School Bells Ring - Friends and School Helpers - Day 3

Morning Circle (AM 9:00-9:30..PM 12:30-1:00)

1. Song Can

2. Calendar

3. Who is you're friend? We'll go around the circle and find out who each others friends are. We'll talk about how each person in preschool is a friend too, even Miss Chelsea. Friends help each other also, and in school we all need to help each other. If someone gets hurt, we should help them. If someone needs help at a center, we should help them. If someone wants to play with us or share a toy, we should play and share. We should also help by taking care of the classroom and helping clean up our messes. If an accident happens, it's OK, just tell Miss Chelsea. If nobody helps in preschool, it wouldn't be a very good school.

4. Read the story, "My Teacher is My Friend"

Learning Centers (AM 9:30-10:15..PM 1:00-1:45)

*Creative Art: Finger Painting - make your own fingerpaints by checking out Miss Chelsea's recipe on the recipe page link list!!

*Messy Table: Scooping beans

*Cut and Color Table: Friendship Bracelets - beading bracelets or necklaces.

*Dramatic Play: Puppets - Encourage the children to us puppets to show and/or tell about their school experiences and school rules and just role play.

*Blocks - Block Building with cars - cars will be added and children will be encouraged to make highways and bridges for them.

Snack (small groups come at different times to eat during Self-Selected Activities. Unless we are making our snack, then we will eat it during small group.)

*Snack: Muffins and water.....We'll be making muffins today during Closing Circle today. Check out the recipe on the recipe page links.

Outside Play (AM 10:20-10:30..PM 1:50-2:00)

Closing Circle (AM 10:30-11:00..PM 2:00-2:30)

*Make our yummy class muffins, while they are baking, we'll finish the rest of closing circle and end our day by enjoying our delicious muffins.

*Story

*Music and Movement - We'll dance to the song The More We Get Together as a class and then with partners.

* If there is time, we will have a whole bunch of letter tiles layed out in front of us. Each child will get to find the first letter of his/her name. The teacher will help them if they need it. The teacher will also encourage the kids to find more letters in their names!!

School Bells Ring - Schedule and Rules - Day 2

Morning Circle (AM 9:00-9:30..PM 12:30-1:00)

1. Song Can

2. We will talk about the schedule we will follow each day, centers and what we will do at each one.

3. We will set up class rules together, as the teacher writes the rules on chart paper and reads it back to the kids as we go. We may end up making one easy-to-remember rule: "You can do anything that doesn't hurt yourself, someone else, or Miss Chelsea's property." It pretty much covers EVERYTHING!

4. We'll take a tour of the room, providing names for materials and areas.

5. Story

Learning Centers (AM 9:30-10:15..PM 1:00-1:45)

*Creative Art: Watercolor Painting *Messy Table: Scooping beans

*Cut and Color Table: Collage - materials such as scraps of paper, glue, tape, glitter, sticky dots, fabric scraps and markers will be provided and the children can create a collage.

*Dramatic Play: Puppets - Encourage the children to us puppets to show and/or tell about their school experiences and school rules and just role play.

*Blocks - Block Building with cars - cars will be added and children will be encouraged to make highways and bridges for them.

Snack (small groups come at different times to eat during Self-Selected Activities. Unless we are making our snack, then we will eat it during small group.)

*Snack - pretzels and water

Outside Play (AM 10:20-10:30..PM 1:50-2:00)

Closing Circle (AM 10:30-11:00..PM 2:00-2:30)

*Story

*Music and Movement - We'll play marching music and invite the children to march in a parade with instraments.

*To finish whole group, we'll play the name game.....If the teacher calls your name, that child jumps up and says one other person in the room that they know. We'll go into talking about what each of us likes to do and what our favorite things are.

School Bells Ring - First Day

Morning Circle (AM 9:00 - 9:30...PM 12:30-1:00)

1. Get name tags to each child. Children can work on puzzles or look at books until everyone arrives and settles in. After everyone has arrived, Miss Chelsea will have pictures of each child (taken on Back-To-School Night) and the class will help me match the pictures to each child.

2. Song Can

3. Ask the children if they've been to school befoe and encourage them to tell stories about their experiences.

4. We'll talk about activities we will do at school every day.

5. Miss Chelsea will the flannel board story, "My First Day of School". Learning Centers (AM 9:30-10:15..PM 1:00-1:45)

*Cut and Color Table: Crayon Drawings - Crayons and drawing paper will be availabel for the children to draw freely.

*Messy Table: Sand - Children will be able to use their senses as they discover through sand.

*Creative Art: Playdough

*Dramatic Play: Puppets - The children will be encouraged to use puppets to show and/or tell about their school experiences.

*Blocks - Block Building - Wooden blocks will be available for the children to explore and manipulate with! Snack (small groups come at different times to eat during Self-Selected Activities. Unless we are making our snack, then we will eat it during small group.)

*Snack - Colored goldfish and juice.

Outside Play (AM 10:20-10:30..PM 1:50-2:00)

Closing Circle (AM 10:30-11:00..PM 2:00-2:30)

*Story

*We'll talk about our names and what letter starts with each of our names. We will get to do a tactile activity with our names together and get to know the feel of each of our names!

*Music and Movement - "Circle Dance" from Getting to know Myself by Hap Palmer

*To finish whole group, we'll talk about some of the things we did and learned. The students will draw a picture of their first day of school.