Weekly Planning Form

Week of: December 10th 2012 Teacher: Ms.Bonvetti Blocks Building block towers with peers Making car tracks with peers Building a house for the people manipulatives Theme: Winter Christmas

Dramatic Play/Housekeeping Kitchen props & making meals Review where items go all week +Put out Christmas Wrapping ShopWrapping presents/boxes Library Exploring books with peers or individually Teaching reading books the students choose informally Music and Movement Music and Me Unit 4- Lets Play Lessons 1 & 2

Manipulative Ornament Lacing Number mats for counting and sorting Big VS Little Patterns with colors and Shapes/ Christmas themed Discovery/Science Sorting Objects and Sizes- Holiday Themes

Art -Shaving Cream drawings (sensory) - Hanukkah Menorah- hand prints with blue & yellow paint, fingers are the candles. -Decorate Christmas Stockings -Making Ornaments Sand and Water Practice cutting a Straight Line in the water table

Cooking

Computers -Counting and color review on PBS kids and Kids cbc -Starfall for morning circle

Outdoors Digging in the sand Playing pretend with typical peers Walking on stilts with teacher assistance Having a catch with peers or teachers Working on gross motor skills

Family/Community Involvement *Send home letter for Dramatic Play Gift Wrapping Shop center

Weekly Planning Form

Planning for Groups- December 10th 2012 Monday Morning song, Group Time (songs, stories, games, counting friends, calendar, Letter Mm discussion, etc.) introduction, Music & Me Lets Play Sound Bible.Com Story Time Tacky the Penguin

Theme: Winter-Christmas
Tuesday Morning song, counting friends, calendar, letter Mm -Winter Animals Pattern Llama Llama Holiday Drama Wednesday Morning song, counting friends, calendar, letter Mm -Bigger Smaller Santa Sort Llama Llama Holiday Drama Thursday Morning song, counting friends, calendar, letter Mm -Music & Me Lets Play Friday Morning song, counting friends, calendar, letter Mm -Stocking Matching

A Jacket I Wear in the Curious Georges Snow Christmas

Small-Group Activities

-Sorting Ornaments Short to Tall -Counting Tree 1-5 with color lesson

-Bigger Smaller Santas sorting -Wrapping presents in Dramatic Play center

-Letter match snow hats capital to lower case -Decorating Stockings with glitter, scraps, markers

Sorting Christmas Ornaments Short to Tall -Countdown to Christmas break -I have a good friend game on carpet

-Matching pairs of Christmas Stockings -Tracing Shapes. Play-Doe Numbers -Search Game with mini Santas! -Big Fun CD dancing

Special Activities
(Field trips, special events, ect.)

-BINGO song on smartboard -Putting out Wrapping Shop

Speech 9:00-9:30 -Counting Ornaments on counting mats Music Therapy10:!5 -Search Game with mini Santas!

OBJECTIVES Fine MotorI can begin to control small muscles in hands during art projects and writing activities I can begin to coordinate eye-hand movement Cognitive DevelopmentI can begin to observe objects and events with curiosity I can begin to show persistence in approaching tasks Logical ObjectivesI can begin to compare and measures objects I can begin to recognize patterns and can repeat them I can begin to use one-to-one correspondence I can begin to use numbers and counting Representation and Symbolic ThinkingI can begin to take on pretend roles and situations I can begin to make believe with objects Listening and SpeakingI can begin to express self-using words and expanded sentences I can begin to understand and follow oral directions I can begin to answer questions