NOTE: The song is too fast for our pre-K kids so we sing this without the music. We are learning the first three verses.
Materials: Laminated Santa parts, Laminated letter S, Scarves, music
Vocabulary and Basic Concepts: Santa, body parts, clothing parts, fast/slow, loud/soft, scarves, swoop, swirl, sway, sit, stand, dance, jump, float, bend, throw, see, watch, look, colors, pronouns, What questions, Who questions.
We are starting our holiday songs early in order to have time to learn it. This week we started practicing Must Be Santa.
We have a Santa we put together. We talked about the parts: boots, hat/cap, shirt, pants, nose, beard, night, and HO-HO-HO. We are also learning simple actions.
Preliteracy: Santa has a /s/ sound. To make that sound we close our teeth and hid our tongue. Then we hiss /s-s-s-s-s-s/ like a snake. To draw the letter S we
Start at the top.
Swooooop over.
Swiiiiiiiirl down.
Swooooop under.
And STOP!
That was a lot of /s/ sounds! What other words have an /s/ sound? Snow, snack, small group, sing, sit, stand, SUPERMAN!
Miss Carrie pulled out a box that had something else with /s/ sounds. Scarves! We chose the color we wanted. We learned that if we didn't get the color we wanted, we could ask our friends to trade (problem solving!). We listened to a lot of music and decided if it was fast or slow. Then we danced to that music with our scarves.
There was classical music, hip hop, movie soundtracks, bluegrass, disco, rock, country, and jazz music. Some of the music started slow and then went fast. Sometimes it was quiet and then it was loud.
DO THIS AT HOME: Put on your favorite music. Talk about what you like and don't like. Wave scarves, blankets, pillowcases, or hand towels. Or, just dance. Copy the dance moves of your child. Ask them to show you how to do certain moves. Put them in charge.
See what else happened in class this week:
Elephants invaded the house!
Practicing cutting skills with the playdough.
Playing The Cat In The Hat-I Can Do That. This game is great for learning prepositions and following directions.
One of our friends had a birthday and brought blue cupcakes!
