phoneme: /k/
Transition Song: One Finger One Thumb Keep Moving
Materials:
What Will Fat Cat Sit On? By
Jan Thomas, Laminated letter C, puppets
Vocabulary and Basic Concepts:
happy, scared, worried, on/off, problem, solving, chair,
cow, dog, chicken, pig, cat, mouse not, animals sounds, yes/no, "I want ________" phrases
Preliteracy: Draw the letter C. Who has a letter C in their name? Miss Carrie does! Sometimes a letter C makes a /k/ sound and sometimes it makes a /s/ sound.
This week, Miss Carrie read the book What Will Fat Cat Sit On by Jan Thomas. (Hey, did you hear that Fat and Cat sound the same? They rhyme!) Fat Cat has a problem. He doesn't know where to sit. His friends have to help him solve the problem. He wants to sit on all of them. They do NOT want Fat Cat to sit on them. Mouse has a solution to the problem that everyone can agree on. We discovered if Fat Cat agreed to the solution, too. (Miss Carrie loves to use this book to talk about conflict resolution. By this time, many of the children have had more than a few months to learn about conflict resolution as we solve problems in class.) We also practiced animal sounds. We noticed the animals feelings. We labeled happy and mad. Miss Carrie introduced a new feeling: worried. The animals looked worried when Fat Cat wanted to sit on them......well, except the dog. He was MAD! (which the children thought very funny)
Then Miss Carrie brought out puppets. She had a lamb puppet. The lamb liked to sit on knees or shoulders or heads. The lamb asked us if she could sit on our knee. We could say yes or no. Sometimes we gave the lamb a hug. Miss Carrie had a lot of puppets. We could pretend to have our puppets ask if they could play or fly or sit on friends heads. Then we could ask to trade. Friends could say yes or no. We also practiced conflict resolution if anyone wanted the same puppets.
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| Miss Carrie singing One Finger, One Thumb, One Arm, One LEG! |
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| Pig is feeling worried! Can you make a worried face? |
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| Fat Cat is feeling scared! Can you make a scared face? |
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| Dog is feeling mad! Can you growl like Dog? |
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| Lambie Pie asking if she can sit on his knee. He said no. |
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| Lambie Pie asking if she can hug the pink rabbit |
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| Lambie Pie LOVES hugs but she always asks first. |
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| Showing off his bee puppet. |
DO THIS AT HOME: Make puppets or use toys. In conflict resolution, everyone has to agree to the solution. This is also a great time for children to practice yes or no. And their puppet voices are hysterical.
