April 2010

Skills to work on this month (work it into the lessons): Recognizing and writing the #10, days of the week, continue cutting out shapes

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March 29-April 4: Spring Break (No Preschool)

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Jana P (Group A) Deanne (Group B)

T-April 6th: Rain/Clouds/Weather-- basics of the water cycle (try a demonstration), make a chart, (some ideas, more ideas)

Th-8th: Rainbows--(one of my favorite lessons of the year)make fruit loop rainbows, make rainbows with prisms/mirrors/water, whatever many different ways you can (I got cheap plastic prisms at Michaels so that I could just send them home with their own , tie dye shirts, talk about the colors in the rainbow (see last year's recap for lots of ideas)

Tara (Group A) ??. (Group B)


F-9th: Rainy Day Fun (even if it's nice): Watch a movie (or play games), eat popcorn, and just pretend it's raining (maybe have everyone bring an umbrella or rain coat to go for a walk in the "rain")

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Lara (Group A) Andrea (Group B)

T-13th: Farms/Farmers--where does our food come from? , what do farmers do?, what kinds of things come from a farm, some more ideas, great puppet templates (color or black & white--at the end of the web page),  fun ideas,

Th-15th: Little Red Hen (working hard)--have everyone help grind wheat (with hand wheat grinder), make bread, talk about working hard and doing their part, masks, more visuals, make your own butter, lesson with visuals


All Preschool Groups---Karen

F-16th: Frying Pan Park

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Adelia (Group A) Mina (Group B)


T-20th: Tadpoles/Frogs--"Growing Frogs", talk about the changes they go through, play leap frog, (here are some ideas)

Th-22nd: Flowers and other plants: What do plants need to grow? what are the parts of a plant (show a real plant if possible), have them plant their own seed

Jana P (Group A) Kylee (Group B)

F-23rd: Plain old fashioned playdate!

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Tara (Group A) Kylee (Group B)


T-27th: Transportation/Traffic Lights--how do we get around, compare it to the olden days, what do the colors of the traffic light stand for, maybe have car races

Th-29th: Auto/Street Safety--using seatbelts, sitting in car seats, not bothering parent while driving, crossing street safely, play red light/green light, make traffic light treats (with colored candy)

All Preschool Groups--Lara


F-30th: Field Trip to Pizzeria Uno--9:30 at the Uno in Merrifield. (small pizzas for each of the children are part of the trip, we need to decide if we want to get a pizza or two for the adults and whether to order the kids' drinks). I talked with Kelly (a manager) 703-645-9590

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