Ashlee Auchter 2-3yr olds Assistants: Melissa Perkins, Celeste Timmons Theme: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, Dessert Summer Week 12: August 5th – August 9th Monday: August 5, 2013 Morning Circle: Good Morning Greeting, Attendance Check-In & Simple Finger play Songs. Book: “If You Give A Pig A Pancake” By: Laura Numeroff Extension Activity: Cooking. Piggy Pancakes Small Group Circle Time: Today we will read the story “If you give a pig a pancake”. This is a story about a pig who eats a pancake with sticky syrup which makes her think of all kinds of other things she wants to do around the house, we will follow her silly adventures and create our own pancakes using frozen pancakes, a toaster oven, bananas, strawberries, grapes and maple syrup. Yum! Music and Movement: “” Ashlee Auchter 2-3yr olds Assistants: Melissa Perkins, Celeste Timmons Theme: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, Dessert Summer Week 12: August 5th – August 9th Tuesday: August 6, 2013 Morning Circle: Good Morning Greeting, Attendance Check-In & Crazy Colored Creatures. Book: “10 Little Rubber Ducks” By: Eric Carle Extension Activity: Fluffy Ducks. Today we will create a fluffy duck using a pre-drawn duck shape, and premixed puff paint using food dye, Elmer’s glue and shaving cream. We will add yellow or white puff paint for feathers on our ducks and glue on an orange bill and webbed feet. Small Group Circle Time: Today we will read the story “10 Little Rubber Ducks”. This is a sweet story about a bunch of rubber duck toys that get lost out at sea when getting shipped on a boat. The 10 little ducks slowly drift apart and encounter new sea creatures along the way. This story uses prepositions to describe which way the duck went. At the end the last little rubber duck becomes part of a real duck family and squeaks happily ever after. Music and Movement: 5 Little Ducks with props Ashlee Auchter 2-3yr olds Assistants: Melissa Perkins, Celeste Timmons Theme: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, Dessert Summer Week 12: August 5th – August 9th Wednesday: August 7, 2013 Morning Circle: Good Morning Greeting, Attendance Check-In & Emotion Dice. Book: “Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What Do You Hear?” By: Eric Carle Extension Activity: Animal Matching Game. Today we will complete an animal matching file folder game. We will match an animal to its shadow and name. The children will be instructed to look at the shape of the animal and the word at the bottom to help them match it up. There will be 10 animals to match and each child will have 2 turns to match an animal with their shadow. Small Group Circle Time: Today we will read the story “Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What Do You Hear?” This is a story about a polar bear that is at the zoo and listening to new animal friends that create different sounds we will try to re-create that sound with each new animal we hear in the story. We will meet animals like a lion, a hippo, a flamingo, a zebra, a peacock, a walrus and a jaguar. Music and Movement: Animal Action Ashlee Auchter 2-3yr olds Assistants: Melissa Perkins, Celeste Timmons Theme: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, Dessert Summer Week 12: August 5th – August 9th Thursday: August 8, 2013 Morning Circle: Good Morning Greeting, Attendance Check-In & Crazy Colored Creatures. Book: “The Very Quiet Cricket” By: Eric Carle Extension Activity: Sounds At Home Bingo Today we will play a game using our ears, a CD and picture cards. We are going to play sound bingo by listening to different sounds on a CD and look at the pictures on our play board and see if we can guess the sound and what it belongs to (i.e: Sink, Lawn Mower, Hair Dryer, Toilet, Tea Kettle) Small Group Circle Time: Today we will be reading the story “The Very Quiet Cricket”. This is a story about a cricket who cannot chirp. He tried very hard to make sounds like his other bug friends but he could not. The little cricket meets other bugs that make different sounds and continues to practice rubbing his wings together to create his chirping sound. At the end of the story the little cricket meets another cricket and finally learns how to chrip! Music and Movement: Movement Medley Ashlee Auchter 2-3yr olds Assistants: Melissa Perkins, Celeste Timmons Theme: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, Dessert Summer Week 12: August 5th – August 9th Friday: August 9, 2013 SCHOOL IS CLOSED TODAY FOR A TEACHER IN SERVICE DAY. SEE YOU ON MONDAY!!