All About Me Friends and Family

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All About MeFriends and Family

• Unit Plans

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Phonological Awareness

• Focus listening activities and rhymes
• Lead teacher will hide 3 to 4 instruments behind
  a barrier and make a sound with each instrument
  without the students seeing the instrument. Let
  children guess what instrument they heard.
• Hand Clapping games patty cake Miss Mary
  Mack - See handout
• Animal Sound Bingo make a bingo grid with
  animal pictures and as the teacher gives the
  animal sounds the children identify the animal
  that makes that sound and places a marker on that
  picture.
• Finger plays that rhyme

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Felt Board Stories and Nursery Rhyme

• Felt Board Stories www.janbrett.com ,
  www.dltk-kids.com, www.meddybemps.com,
  www.kidzclub.com/stories.htm
• Are You My Mother
• - Kissing Hand

• Nursery Rhyme
• Mary Had a Little Lamb
• Nursery Rhyme Book student illustrations of
  each nursery rhyme

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Books

• Shubert is a Star
• My teacher Sleeps in School
• All by Myself
• I Like Me
• A Pocket Full of Kisses
• Chicka Chicka Boom Boom
• Froggy Goes To School
• If You Take A Mouse To School
• The Day the Teacher Went Bananas
• Boomer Goes to School
• What Teachers Cant Do

• Owen
• Families Are Different
• Chrysanthemum
• Little Engine That Could
• Mama Do You Love Me?
• My Five Senses
• I Like Me
• When I Get Bigger
• Noisy Nora
• Will I have a Friend
• Margaret and Margarita
• Stellaluna
• Franklins New Friend

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Opening Centers

• Introduce centers
• LT should have 5 students and AT will have 5
  students to introduce the centers
• Both teachers should take time to discuss the
  different uses of the items in the centers.
• Show the students how to clean up and how items
  are labeled throughout the classsroom.

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Music

• Good songs for the beginning of school
• Wheels on the bus
• Hello Neighbor
• Let Me See You Boogaloo
• Days of the Week
• Shake Your Body
• Boom Chicka Boom
• Simon Says
• Miss Mary Mack
• Michael Finnegan

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Additions to Centers
Math Graph boys and girls in classroom Graph how we all get to school AB patterning Growth chart detailing the height of each student Writing - Word Wall words home, baby, brother, family, mommy, house, books, daddy, sister, library, grandfather, grandmother Add people stencils or stamps Dramatic Play Our Pre-K Family Tree-we take pictures of our students and their family on meet the teacher day and use these to create a Pre-k Family Tree Add clothes that represent different genders and roles
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Additions to Centers
Science Feelings Second Step Five Senses Talk about class pet and family pet Blocks Dollhouse with assortment of people and vehicles Strips of cardboard like out of packaging boxes (can be used as ramps) Art people shaped sponges Paints and crayons that represent various cultures Colored yarn Googly eyes Mirrors Outside Backpack with paper, books, markers, chalk crayons, and tablecloth Learning center material ideas binoculars, magnifying glasses, rhythm sticks Roll Ball Name Game TSW roll ball to each other and call out their names as they roll it to another student
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Activities

• Journal paper I drew this on the first day of
  school
• Make classroom rules
• Name Acronym (parent activity)
• Tactile names write TS name on tagboard, TS
  glue beans, sequins, macaroni, ect. On to the
  letters of their name
• Classbook on what the students can do all by
  themselves
• Tell about you prompt cards