OCTOBER



EAST MEADOW PUBLIC SCHOOLS

WESTBURY, NEW YORK

CURRICULUM AREA PROJECT

Grade K - Literacy Through the Arts Re-Vamp

CAP writing staff:

Cristina O’Donnell, Kindergarten Teacher

Anna Trolio, Kindergarten Teacher

Jennie Re, Reading Teacher

2009-2010

Board of Education

Brian O’Flaherty, President

Abby Rothschild-Kaplan, Vice President

Steven Jacobs

Joseph Parisi

Marcee Rubinstein

Walter Skinner

Administration

Louis R. DeAngelo, Superintendent of Schools

Lynne Manourvrier, Asst. Superintendent for Curriculum and Instruction

Robert Gorman, Asst. Superintendent for Business and Finance

Anthony Russo, Administrative Assistant for Human Resources

Patrick Pizzo, Director of School Facilities and Operations

Mary Ann O’Brien, Assistant Business Administrator

TABLE OF CONTENTS

RATIONALE 2

SEPTEMBER 3

OCTOBER 4

NOVEMBER 5

DECEMBER 6

JANUARY 7

FEBRUARY 8

MARCH 9

APRIL 10

MAY 11

JUNE 12

WORKS CITED 13-15

RATIONALE

The purpose of this project is to create activities that promote the integration of music, movement and other artistic fields of study into the Literacy Through the Arts program.

It has been shown that through art, children who have attention problems can learn through drawing to stay on track for longer lengths of time. In order to achieve realistic drawings the students automatically learned to focus, concentrate, and problem solve. The Literacy Through the Arts program speaks directly to the theory of multiple intelligences. It promotes constructive ways to say what cannot be said and that problems can have more than one solution. Often academically challenged children will excel in artistic tasks.

This integration of artistic fields of study will help improve children’s self-esteem and their overall attitude towards school.

SEPTEMBER

|Songs/ Movement |Poems/ Art Activities |Books/Activities |

|“OFF TO SCHOOL WE GO” |“September” |Friends |

|Tune:  “The Farmer In The Dell” |By Brierly Ashour |By Helme Heine |

|Off to school we go, | | |

|Off to school we go, |When the goldenrod is yellow |ACTIVITY |

|It’s the first day of school. |And leaves are turning brown--- | |

|Off to school we go. |Reluctantly the summer goes |1. Draw a picture of one activity that the characters did |

|Time to meet new friends. |In a cloud of thistledown. |together. |

|Time to meet new friends. | |2. Label the picture. |

|It’s the first day of school. |When squirrels are harvesting |3. Use the sentence starter: |

|Time to meet new friends. |And birds in flight appear--- |“The friends _____________together.” |

|Time to work and play. |By these autumn signs we know |OR |

|Time to work and play. |September days are here. |1. Draw a picture of what you like to do with your friends. |

|It’s the first day of school. | |2. Label the picture. |

|Time to work and play. |ACTIVITY |3. Use the sentence starter: |

|Jean Warren | |“I like to __________with my friends.” |

|1. Teach song to children. |1. Students will draw autumn trees. |4. Share stories with the class. |

|2. Put words on chart paper. | | |

|3. Have children act out song. |2. Students will do leaf rubbings and add those leaves to |Frog and Toad are Friends |

| |their trees. |by Arnold Lobel |

| | |ACTIVITY |

| | | |

| | |1. What did Toad do in “The Story” to cheer up Frog? |

| | |2. Draw a picture and write a sentence telling how you once |

| | |cheered up a friend. |

OCTOBER

|Songs/ Movement |Poems/ Art Activities |Books/Activities |

| | | |

|“Halloween is Coming” |“Spin, Spider, Spin!” |In 1492 |

|Tune: “I’m a Little Teapot” |by Meish Goldish |by Jean Marzollo |

| | | |

|Halloween is coming. |Spin, spider, spin! |ACTIVITY |

|I like it the most. |Spin your web round and wide. | |

|I’ll be a goblin. |Spin your silky web with pride. |1. Use large blue paper. |

|You can be a ghost. |Greet the guests who come inside. |2. Have children draw waves on the paper. |

