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Program Themes for November 2011

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Program Themes for November 2011

Program Themes for November 2011

Below is a sampling of some activities your child may participate in during the month of November 2011.

 

Infants

For infants, the theme is “All Around Me.” Sample activities include:

  • Library & Language: Playing with farm animal puppets; Singing “Ten Little Fingers”
  • Motor: Coloring with chunky crayons; Filling and dumping out soft blocks from a plastic container
  • Cognitive: Exploring textures of fabric pieces; Shaking rattles of different sizes and sounds
  • Sensory: Exploring pumpkins and leaves

 

Toddlers

For Toddlers, the theme is “The Farm.”  Sample activities include:

  • Library & Language: Exploring books, photographs, and magnets about the farm and farm animals
  • Creative Arts: Making collages using tape; Playing music instruments as a band
  • Sensory: Washing pumpkins
  • Dramatic Play: Pretending to be farmers tending to animals and crops with farm-related props and accessories

 

Discovery Preschool

For Discovery Preschool, the theme is “The Farm.” Sample activities include:

  • Library & Language Arts: Exploring farm-related books, photo cards, and photos; Using farm-related finger puppets and flannel pieces to tell farm stories; Featured books: Let’s Go Visiting by Sue Williams and The Cow That Went Oink by Bernard Most
  • Creative Arts: Creating black and white art; Painting with corncobs
  • Science & Sensory: Exploring tactile cards; Removing kernels from corn cobs
  • Dramatic Play: Pretending to be farmers and customers in a farmer’s market
  • Math & Manipulatives: Measuring pumpkins; Sorting shapes

 

Preschool

For Preschool, the theme is “My Community.”  Sample activities include:

  • Library and Language Arts: Sorting words; Discussing letters and words in community signs; Featured Book: Worksong by Gary Paulsen
  • Creative Arts: Creating signs
  • Science & Sensory: Exploring play dough with tools, cookie cutters, and plastic vehicles and people
  • Dramatic Play: Taking on a variety of roles in a beauty shop
  • Math & Manipulatives: Identifying numerals in home addresses

 

Prekindergarten

For Prekindergarten, the theme is “My Community.”  Sample activities include:

  • Library & Literacy: Writing letters; Exploring books and photographs about communities and community-related items; Worksong by Gary Paulsen
  • Creative Arts: Creating grocery collages; Stamping with alphabet and number stamps at the easel
  • Science & Sensory: Exploring the melting of ice; Writing and forming letters with flubber
  • Dramatic Play: Role-playing and pretending in a grocery store
  • Math & Manipulatives: Sorting objects by various attributes

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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