Shapes and sizes - Ovals and Stars

Jan. 15 – Ovals and Stars
*Thursday, Jan. 15 – Ovals and Stars
Greeting Time (9:00 – 9:15)
Morning Circle (AM 9:15-9:30)
1. Animals Exercises
2. Song Can
3 Calendar
4 Fly Swatter Game – shapes will be taped on the wall and the children are divided into two teams. Two children are given fly swatters. The first to swat the shape I call out is the winner, then the fly swatters go to the next children in line.
5. We will then move our rope into a triangle and make a human triangle.
6. Book. “Pancakes, Crackers, and Pizza” Marjorie Eberts
7,. Pizza Match. Each child chooses a piece of cardboard pizza from a bag and then adds his pizza slice to the correct pizza by matching the toppings. If a player chooses a slice from a pizza that has not yet been started, he should begin a new pizza. The game is over when all of the pizzas are complete.

Learning Centers (AM 9:30-10:15)
*Creative Art: “Draw Me a Star”, by Eric Carle, is our inspiration for creative art today. Eric Carle’s book will help teach us how to draw stars and we all will try. We will decorate our stars with glitter and other materials.
*Messy Table: Making shape cookies! We will roll out cookies and make them into our favorite shapes, and then eat them during snack time!
*Cut and Color Table: Raw or Hard boiled. When an egg is raw, it wobbles when you spin, but a hardboiled egg will spin quickly. I will have hard and soft eggs mixed up in a carton. The children will spin the eggs and sort them into different cartons, depending on if they are hard-boiled or soft.
*Dramatic Play/Manipulatives: We will continue using boxes in the dramatic play area because they are so fun and entertaining!
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: Bread squares and cheese squares.
Recess (AM 10:20-10:30..PM 1:50-2:00)
Closing Circle (AM 10:30-11:00..PM 2:00-2:30)
1. Story “Fuzzy yellow Duckling” Mathew Van Fleet
2. Phonics
3. Music and Movement –
Three Corners – one child is blindfolded and the other children choose a corner to stand in. The blindfolded chil calls out a number (1,2, or 3) Everyone in that corner is out and has to sit down.
Bigger than/Smaller than – a shoe box will be placed in the center of the room. Two children will find something in the classroom that is bigger than the box and something that is smaller than the box. The children will lay the big items by the box and place the small items in the box to test the items for its size.
Dancing around the shapes - There will be a large circle, square, triangle and rectangle. I will put on dancing music and the children will dance around the shapes until I stop the music and yell out a shape and an action I want the children to perform with the shape. (i.e. hop around the triangle/ touch the square/ step on the circle)