Costello Building Blocks- Weekly Happenings: October 3-7, 2016

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Weve been busy putting our social and emotional skills to work.
Here are some things were working on:

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Social and Emotional Development

Taking turns
Sharing
Putting our feelings into words
Using words rather than yelling or crying when we become
upset
Resolving conflicts when they arise
Being nice and treating others kindly
Helping others when they need help
Putting on our own jackets
Practicing zipping our own jackets
Discussing good choices vs. bad choices and learning why its
important to make good choices

Puzzles:

Self-identity: Children have a positive self-identity.

Sense of competence: Children feel they are competent.
Emotions: Children recognize, label, and regulate their feelings.
Empathy: Children demonstrate empathy toward others.
Community: Children participate in the community of the classroom.
Building relationships: Children build relationships with other children and adults.
Cooperative play: Children engage in cooperative play.
Moral development: Children develop an internal sense of right and wrong.
Conflict resolution: Children resolve social conflicts.

Approaches to Learning: initiative, engagement, reflection, planning, problem

solving, reflection
Social/Emotional: self-identity, sense of competence, community, building
relationships, cooperative play , conflict resolution
Physical: fine motor skills, body awareness
Language/Literacy: comprehension, speaking, vocabulary
Math: shapes, spatial awareness, counting, part-whole relationships, data analysis
Science: observing, classifying, experimenting, communicating ideas

In small group today we worked on floor puzzles. Each child was

partnered up and given a puzzle to complete. The partners worked
together to problem solve and get their puzzle pieced together. Lots
of language and communication was used to put together ideas and
strategies to get the puzzles completed.

1. Same & Different Game:

In our groups we played the same and different game. The teacher
picked 2-3 children to stand up at a time while the rest of the children
worked to find things that were the same with the children standing
and things that were different. Some examples of our findings were
theyre all girls, theyre all wearing striped shirts, two have
blonde hair and one has brown hair, theyre all the same size, two
have black pants and one has jeans.

Language: comprehension, speaking, vocabulary, concepts about print

Physical: fine motor, large motor
Math: number words, counting, shapes
Science: observing, classifying, communicating ideas, drawing conclusions, natural
and physical world
Social Studies: geography

Chicka Chicka Boom Boom

Physical: fine motor skills

Language/Literacy: comprehension, vocabulary, alphabetic k knowledge
Math: data analysis
Creative: art
Science: observing, classifying, communicating ideas
Social Studies: diversity, decision making

After reading the book Chicka Chicka Boom Boom, children helped
the letters back up the tree. They used letter stickers to stick to their
tree. As children were adding the letters to their trees, they were
encouraged to share with the friends at the table the name of the
letter that they were working on, and the sound that the letter makes,
if they knew it!

Costello Building Blocks- Weekly Happenings: October 3-7, 2016

Categories: an outdoor game

All the children line up side by side except the player who is
the caller.
The caller stands at a distance from the lined up players
The caller then calls off different categories (ex. Everyone
wearing red or if your birthday is in June, etc.)
If the childrens category is called, they must run to the other
side as fast as they can
Whoever arrives last is out for that round
The last player in becomes the new caller and the game
starts over

Physical: large motor, healthy behavior

Social/Emotional: cooperative play
Science: observation, classifying, drawing conclusions

Rhyme TimeAfter reading One Duck Stuck and Do Mice Eat Rice?, we
discussed what makes a rhyme. We discussed that rhymes have the
same sound, especially the same ending sound. We discussed that
words that rhyme may begin with different letters and sounds but
end with the same sound. After this discussion, we went back through
the book Do Mice Eat Rice and picked out the words that rhymed
on each page. Children also had the chance to share words that they
knew that rhyme.
Large
Group

Songs & Fingerplays:

Birthdays
Had A Little Rooster
Itsy Bitsy Spider
Days of theWeek
Lets Be Friends
The Cool Head Shoulders Knees and Toes
Old MacDonald
Mary Had a Little Lamb

Discussion & Activities:

Literature:

Language & Literacy:

Phonological Awareness: children identify distinct sounds in the spoken language

Letters and their names

Letters and their sounds
The Little Red Hen- Nursery Rhymes
Think Before You Act- Regina Burch
Things I Do With My Friends- Peter & Sheryl Sloan

Approaches to Learning: engagement

Social/Emotional: sense of competence, community
Physical: gross motor skills, fine motor skills, body awareness
Language/Literacy: comprehension, speaking, vocabulary
Math: number words and symbols, counting, part-whole relationships
Creative: music, movement
Social Studies: diversity

Costello Building Blocks- Weekly Happenings: October 3-7, 2016

Chicka Chicka Boom Boom-Bill Martin Jr
The New Baby Calf- Edith Newlin Chase
Pig, Horse or Cow- Arlene Alda
Froggy Builds a Treehouse- Jonothan London
Q is for Duck- An Alphabet Guessing Game- Mary E Hing & Michale
Folson
Sensory
Table

Rice, plastic spiders, small toy spiders, trays

Language & Literacy: comprehension, speaking, vocabulary, phonological

awareness, alphabetic knowledge, concepts about print, book knowledge

Approaches to Learning: initiative, planning, engagement, problem solving

Social/Emotional: self-identity, sense of competence, emotions, community,
cooperative play, conflict resolution
Physical: fine motor, body awareness
Creative: pretend play
Science: experimenting, communicating ideas, natural and physical world, tools