|When we get all dressed up, we will say. |Spin, spider, spin |3. Cut Styrofoam cups in half. |

|“Boo! It’s trick or treat today!” | |4. Have children draw a wooden ship on the paper. |

| |1. Write the poem on chart paper. |5. Glue the ½ cup on to the paper as the sail. |

|by Becky Valennick |2. Have the children come to the chart and circle the letter |6. Write the name of the ship on the bottom of |

| |s. |the page. |

|ACTIVITY |3. Give the children 8 in. squares of tag board. | |

| |4. Have them cut small slits in the sides. |Leaves |

|1. Put song on chart paper. |5. Give the children long pieces of white yarn. |By David Ezra Stein |

|2. Teach it to the children and have them act it out. |6. Have them wrap it around the tag board making sure the yarn| |

| |is secured in the slits on the edges of the tag board. |ACTIVITY |

|Columbus |7. Once the web is made, have the children draw a small | |

|Tune: “Row, Row, Row Your Boat” |spider, cut it out and glue it on the web. |1. Read part of the book. |

| | |2. Have children predict the ending. |

|Sail, sail, sail three ships ( move hands in wave motion) | |3. Discuss the changes in the setting. |

|Slowly through the sea. | |4. Direct students to draw the bear in all four seasons. |

|Nina, Pinta, Santa Maria, | | |

|Count them --- one, two, three (hold up fingers) | | |

| | | |

|Land, land, land they saw (cup hand over eyes) | | |

|After many days. | | |

|Hurray, hurray for Columbus (raise arm, as in a cheer) | | |

|The man who found the way! (clap hands) | | |

|by Cathy Wollery | | |

| | | |

NOVEMBER

|Songs/ Movement |Poems/ Art Activities |Books/Activities |

|“Turkeys All Around” | | |

|Tune: “Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star” |“ON THANKSGIVING DAY” |Ankle Soup |

| |  |by Maureen Sullivan |

|Turkeys, turkeys all around |Mother makes the dinner. | |

|On the fence, on the ground. |Grandma brings the pies. |ACTIVITY |

|On the haystack, on the chair. |Father carves the turkey. | |

|All around, everywhere. |And I will tell you why. |1. Read story to students. |

|Turkeys, turkeys all around. |Today is very special |2. Create a chart listing various acts of kindness. |

|Gobble, gobble what a sound! by Jean Warren |We're thankful, so we say, |3. Have children illustrate one of the acts. |

| |"Peace and love to everyone" |4. Let children complete the sentence: |

|ACTIVITY |It's Thanksgiving Day! |“I was kind when I_______.” |

|1. Have students color the turkey pattern. |by Jean Warren | |

|2. Use turkeys to act out the song. | |‘Twas the Night Before Thanksgiving |

|3. Add verses incorporating BOEHM concepts. |ACTIVITY |by Dav Pilkey |

|(In the barn, above the fence, near the pond etc.) | | |

| |1. Cut out the center of a paper plate. |ACTIVITY |

|Albuquerque Turkey |2. Brush glue all over the remaining ring. | |

|Tune: "Clementine" |3. Add colorful feathers to ring. |1. Discuss with the children how they celebrate |

| |4. Add the word, “Peace and Love to Everyone.” to the bottom |Thanksgiving. |

|Albuquerque is a turkey |of the wreath. |2. Read story highlighting vocabulary and making |

|And he's feathered and he's fine |5. Embellish with ribbon if desired. |text-to-self connections. |

|And he wobbles and he gobbles | |3. Look for pictures of favorite foods eaten on |

|and he's absolutely mine. | |Thanksgiving in magazines. |

|He's the best pet you can get yet | |4. Have children create a placemat including a plate and |

|Better than a dog or cat. | |utensils. |

|He's my Albuquerque turkey | |5. Glue pictures of favorite foods on to plate. |

|And I'm awfully proud of that. | | |

|He once told me, very frankly | |A Turkey for Thanksgiving |

|he preferred to be my pet, | |by Eve Bunting |

|not the main course at my dinner, | | |

|and I told him not to fret. | |ACTIVITY |

|And my Albuquerque turkey | | |

|is so happy in his bed, | |1. Have the children write and draw the people that came to |

