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Ms.
Brow’s class is a small group of three and four year old students that
receive individualized instructions and modifications.
Our
classroom instruction is organized around weekly themes that are
centered on books recommended by the county’s special needs preschool
department. A copy of each week’s vocabulary words & pictures, songs,
recipes, and a newsletter are sent home each Monday. The list of the
books that we will be learning about is listed below.
Literacy Themes for 2007 – 2008
Date Book Title
Author
8-13 to 8-17 If You Take a Mouse to School
Laura Numeroff
8-20 to 8-24 The Napping House
Audrey Wood
8-27 to 8-31 All By Myself
Aliki
9-4
to 9-7 Here Are My Hands
Bill Martin & John Archambault
9-10 to 9-14 Do Dinosaurs Get Well Soon?
Jan Yolen & Mark Teague
9-17 to 9-21 My Nose, Your Nose
Melanie Walsh
9-24 to 9-28 My Five Senses
Aliki
10-1 to 10-5 Skeleton Hiccups
Margery Cuyler
10-8 to 10-12 Go Away Big Green Monster
Ed Embereley
10-15 to 10-19 Glad Monster, Sad Monster
Ed Embereley
10-22 to 10-26 The Little Old Lady Who
Wasn’t Afraid of Anything
Linda Williams
10-29 to 11-2 Apples and Pumpkins
Ann Rockwell
11-7 to 11-9 Fall Leaves Fall
Zoe Hall
11-12 to 11-16 I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Pie
Alison Jackson
11-19 to 11-20 Lunch
Denise Flemming
11-26 to 11-30 Gingerbread Boy
Paul Galdone
12-3 to 12-7 All You Need For A Snowman
Alice Schertle
12-10 to 12-14 When Winter Comes
Nancy Van Laan
12-17 to 12-21 Joseph Had a Little Overcoat
Simms Taback
1-8
to 1-11 The Mitten
Jan Brett
1-14 to 1-18 Time to Sleep
Denise Flemming
1-22 to 1-25 Polar Bear, Polar Bear
Bill Martin
1-28 to 2-1 Dear Zoo
Rod Campbell
2-4
to 2-8 Valentine’s Day at the Zoo
Nadine Bernard Westcott
2-11 to 2-15 Valentine Mice!
Bethany Roberts
2-20 to 2-22 Big Red Barn
Margaret Wise Brown
2-25 to 2-29 Barnyard Banter
Denise Fleming
3-3
to 3-7 The Rain Came Down
David Shannon
3-10 to 3-14 The Bridge Is Up
Babs
Bells
3-17 to 3-21 Bunnies On The Go
Rick Walton
3-24 to 3-28 Wheels On The Bus
Raffi / Wickstrom
3-31 to 4-4 Mother Goose
4-14 to 4-18 The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Eric Carle
4-21 to 4-25 Waiting For Wings
Lois Ehlert
4-28 to 5-2 Over In The Garden
Jennifer Ward
5-5
to 5-9 Wide-Mouthed Frog
Karma Wilson & Joan Rankin
5-12 to 5-16 Frog In The Bog
Keith Faulkner
5-19 to 5-23 One Duck Stuck
Phyllis Root
**Essential questions are available if requested**
2007 – 2008 Preschool Supply List
Please send the following items daily:
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Backpack
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Extra change of clothing to be kept
in the bottom of the backpack
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Enough undergarments for one school day
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Sack
lunch or lunch money
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Juice
or juice money (for snack time)
Please bring these items to be kept at school:
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1
container of liquid hand soap
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1
container of hand sanitizer
(no water needed like Purell)
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4
containers of baby wipes (refill
packages are fine)
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3
containers of Lysol Sanitizing Wipes
or Clorox Disinfecting Wipes
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4
boxes of facial tissue
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Tri-fold small red and blue plastic rest mat
(for the full day students only)
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Beach
towel (for the full day students only)
 Ms. Brow’s Preschool Newsletter
10-1-07
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Our book for the week…
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Skeleton Hiccups
by: Margery Cuyler
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This simple story begs to be read aloud. With a recurring "hic,
hic, hic," Skeleton attempts the day's business: he gets up,
takes a shower, polishes his bones, carves a pumpkin, rakes the
leaves, and plays ball with Ghost. When the traditional remedies
don't work, Ghost makes a face and shouts "Boo!" at his friend,
but to no avail. Finally, clever Ghost confronts Skeleton with a
mirror, frightening the hiccups right out of him and sending
them "hic, hic, hic"-ing over the hills.
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At Story Time, the class will practice sequencing the steps to
growing a jack-o-lantern. We will discuss our favorite treats
to receive when trick-or-treating. We will also vote on and
graph the results of which shapes to make our jack-o-lantern’s
facial parts.
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We are also singing “Skeleton Bone Ditty” and learning the rhyme
“Five Little Pumpkins.” We even have 5 real little pumpkins to
use with our rhyme. |
Academic Readiness…
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Letter of the Week- D d
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Character- Daisy Dragon
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Book related to Letter of the Week: Count the Puppies by
Carloyn Dee
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After we read our D book, we are going to add dots to a dog
picture just like the dalmations in our book.
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We will stamp D’s on our D d papers this week.
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We will play dominoes again and work on our math skills.
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Alpha Beats’ verbal cues for writing the capital letter “D” are
“long line down, big hop around, D.”
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In addition to all of the other ways that we practice making
D’s, we have new mini sized individual magnetic writing
boards. We will write our letters on them and use specially
made wooden pieces stamps to form each letter. These new items
go with one of the handwriting programs that we are using,
Handwriting Without Tears. |
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Cognitive Centers…
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Folder Games: vocabulary matching, colored pumpkins, counting
skeletons, sorting sizes of Halloween objects and pumpkins, and
visually discriminating details of jack-o-lanterns, ghostly
shape matching, alphabats and pumpkin letter games
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Other: category tubs (household objects and food), practicing
prepositions with a box and a skeleton.
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Worksheets for the month: Silly Squares, Nosey triangles, A
Halloween Handful, and Trace a Jack-o-lantern
Structured Play…
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We are playing “Pin the Heart on the Skeleton.” This is great
practice for all of those birthday party games.
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We will also play a Pumpkin Concentration game. Emphasis will
be placed on the concept of same and different as well as on
practicing our memory skills.
Gross Motor Time…
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We will practice BOO bowling ( the pins look like ghosts.)
Extra items…
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We are cooking “Boo Brew” and carving our jack-o-lantern on
Wednesday. |
Fine Motor Projects…
(All of these art projects are related to elements of our book.)
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Monday – Students cut and glue together a skeleton picture using
Q-tips and construction paper.
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Tuesday – Students make paper balls and cover them with tissue
paper to form ghosts. Then they add eyes to finish the project.
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Wednesday- Students tear apart newspaper and ball up the pieces
to stuff in a paper bag. When the bag is full, they paint the
rounded bag orange to form a pumpkin. Students practice cutting
out and gluing on leaves.
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Thursday - Students cut, color, and glue together 2 pumpkin
pages. One is the outside shell and the other has strings and
seeds glued in it. It helps us remember what the inside of our
pumpkin looked like.
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Friday- Students finger paint with red and yellow on a pumpkin
cut out. They will not oly practice their writing skills and
enjoy the sensory experience, but they also get to see how the
colors mix together to make orange.
Special Lunch…
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John Michael’s parents are providing another pizza party for the
class on Tuesday! |
This page was last updated on
10/08/07
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