Date: December Week 3
Title: Yummy Yucky
Holiday Edition
Phoneme: /m/
Pre-Literacy: Trace
the Letter M. “Draw up the mountain. Go
back down. Draw up the mountain, and down to the town.” Talk about words that have the /m/
sound. Merry. Moo. Mouse. Me. Does
anyone have a name with the /m/ sound?
Materials required: Laminated
Letter M, Laminated Santa parts, Yummy Yucky Book, Feed the Woozle Game, food items from our preschool kitchen and nonfood items such as sequins, glue, playdough, books, and toys
Concepts: What Questions, Foods, non Foods
Transition activity: Song: Must Be Santa, by Raffi
Discussion: We’re
going to discuss Yummy holiday foods (candy canes, cookies, hot chocolate with
marshmallows) and yucky nonfoods (ornaments, tinsel, ribbons, pine needles,
markers, paint, glitter).
What foods do you like?
What foods do you not like?
What should we NEVER put in our mouths?
At snack time, I will bring my hot chocolate maker and
provide hot chocolate with marshmallows! The kids are also building marshmallow snowmen in Miss Julie's classroom.
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We're feeding the Woozle. He likes foods that are yummy I'm adapting the game specific for today's activity). The nonfoods will be put into a box. The kids loved taking turns feeding the Woozle with the big blue spoon.
Activity: Caroling at the front office to sing our Must Be
Santa song and Jingle Bells. The children did so well singing and shaking their jingle bells! The ladies in the front office and our principal thanked them for coming and singing so well.
