More on Dinosaurs

We measured how many of our feet will fit in a dinosaur foot yesterday.Today we made dinosaur finger puppets with both plant and meat eating dinosaurs and put on a puppet show for the toddlers.

D is for Dinosaur!

Dinosaurs! (9/28 - 10/2)

Math

Measuring dinosaur feet – How many of my feet fit in a dinosaur foot is probably a reasonable question thought by kids. In class we will find out by measuring a giant dinosaur foot using our feet.

Language Arts

“Bones, Bones, Dinosaur Bones” by Byron Barton

“How Do Dinosaurs Say Goodnight?” by Jane Yolen

“Dinosaur Roar” by Paul Stickland

“Dinosaur Bones” by Bob Barner on DVD

“Saturday Night at the Dinosaur Stomp” by Carol Diggery Shields

Science

Dinosaur fossils - After reading “Bones, Bones, Dinosaur Bones” by Byron Barton we will talk about what fossils are and make our own dinosaur fossils with raw macaroni.

Art

Dinosaur Class Coloring Book

Dinosaur Puppets

Music

“I Wish I Were a Great Big Dinosaur”

(tune: Oscar Myer Weiner)

Oh I wish I were a great big dinosaur,

That is what I really want to be.

For if I were a great big dinosaur,

Everyone would run away from me!

ROAR!!!

More on Caterpillars

Each student made an egg carton caterpillar today in class. This is a picture of a few of them.

C is for Caterpillar

Caterpillar (9/21-9/25)

Art

Egg Carton Caterpillar

Paper Chain Caterpillar

Caterpillar Coloring Page

Music

The fuzzy little caterpillar went up into a tree,
spun his cocoon and then he went to sleep.
While he was sleeping he dreamt that he could fly,
when he woke up (sigh) he was a butterfly.

Science

Caterpillar Life Cycle
Egg: hand clutched tight like a fist
Caterpillar: index finger extended, scrunched, extended, scrunched,....
Chrysalis: index finger of one hand wrapped by other hand (like a hotdog)
Butterfly: with thumbs interlocked, fingers wiggle and do flying motion

Math

Caterpillar Measuring
Using Frank Schaffer's Caterpillar Measuring Activity, the child will go around the room measuring various things (your hand, pencil, crayon, the door, the table, etc.).

Bigger and Smaller
Each student will get a caterpillar of a various size. Students must work together to put them in order from smallest to largest.

“Very Hungry Caterpillar” Graph
Students will put their name on a piece of paper and put it above their favorite food that the caterpillar ate in the story “The Very Hungry Caterpillar.” We will discuss what food has the most and the least.

Language Arts

Books
“The Very Hungry Caterpillar” by Eric Carl
“Houdini the Amazing Caterpillar” by Janet Pederson
“The Crunching Munching Caterpillar” by Sheridan Cain

Beginning Sounds
Use the patterns of the foods above. Make cards with the beginning letters (a, p, p, s, o, c, i, p, s, s, l, s, c, w) of the foods. Have students match. To make this more difficult, place your food patterns in a pocket chart, say a sound, and then pick a student to come up and take one food item that matches the given sound!

Phonics With the Letter “C”

More on Butterflies

Each student made a unique butterfly using his or her hand prints yesterday.
These are our tissue paper butterflies that we made in French class today!

B is for Butterfly

Butterflies!!! (9/14-9/18)

ART

Butterfly paper plate puppet

Handprint butterfly – Students will use cut outs of their hands to make their very own butterfly.

SCIENCE

Butterfly life cycle book – Each student will create his or her butterfly lifecycle group as we discuss the different stages of a butterfly’s life.

Making Colors – Butterflies are so colorful, how can we replicate these colors? We will be learning through hands on experimenting how to make colors our of primary colors.

LANGUAGE ARTS

Butterfly coloring listening game – A worksheet where students have to listen in order to know what color to make each butterfly.

Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle

Book of “B” – As a class we will make a book of all things “B” to put in our class library.

MATH

Very Hungry Caterpillar days of the week – students will each make his or her own book of the days of the week, writing each day out. The book will feature art work from Eric Carle’s book “The Very Hungry Caterpillar”

MUSIC

Butterfly, Butterfly

(to the tune of "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star)

Butterfly, Butterfly,
Fly Away,
You were a caterpillar yesterday
Butterfly, Butterfly
You never stay,
Always flying to a new day.