|'Cause for our Thanksgiving dinner... | |their Thanksgiving dinner. |

|We had pizza pie instead. | |2. Label the picture. |

|Traditional Folk Song | | |

| | | |

|ACTIVITY | | |

|1. Have students color the turkey pattern. | | |

|2. Glue feathers on to the turkey. | | |

|3. Glue a popsicle stick on turkey. | | |

|4. Have students act out the song. | | |

DECEMBER

|Songs/ Movement |Poems/ Art Activities |Books/Activities |

| | | |

|“Five Little Gingerbread Men” |“My Gingerbread House” |The Gingerbread Baby |

| | |by Jan Brett |

|One little gingerbread man, lonely and blue, |I made a house of gingerbread. | |

|Met another lonely friend and then there were two. |It was so sugary sweet. |ACTIVITY |

| |It took me all day to make, | |

|Two little gingerbread men happy as could be, |But lasted just a week! |1. Have the children save milk containers from the lunchroom.|

|Found one hiding, and that made three. |Monday I ate the ceiling. |2. Cover them with vanilla icing. |

| |Tuesday I ate the floor. |3. Decorate them with candy to make the house that caught the|

|Three little gingerbread men running to the store, |Wednesday I ate the windows. |gingerbread baby. |

|There they bought another one and that made four. |Thursday I ate the floor. | |

| |Friday I ate the four walls. |Gingerbread Friends |

|Four little gingerbread men feeling so alive. |Saturday I ate the lawn. |by Jan Brett |

|Rounded up another, and that made five. |Sunday I licked up the crumbs. | |

| |My gingerbread house is done! |ACTIVITY |

|Five little gingerbread men having lots of fun. | | |

|Better get back home now that dinner is done! |by Dotti Enderle |1. After reading both stories, make a Venn Diagram to |

| | |compare and contrast the two books. |

|by Gail Nettles |ACTIVITY |2. Using a graphic organizer, have the children illustrate |

| | |the beginning, middle and end of the story. |

|ACTIVITY |1.Write the days of the week on sentence strips and have the | |

| |children put them in the correct order. |The Gingerbread Girl |

|1. Have the children act out the story like a play. | |by Lisa Campbell Ernst |

| |Or: | |

| |1.Have the children illustrate the poem highlighting the days |ACTIVITY |

| |of the week. | |

| | |1. Make a template of the Gingerbread Girl and have the |

| | |children color it in and make a list of the candies that they|

| | |would use to decorate it. |

| | | |

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JANUARY

|Songs/ Movement |Poems/ Art Activities |Books/Activities |

| | | |

|“Let’s Celebrate” |“January” | |

|Tune: “Frere Jacques” |January opens |Happy New Year Everywhere |

| |The box of the year |by Arlene Erlbach |

|Happy New Year, Happy New Year, (raise arms in cheer) |And brings out days | |

|Let’s celebrate, let’s celebrate. (clap hands twice) |That are bright and clear. |ACTIVITY |

|Goodbye to the old year, (wave goodbye with a sad face) |And brings out days |1.Have the children draw and write how their family |

|Hello to the New Year. (wave hello smiling) |That are cold and gray, |celebrated the new year. Include where the celebration took |

|Hurray, Hurray! (raise hands in cheer) |And shouts, "Come see |place and who participated in the celebration. |

|Hurray, Hurray! (raise hands in cheer) |What I brought today!" | |

| |by Leland B. Jacobs | |

|by Patricia Coyne |ACTIVITY |P. Bear’s New Years Party; A Counting Book |

| |Use brown construction paper with a box drawn on it. |by Paul Owen Lewis |

| |Have the children predict and draw what they may find in their | |

| |box this year i.e. riding a two wheeler, losing a tooth etc. |ACTIVITY |

| | | |

| | |1. Children can make their own counting book related to|

| | |the story. |

| | | |

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FEBRUARY

|Songs/ Movement |Poems/ Art Activities |Books/Activities |

| | | |

|“Mr. Groundhog” |“SNOWFALL” |White Snow Bright Snow |

|Tune: “Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star” |by Margaret Hillert |by Alvin Tresselt |

