Letter knowledge
Children will practice writing their first name with a pencil.
Review:
Explain that we will practice writing our name with pencil on a piece of paper. Offer a demonstration, if appropriate. See the Day 2 activity for this week for an example.
Provide each child with a piece of paper, pencil, and his/her name card. Remind children to look at their name card as a reminder. Encourage children to write as much of their first name as they can. Some children may wish to write their last name in addition to their first name. Some children may wish to practice writing their first name multiple times on the paper.
Number knowledge
Children will broaden their ability to organize information on a chart.
Review:
Offer the Week 29, Day 3 activity to review how to organize information on a chart.
Engage children in preparing and interpreting a chart on the type of transportation children used for getting to the child development program today.
Be Prepared: Create a four-column chart with the four transportation pictures in separate columns at the bottom of the chart. Markers may be used for making an X mark if Bingo dotters are not available. Add the following title to the chart: How We Got to Our Center.
Open the session by reminding children that we are practicing how to put information on a chart and learn what the information tells us. Explain that today we will find out how each of us got to the child development center this morning. Display and describe the chart prepared for today. Encourage children to name each type of transportation pictured in the chart. Today we will learn how many of us got to the center using one of these types of transportation.
Invite children, one or two at a time, to use the Bingo dotter (or marker) to put a dot (or X mark) above the type of transportation used to get to our center. After all children have made a mark on the chart, lead children in counting together the marks above each type of transportation. Point to each dot (or X) as children count. Remind children that the last number counted tells us how many. Write at the top of each column the numeral that represents the number of marks in each column.
Engage children in a discussion of what we can learn from our chart:
Motor development
Children will practice kicking a ball from a stationary position.
Review:
Offer the Week 31, Day 4 activity to review kicking from a stationary position.
Engage children in kicking a ball toward a target from a stationary position.
Be Prepared: Today’s activity is designed for outdoor use. The activity may be adjusted for indoor use if necessary. Provide foam balls or punch ball balloons for indoor use. Identify an open wall for children to use when kicking their balls. The activity plan calls for four children to kick during the same turn, but you may wish to alter this arrangement. Provide targets for each of four children by drawing four large squares at the bottom of the wall or large squares on four pieces of chart paper that can be taped to the wall. Use ropes or some other means to designate lines on the ground about five feet from the wall for children to stand behind. Arrange for an adult to help with the activity.
Remind children that we kick a ball by using our foot to move the ball away from us. Emphasize the following steps and invite a volunteer child to demonstrate each:
Explain that today we will kick toward a target. Point to and describe each of the targets and the lines that children are to stand behind. Determine and then describe the procedure for retrieving balls after they are kicked.
Arrange children into four groups and describe their respective lines and targets. Place one ball in front of each line. Invite the first four children to kick the ball toward the target. It is okay if the ball does not hit the wall inside the target. It is also okay if children make several small kicks to get the ball to the target. After the first four children have kicked and retrieved their balls, organize the balls for the next group of four children to kick. Continue until all children have an opportunity to kick.
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Getting Along with Others
Social-Emotional
Skill and Goal
Relationship skills
Children will strengthen their understanding of how friendly behaviors are a way to be kind to others.
Materials
Needed
*Printables provided
Key
Concepts
Review:
Offer the Week 8, Day 2 activity to review how being friendly is a way to be nice and helpful to others.
Engage children in a discussion of pictures that show instances of children being friendly.
Introduce and read the book. Use your own words to describe illustrations. At the conclusion of the reading, invite pairs of children sitting next to each other (one pair at a time) to select a picture from the basket and describe how it shows a child, or two children, being friendly. Encourage the pair to show the picture to others in the group. Then invite the entire group of children to describe whether they have ever been friendly (or seen someone be kind) in this way.