Year 2: August 2014

Day #1

Preschool Schedule

11:30-12:00 Small Group Reading

1. Book you read 2. Phonemic Awareness 3. Math Skills

12:00 Preschool Starts

1. Come in & hang up coat 2. Answer chalkboard question

3. Find seat number or shape

12:00-12:05 Writing Practice

1. Complete writing assignment at desk 2.Pass off with teacher 3. Teach child what they will be practicing in tomorrows writing assignment after they pass of today's assignment 3. Give child card to find station

12:05-12:15 Welcome Activity

1. Find your station 2. Play the game until circle time begins 3. Put stations away 4. Find name on mat 5. Tell teacher what color your name is today 6. Find coordinating hand pointer 7. Point to letters in name and say them out loud 8. Sit on Mat

12:15-12:25 Story Time

1. Bookwalk Detectives: title, author, how to hold the book, words vs. picture, word vs. sentence vs. paragraph, directionality, picture prediction, beginning vs. middle vs. end 2. Introduce & teach comprehension skill 3. Read book 4. Practice comprehension skill T&W test comprehension skill Th

12:25-12:45 Circle Time

Jobs & Flip Books 1. Calendar, Season, Weater, Sally & Nick, Days of the Week, Months of the Year 2. Colors 7. Emotions 8. Of the Day or Week 9. Alphabet

12:45-1:00 Snack Time

1:00-1:15 Recess & Movement

1:15-1:30 Make & Take

1:30-1:45 Math Block

Numberline, Graphing, 100s Chart, Number of the Day, Shapes, Money, Clock

1:45-2:00 Music & Drama

2:00-2:30 Small Group Reading

2014 Calendar

August

26-28 Welcome

September

2-4 Numbers

9-11 Shapes

16-18 Colors

23-25 Alphabet

30-2 Camping

Raspberry Picking

October

7-9 Migration & Birds

14-16 Fall

21-23 Pumpkins

28-30 Halloween/Bats

Trick or Treating @ Rest Home

November

4-6 Times of Day

11-13 Nutrition

18-20 Thanksgiving

25-27 No School

Rotella Bread Factory

December

2-4 Sequencing

9-11 Winter

16-18 Christmas

23-25 No School

30-1 No School

Gingerbread Display

January

6-8 The Circus

13-15 Opposites & Patterns

20-22 Community Helpers

27-29 All About Me

Mounted Stables Downtown

February

3-5 Families

10-12 Valentine's Day: Feelings

17-19 Where I Live

24-26 Space

Donuts with Dads

Planetarium

March

3-5 No School

10-12 Spring Break: No School

17-19 Jungle Animals

24-26 Dinosaurs

31-2 Measuring

April

7-9 Spring

14-16 Zoo Animals

21-23 Music

28-30

Omaha Symphony @ the Zoo

($6 includes admission to Zoo)

May

5-7 Mother's Day

12-14 Plants & Trees

19-21 Summer

26-28 Graduation

Lauritzen Gardens

(under six free; $7 adults)

Graduation

Year 2

Week #1 Lesson Plans

Friday, August 29, 2014