MRS. GATES’S CLASS NEWS
“If you can dream it, you can do it.” – W alt Disney
SOME GOOD BOOKS:
THEME: Animal Habitats
Week of: April 25-May 13
SOME OF OUR ACTIVITIES:
*Create animal masks (Lion, Zebra)
*Make animals using pattern blocks
*Beginning sound sorting game
*HWT: magnetic boards, play dough, mini chalk boards (wet, try dry)
with letters (take turns picking a letter card from a bag)
*Sort animals by Habitat
*Create animal puppets (Frog, Raccoon)
*Measure (and compare) animals
*Sort animals varying characteristics
*Count zebra stripes
*Use Wikki Stixs (worms) to create numbers
*Duplicate, Extend, and Create patterns (using foam fish and
pattern cards)
*Use Light Table to observe and compare animal x-rays
*Games (Turtle Picnic, Squiggle Worm, Gone Fishing, Bear Bingo):
turn-taking, fine motor, and reinforcing concepts
IMPORTANT DATES: *May
*May
*May
*May
5 – Afternoon Class field Trip to the Stratford Farm
5 – Morning Class NO SCHOOL
20 – Super Games (afternoon class)
26 – Last Day of Preschool
LETTER OF THE WEEK: Review
POEM: The Waves on the Beach
SENSORY TABLE: Soil (forest habitat) and Water (pond
habitat)
*Who’s Home Is This? Julie Murphy
*In the Small, Small Pond by Denise Fleming
*In the Tall, Tall Grass by Denise Fleming
*Where Once There Was a Wood by Denise Fleming
*Splash by Ann Jonas
*Who Lives in the Forest? by Lisa L. Ryan-Herndon
*The Busy Tree by Jennifer Ward
*Log Hotel by Anne Schreiber
*Who Lives Here? by Pamela Hickman
*Over in the Grasslands by Anna Wilson & Alison Bartlett
*Safari Sounds by Susan Ring
*We’re Going on a Lion Hunt by Margery Cuyler
*Starry Safari by Linda Ashman
Giraffes by Catherine Ipcizade
*Honey…Honey…Lion! by Jan Brett
SONGS: *5 Speckled Frogs
*Little White Duck
*Going on a Bear Hunt
*I’m a Little Zebra
ASK YOUR CHILD:
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*to list some different types of habitats…what do the habitats
look like?...what types of animals live there?
Gross Motor: Simple Games – i.e. parachute w/ locomotor
lesson, “What Time Is It Mr. Fox?”