More on Apples

These are the 3-D apples we made during art class yesterday. They came out amazing!
These are the fingerprint apple trees we made today. We used red finger-paint and the students fingers to make the apples on the tree. Then each student counted his or her apples and wrote the number in the blank space. So fun, and so cute!

A is for Apples

APPLES!!!

MATH

-Apple book, “I see ____ apples” 10 pages with 1-10 apples (enchantedlearning.com)

-Apple tasting graph

Each student will taste three different apples and vote on his or her favorite. We will then make a graph of the votes.

READING/STORY TIME

-Johnny Appleseed

-The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein

LANGUAGE ARTS

Make a class book about the applesauce making experience in small groups of 3-7.

We washed our hands. (Kids trace and cut their hand prints our of bright paper)

We washed the apples. (I cut a faucet shape out of gray paper and a few water drops out of blue and the kids cut red, yellow or green circles, free-hand, to put under the water)

We cut the apples. (Kids cut large red, yellow or green chunks of paper)

We cooked the apples. (I cut a gray pan on a hot plate and the kids cut apple colored paper that sort of is coming out the top)

We ground the apples. (I put the cooked apples into a food to take away the peelings so I cut a food mill out of gray paper and the kids make really fine apple colored chunks)

We added cinnamon and sugar. (Cinnamon is brown paper cut with a hole punch and sugar is clear glitter)

We ate the applesauce. Yum! (Kids draw pictures of themselves eating the applesauce)

ART

-3-D apple

-Fingerprint apple tree

These are special apples, Hanging on this tree. I made them with my fingerprints. They are a part of me!

-Johnny Appleseed puppet

SCIENCE

-Observe apples as they are cut and exposed to air

-Dissecting an apple

Have students hypothesize how many seeds, taste, etc.

-Make applesauce

MUSIC

-Johnny Appleseed song

(sing to Do you Know the Muffin Man)

Do you know the apple man, the apple man, the apple man?

Do you know the apple man? He planted apple seeds.

He wore a pot upon his head, upon his head, upon his head.

He wore a pot upon his head. His name was Johnny Appleseed.

John Chapman was his real name, his real name, his real name.

John Chapman was his real name; But, we call him Johnny Appleseed.

-Five Little Apples
(A Finger Play)
Five little apples lying on the floor,
I'll roll one away, and that leaves four.
(Make rolling movement with arms.)

Four little apples hanging on a tree,
I'll pick one off, and that leaves three.
(Pick an imaginary apple.)

Three little apples, I know what to do!
I'll put one in my pocket, and that leaves two.
(Pretend to put an apple in pocket.)

Two little apples sitting in the sun.
I'll pick one up, and that leaves one.
(Pretend to pick apple up off the floor.)

One little apple waiting in my lunch.
I'll eat it up with a crunch, crunch, crunch.
(Pretend to take a big bite.)

About Johnny Appleseed:

Johnny Appleseed was a legendary American who planted and supplied apple trees to much of the United States of America. Many people think that Johnny Appleseed was fictional character, but he was a real person.

Johnny was a skilled nurseryman who grew trees and supplied apple seeds to the pioneers in the mid-western USA. Appleseed gave away and sold many trees. He owned many nurseries in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Kentucky, Illinois, and Indiana, where he grew his beloved apple trees. Although he was a very successful man, Appleseed lived a simple life. It is said that as Johnny traveled, he wore his cooking pot on his head as a hat!

Johnny Appleseed was born in Leominster, Massachusetts, on September 26, 1774. His real name was John Chapman, but he was called Johnny Appleseed because of his love for growing apple trees.

Johnny died at the age of 70; he is buried in Fort Wayne, Indiana. He had spent 50 years growing apple trees and traveling to spread his precious trees around his country.

Our New Blog

Parents,
Welcome to our Pre-k class blog! You will find everything that is going on in our class on this blog. We will be posting weekly lesson plans as well as pictures of student work. Do not worry, we will not post any pictures of your children. Look for our first lesson post tomorrow.
-Honeybunch Pre-school