Oct. 23 Insects All Around Us

*Thursday, Oct. 23 – INSECTS ALL AROUND US – Letter Aa
We will learn about bugs that help and bugs that hurt. We’ll look at types of bugs and where they might live. We will read the story, “I Like Bugs” by Margaret Wise Brown, make our own special bugs, go bug hunting, play bug parachute, and look for worms in our messy table. We will have ants on a log for snack!

Morning Circle (AM 9:00-9:30)
1. The Letter Aa
2. Song Can
3 Calendar
4 We will look at our class pet, Squeaky. Are caterpillars insects? And then we will talk about other kinds of bugs and see what other bugs the children can identify in our story.
4. Read the story, "I like Bugs”

Learning Centers (AM 9:30-10:15)
*Creative Art: homemade playdough – we will make special bugs out of our playdough
*Messy Table: dirt with worms. Are worms insects? We’ll find out!
*Cut and Color Table: We’ll make bug glasses
*Dramatic Play: Bug Detectives
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: We’ll make ants on a log today during closing circle
Outside Play (AM 10:20-10:30..PM 1:50-2:00)
We’ll go bug hunting outside and play bug parachute
Closing Circle (AM 10:30-11:00..PM 2:00-2:30)
*Story
*We will be making our yummy ants on a log snack for closing circle today and we’ll talk about the life of an ant.
* We’ll talk about the day and what we learned about butterflies and caterpillars. We’ll practice writing Aa on the chalkboard once more.