CYCLE 4 OWL Week #3, BB Week #18
Days 11-15 Materials
Sand & water
Book Area
Art Table
CENTERS
Digging for Hidden Treasure: sand, butt (including gold & silver if
possible), small beads, plastic tiles, sieves, small scoops, shovels, dippers,
small bowls
Add books with colorful fruits, vegetables, flowers and animals on
Wednesday
Continue Paper Collage Posters of Frits, Vegetables & Flowers
Cutting Out Paint Swatches: envelope, markers, scissors, shoebox,
paintings with marked off section of colors from the Easel activity Mixing
Paint & Saving New Colors
Easel
Mixing Paint & Saving New Colors: paint (red, blue, yellow, white,
black), white construction paper, palettes, cup of water, thin paintbrushes
Puzzles &
Pattern Colored Blocks & Colored Mosaic Tiles with Design Cards:
Manipulatives pattern blocks, mosaic pegs, peg boards, design cards
Dramatic Play Scooping Ice Cream & Yogurt: empty ice cream containers of different
flavors, plastic ice-cream scoops, small dishes, add yogurt containers later
in the week for new fruit flavors
Writing
Continue Drawing & Labeling Pictures with Colored Pencils
Center
Alphabet Letter Labels for Color Alphabet Book: assortment of
alphabet picture books, paper, small alphabet charts
BB Hands-On Place Scenes: counters, Numeral Cards
Math
Shape Pictures: Shape Sets, Pattern blocks
Memory Number: Dot cards, Numeral cards
SMALL GROUPS
Mixing Food
Coloring on
Paper Towels
Naming &
Labeling Paint
Colors
Matching
Color Words &
Color
Swatches
Fruit, Flower
and Animal
Puzzles
Building
Blocks
Continue
Paint swatches created during Center Time, 2x8 white paper, large
paperclips, markers, scissors, shoebox
6-8 very familiar color swatch & word sets (red, black, brown, yellow, pink,
purple, orange, green)
Several puzzles of fruit, flowers, & animals of distinctive colors
Snapshots: counters, paper plate, cloth
Memory Number: Dot cards, Numeral Cards
CYCLE 4 OWL Week #3, BB Week #18
LARGE GROUP
Story readings Dear Juno Picture cards #66
The Lion & the Little Red Bird
SWPL
Peter’s Chair
Songs: Apples & Bananas, Looby Loo, Come on Join the Game, The
Green Grass Grows All Around, Head, Shoulders, Knees & Toes, What
Are You Wearing?, The Barnyard Song
Poems: #7 Five Little Owls, #16 Hands on Shoulders, #1 Ten Little
Fingers, #3 Stand Up
Alphabet Memory Pocket Chart Game: Alphabet Memory Pocket chart,
upper & lower case alphabet sets
Building
Blocks
Books: Max’s Dragon Shirt, Dear Juno, Cat’s Colors, The Lion & the Little
Red Bird
Snapshots: counters, paper plate, cloth
Guess My Rule: Shape Sets
LTAI/LFOAI
Numeral Jump: Numeral Cards
Color Names Inspired by Objects: The Lion & The Little Red Bird, The
Tortilla Factory, crayons, colored pencils
Distinctive Colors of Plants; Fruits, Vegetable, & Flowers: The ion &
The Little Red Bird, Rabbits & Raindrops, Eating the Alphabet,
Vegetables in the Garden, seed/bulb catalogs
Waiting: Dear Juno
Appreciating Others: The Lion & the Little Red Bird
Distinctive Colors in Animals: The lion and the Little Red Bird, Rabbits
& Raindrops, Chickens Aren’t the Only Ones