All About Me - Feelings

All About Me!
*Tuesday, Nov. 11 – Feeling Me - Dd
Greeting Time (9:00 – 9:15)
Morning Circle (AM 9:15-9:30)
1. Song Can.
2. New letters
3 Calendar
4 We’ll sing “If you’re happy and you know it” and then discuss the different feelings we can feel. We’ll also sing “If you’re sad and you know it, angry, sleepy, etc”
5. Each child will get a plate to hold with a smiley face on one side and a frowny face on the other. The teacher will make a series of statements and ask the children to respond by showing the side of the plate that shows how they feel. If they aren’t happy or sad about a statement, they keep the plate on their laps.
Learning Centers (AM 9:30-10:15)
*Creative Art: The children will be able to explore and express their feelings using Tempera paints
*Messy Table: Autumn leaves, dirt, and water bottles
*Cut and Color Table: We will making ‘me’ puppets out of paper bags today using either photographs of the children or googly eyes and other materials to make their very own ‘self’ puppet
*Dramatic Play: Home – the children will try to connect their experiences from home into the classroom by roll playing rolls. From cleaning to cooking, to paying bills, being mom, dad, etc.
Snack (small groups come at different times to eat during Self-Selected Activities. Unless we are making our snack, then we will eat it during small group.)
*Snack: Today we’ll make pizza faces! We’ll about different feelings while we make them and how we can give our pizza faces different feelings just by changing how the face looks!
Outside Play (AM 10:20-10:30..PM 1:50-2:00)
Closing Circle (AM 10:30-11:00..PM 2:00-2:30)
1. Story
2. Make pizza faces
3. Music and Movement – learn the sign language and actions to the song ‘what are you feeling’ from ‘Signing Time’.
4. Phonics