Miss Gabby’s Class Email: gmckearin@dmusd.org Classroom phone number: (858) 755-1060 x 3851 Classroom Website: http://www.dmusd.org/domain/834 Theme of the week: Rainbows Letter of the week: Ss (sailboat, seahorse, sandwich, sea lion, sun, sunglasses) Color of the week: Purple Books of the week: Purple (BIG BOOKS- color of the week) S: Seal’s Silly Sandwich – Dorothy J. Sklar (letter of the week) The Colors – Monique Felix Mouse Paint – Ellen Stoll Walsh What Makes a Rainbow? – Betty Schwartz Painting a Rainbow – Lois Ehlert Music, Movement and More – Thomas Moore Music of the week: Wish list Song(s) of the week (Finger plays): Please log on to www.amazon.com and search for “Miss Gabby Preschool” wish list by entering gmckearin@dmusd.org. This will have a list of all the toys and supplies that we would like for our classroom. Take me out to the ball game Dancing Song(s) (movement): Story about Sammy Tuned into Learning (music therapy): Who questions What's the weather (supplies for the classroom): Speech Corner What we are Learning About this Week: Theme: Rainbows and A Pot of Gold Song/Fingerplay: Itsy Bitsy Spider Music Therapy: Action (Tuned Into Learning CD - E.B.’s Book - #1) Book: What Makes A Rainbow? By Betty Ann Shwartz Green Room: Multi-syllabic words (3, 4 and & 5) Red Table: helping verb “is” - The noun “is” + verbing (iPad + sentence strip) Yellow Table: Answering what do you see? - “I see a ___.” (use Brown Bear Book and flannel board) Blue Table: generalization of helping This week we will continue to work on colors. In the story mouse paint, some white mouse find different jars of red, blue and yellow paint. They discover that when they mix red and blue they get purple, when they mix yellow and blue they make green and when they mix red and yellow they make orange. We will be mixing colors in class to make different colors. We will also be learning about rainbows and naming all the colors of the rainbow. verb “is” - The noun “is” + verbing during play