Oct. 14 - First Day of School

We’ll be focusing on the first day of school today and what school will be like. We’ll talk about other school experiences the children have had and what we will do at school every day; we will also decide as a class what our class rules should be. We’ll be reading the story, “My First Day of School”, making autumn trees, playing school bus, lacing leaves, and having graham crackers for snack

Tuesday, October 14/ Wednesday, October 15, 2008 FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL
Morning Circle (AM 9:00-9:30)
1. Song Can
2. We will introduce each other, talk about the schedule we will follow each day, centers and what we will do at each one. We will write and practice our names
3. Share and Tell
4. We will set up class rules together, as the teacher writes the rules on chart paper and reads it back to the kids as we go. We may end up making one easy-to-remember rule: "You can do anything that doesn't hurt yourself, someone else, or Miss Tammy’s property." It pretty much covers EVERYTHING! Discuss each picture in turn.
5. We'll take a tour of the room, providing names for materials and areas.
6. Read ‘ my first day at preschool’. Play ‘Glad to See You’
7. School Calendar
Learning Centers (AM 9:30-10:15)
*Creative Art: Autumn trees and melted crayons
*Messy Table: beans
*Cut and Color Table: finger paints
*Dramatic Play: Play school bus.
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 – graham crackers and milk
Closing Circle (AM 10:30-11:00..PM 2:00-2:30)
*Story “If you take a mouse to school”
*Music and Movement – We’ll sing “It’s Autumn Time” and show how a leaf falls from a tree as we move from one end of the room to the other.
* Work on the letters in our names.
To finish whole group, we'll play the name game.....If the teacher calls your name, that child jumps up and says one other person in the room that they know. We'll go into talking about what each of us likes to do and what our favorite things are.