Shapes and Sizes - Square

Jan. 8 - Squares
*Thursday, Jan. 8 - Squares
Greeting Time (9:00 – 9:15)
Morning Circle (AM 9:15-9:30)
1. Song Can
2. Animal Exercises
3 Calendar
4 A rope will be arranged in the form of a square and we will all sit inside. I will ask the children if they notice what shape we are sitting in today. The children will get a paper square and they will touch the square to other objects in the room of the same shape.
5. Human square. To show that a square is made of four equal sides, four children who are close to the same height will lay down on the ground in the shape of a square.
6. Book. “There’s a Square” by Mary Serfozo

Learning Centers (AM 9:30-10:15)
*Creative Art: Parents will provide a square box with a lid for their child. The children will transform the boxes into treasure boxes using paint, sequins, beads, jewels, and glue!
*Messy Table: Sandboxes. Four square boxes with sand will be in the messy table. The children can draw shapes with their fingers and then erase their drawings by shaking the box.
*Cut and Color Table: Cutting squares. Squares are the easiest things for little ones to cut because they only need to cut straight lines. Squares will be drawn on construction paper and the children are encouraged to cut them out. Crayons, markers, glue, and confetti will be provided for decoration
*Dramatic Play/Manipulatives: Boxes are a favorite for children. Give a child a box and they can travel anywhere or be anything!
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)
Four Square
Closing Circle (AM 10:30-11:00..PM 2:00-2:30)
1. Story
2. Phonics
3. Music and Movement – three dimensional squares/stacking boxes. Five or six boxes will be put on the carpet and the children will see if they can stack them one inside the other until only one is touching the ground. When they’re finished, we’ll take the boxes apart and line them up and ask questions: “Which is biggest/smallest? Which would fit in the middle?” Then we will turn them all over and stack them on top of each other.