin yoga to the above video.

Seeds

Vines grow longer and longer and longer

Blossoms Bloom, they are yellow

Little pumpkins start

Big Pumpkins grow on the vine

On Halloween we did a variety of activities, the children able to choose where they wanted to go.  If they did not choose to go there or take time to go there, that was their choice, but then that was the only thing they were going to do.  Choices were:

Halloween Safety Book

Decorate a Pumpkin

Decorate a Cookie

Halloween Bingo

Reading Halloween/Fall Books

We also watched this Shapes/Halloween Video

Finally, students said what they were going to be for Halloween and we worked together as a class to write some of the sound we heard.