Week of: 2



Week of: 5.26.08-5.30.08 Teaching Team: Samantha Peterson – Lydia Saldivar – Harlen Jacobs Classroom: Rm. 142

|Community Happenings/Announcements: | |

|Reminder we will be CLOSED Monday May 26th for Memorial Day |Teacher Prep/materials: |

|Happy Last Day Wiatt Friday May 30th – Sesame Chinese post test sometime this week | |

|Wed. May 28th join the Parent Planning Committee meeting from 4:45-5:45 |Superheroes |

|The Nurse Practitioners will be here next week. |Musical Instruments |

| |Vacations/Trips |

| |Insects/Bugs |

|Symbolic Languages: |Language Arts/Literacy: | |

| |Literacy: | |

|(creative work, music, movement) | | |

| |-writing the names of places we would like to visit with our families or have already | |

|-one-on-one representations of superheroes from our superhero book and other outlets |visited – creating stories about the trips we have taken | |

|-creating superheroes based on the descriptions we create earlier in the week |-lists of what our perfect superhero would look like and the types of powers he/she should | |

|-bug tracings at the light table and then using materials to create our own |possess | |

|representations of those bugs |-matching game with all of the Chinese words and pictures | |

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| |Children’s Interests: | | |

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| |Superheroes | | |

| |(wrestlers-princesses-cartoon | | |

| |characters-etc.) | | |

| |Musical Instruments | | |

| |Vacations/Trips | | |

| |Insects/Bugs | | |

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|Social Studies/Social Development | |Physical Knowledge: | |

|Dramatic Play: | | | |

| | |(math, science, outdoors) | |

|-adding keyboards, microphones, drums, and tambourines to | | | |

|incorporate into the dramatic play area | |-moving our bird feeder upstairs to the outdoor classroom (perhaps | |

|-bean bag toss game – counting how many land in each bin | |we’ll have better results up there) | |

|-creating our own musical instruments with materials found in our| |-spending more time outdoors working on obstacle courses, playing on | |

|classroom and throughout the building | |the playground, and looking for bugs/insects to take into our classroom| |

| | |and create representations | |

| | |-continuing to build bird houses out of real wooden materials | |

| | |(incorporating real hammers, saws, etc.) | |

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|Emerging/Ongoing Ideas: |Family and Community Involvement: | |

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|Cars – blocks – dancing – obstacle courses – superheroes & wrestlers |Weinland Park Civic Association will be meeting May 28th. | |

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|Other/Small Groups. |Thank you to all of the families that have donated materials to our classroom – your | |

| |continued collaboration helps to provide authentic learning experiences for your children!!| |

|Every Friday a small group will go to the library from 10:45-11:15 for story groups | | |

|and presentations with our librarian Michelle. |If anyone has any extra swimsuits, beach towels, or floaty rings/devises we would welcome | |

| |them for our vacation ideas. | |

Red = creative work, Orange = music/movement, Brown = literacy/language, Purple = dramatic play, light blue = math, green = science, dark blue = outdoors

All areas of curriculum are interwoven and inter-related, rather than experienced in isolation.

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