Transition Song: Five Little Ghosts
The children LOVE this song every single year. There are actions that they are learning. Have them teach it to you.
Materials: Laminated Letter G, Book: Rex Wrecks It by Ben Clanton
Vocabulary and Basic Concepts: curve/straight, wreck/wrecked/wrecking, build, blocks, tall/short, together, May I...?, yes/no, mad/sad/happy.
We have a new letter this month. The letter G makes a /g/ sound (we're not covering a /dj/ sound for letter G). Who has a /g/ sound in their name? What other words have a /g/ sound? Ghost, goodbye, grape.
Look at the letter G. I see a top and a bottom and a middle. I see a big curved line and little straight lines. When I draw a letter G I start at the top:
Draw half a circle, not a frown.
Go across the middle and then down.
This week we read a story by Ben Clanton titled Rex Wrecks It. I found my copy at Costco. Gizmo, Sprinkle, and Wild like to build things. Rex the dinosaur likes to wreck it. He doesn't ask if it is okay! He just wrecks it. I used past tense 'wrecked' in order to get separation between Rex and wrecks. We predicted what would happen next. Would Rex wreck everything? We talked about how it made Gizmo, Sprinkle, and Wild feel (mad/sad). We discussed what we could do to solve their problem (Ask if you can wreck it. Build your own so you can wreck it.) Then we brought out blocks and built towers. We asked friends if we could wreck their towers. If they said no, it was okay. We could build our own. Some friends said yes and some said no.
DO THIS AT HOME: build things together and talk about when it is okay to wreck it and when it is not. Practice asking with kind words (please, thank you). Talk about how you feel when someone wrecks something you are working on.
Other things that happened at preschool this week:
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