| | | |

|Mr. Groundhog in the ground, |Someone in the sky last night |ACTIVITY |

|Pop your head up look around. | |1. Select one character from the story and draw a picture of |

|Do you see your shadow? |Had an awful pillow fight, |how they prepared for winter. |

|Look high and look down low. | | |

|Mr. Groundhog in the ground, |And when I woke today I found | |

|Pop your head up look around. | | |

| |All the feathers on the ground. |Snow Day |

|by Deborah A. Roessel | |by Barbara M. Joosse |

| | | |

|ACTIVITY |ACTIVITY |ACTIVITY |

|Make a groundhog puppet on a stick. |1. Use light blue paper, cotton balls, and chalk or crayons to | |

|Slit a paper bag on the bottom so that the groundhog can pop up |make a winter scene. |1. Have the children use black paper and chalk to draw a |

|through the top of the bag. | |picture of what they like to do in the snow. |

| | |2. Have the children complete the sentence: |

| | |On a snow day I would like to_________. |

| | | |

MARCH

|Songs/ Movement |Poems/ Art Activities |Books/Activities |

|I SEE RAINBOWS | | |

|Tune: "Frere Jacques" |“CLOUD RHYME” |It Looked Like Spilt Milk |

|  |What’s fluffy white and floats up high, |by Charles G. Shaw |

|I see rainbows, |Like a pile of cotton in the sky? | |

|I see rainbows, |And when the wind blows hard and strong, |ACTIVITY |

|Way up high |What very gently floats along? | |

|In the sky. |What brings the rain, what brings the snow, |1. Give students dark blue paper. |

|They are red and orange, |That showers down on us below? |2. Pour small amounts of white paint on the paper. |

|Yellow, green and blue. |When you look up high in the sky, |3. Have students use straws to blow paint on paper forming |

|Purple, too. |What is that thing you see float by? |various shapes. |

|What a view! |                                    Adapted Traditional |4. Have students complete the sentence: |

|I see rainbows, | |“It looked like ________.” |

|I see rainbows, |ACTIVITY | |

|Way up high |1. Give students dark blue construction paper. |Looking For a Rainbow |

|In the sky. |2. Give students cotton balls. |by Mrs. McNeill’s Kindergarten Friends |

|They are made from sunshine, |3. Have students glue cotton balls onto paper to create cloud | |

|Shining through the rain. |shapes. |ACTIVITY |

|What a view |4. Have children create a picture with the “clouds” in the sky.| |

|In skies so blue! | |1. Have the children cut out pictures from magazines and make|

|by Jean Warren | |then into a large rainbow. |

| | |2. Have the children complete the sentence: |

|ACTIVITY | |Rainbows are __________ and ___________. |

| | | |

|1. Give students long pieces of various colored streamers. | | |

|2. Talk about the colors of the rainbow and their order. | | |

|3. Have students wave their streamers along with the song. | | |

|4. Have the students organize themselves in | | |

|ROYGBV order. | | |

APRIL

|Songs/ Movement |Poems/ Art Activities |Books/Activities |

| | | |

|April Fool’s Day |“The Call of Spring” |Spring is Here |

| | |by Taro Gomi |

|Giant, Giant Spider |When spring begins | |

|Tune: “Eensy, Weensy Spider” |Again to light |ACTIVITY |

| |Our happy world | |

|Giant , giant spider, |With colors bright, |1. Children will create an acrostic poem using the word |

|(hold hands high up in the air stand up on your tip toes) |The robins all come |FLOWER. |

|Crawling up your back |Back to see | |

|(be a spider crawling) |How beautiful |F__________ |

|Here, let me help you |The Earth will be, |L__________ |

|(raise your index finger) |With crocus gold |O__________ |

|Give your back a whack. |And daffodils |W__________ |

|(pretend to hit someone’s back) |Lighting meadows, |E__________ |

|It was very ugly, |Fields and hills; |R__________ |

|(make scary face) |With leaves of green | |

|So very mean and cruel. |And tulips gay, | |

|(make a mean face) |And birds arriving |Round and Round the Seasons Go |

|Aren’t you glad I saved you? |Every day. |by Rozanne Lanczak Williams |

|(make a happy face) | |ACTIVITY |

|Happy April Fool! |by Norman C. Schlichter | |

|(clap hands) | |1. Have the children make a picture with a large tree that |

| |ACTIVITIY |shows the four seasons that the tree goes through. |

|by Jean Warren | | |

| |1. Have students create a spring scene on their paper, |Spring Talk |

| |referencing the poem’s descriptions. |by Mitchell Sharmat |

| |2. Students will make flowers using colored tissue paper. |ACTIVITY |

| |3. Place flower on large construction paper. | |

| |4. Have students complete the following sentence: |1. Have the children act out a bud opening into a flower and |

| |“I like spring because___________.” |then turning into a leaf. |

MAY

|Songs/ Movement |Poems/ Art Activities |Books/Activities |

| | | |

|Hurray for May Day! |“Signs of Spring” |How DoYou Know It’s Spring? |

|Tune: “London Bridge” | |by Allan Fowler |

| |Tops are whirling, | |

|May Day’s here with sun so bright, |Kites are swirling |ACTIVITY |

|(children raise arms overhead like the sun) |In the windy sky; |1. Have the children draw a picture and complete this |

|Sun so bright, sun so bright. |Hoops are rolling, |sentence: Spring is a time |

|(shield eyes from the sun with hand over eyes) |Children strolling; |to __________ and __________. |

| |Surely spring is nigh. | |

|May Day’s here with sun so bright. |Brooks are flowing, |OR |

|(children raise arms overhead like the sun) |Grass is growing, | |

| |Birds are nesting, too; |1. Have students draw a picture of their favorite thing |

|Hurray for May Day! (raise hands to cheer) |Buds are breaking, |about spring. |

| |Flowers awak’ning; |2. Label the picture. |

|May Day’s here with flowers in bloom, |Spring’s come back to you! | |

|(Children raise arms overhead like the sun) | | |

| |by Mabel Niedermeyer |The Tiny Seed |

|Flowers in bloom, flowers in bloom. | |by Eric Carle |

|(children bloom from the ground like a flower) |ACTIVITY | |

| | |ACTIVITY |

|May Day’s here with flowers in bloom. |1. Have the children make an acrostic poem using the letters in| |

|(children stay standing up with arms raised like a flower) |the word SPRING. |1. Have students draw a picture of a flower and label the |

| |S_________ |parts. (roots, stem, leaves, flower) |

|Hurray for May Day! |P ________ | |

|(children raise hands to cheer and jump up and down) |R ________ | |

| |I _________ | |

|by Gayle Bittinger |N ________ | |

| |G ________ | |

JUNE

|Songs/ Movement |Poems/ Art Activities |Books/Activities |

| | | |

| | | |

|Stars and Stripes |School |The Night Before Summer Camp |

|Tune: “Row, Row, Row Your Boat” |When school lets out in June, I feel |by Natasha Wing |

| |As happy as can be. | |

|Wave, wave, wave the flag, |I hop and skip and jump and run |ACTIVITY |

|(wave a flag ) |And shout and laugh with glee. |1. Have the children draw a picture and write about the |

|As we march around. |I’m sure that I will never want |things that they are going to do over the summer. |

|(march around in a circle) |To go to school again, | |

|Hold it high to show our pride, |But when September comes around, |Clever Daddy |

|(hold flag high) |I always like to then. |by Maddie Stewart |

|It must not touch the ground. | | |

|(point to the ground) |by Iva Riebel Judy |ACTIVITY |

|Wave, wave, wave the flag, | | |

|(wave a flag ) |ACTIVITY |1. Children will draw a picture of themselves and their |

|Dear red, white and blue. | |father. |

|(hold flag close to your heart) |1. Draw a picture of the thing you will miss most about |2. Children will complete the sentence starter: |

|Stars and stripes forever bright, |school. |My daddy is clever because_______. |

|(wave a flag ) |2. Label the picture | |

|America to you! | |OR |

|(hold flag high) | |I love my daddy because_______. |

| | | |

|by JoAnn C. Leist | | |

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