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

• Infants
• Toddlers
• Discovery-Preschool
• Preschool
• Prekindergarten

 

Infants

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

• Library & Language: Participating in interactive conversations and games with adults using books, puppets, and toys
• Motor: Engaging in various kinds of movement in an activity gym; Practicing throwing balls
• Cognitive: Engaging in coordinated hand movements with pie pans; Dropping objects into a bucket
• Sensory: Exploring colors with suncatchers

 

Toddlers

For Toddlers, the theme is “Me and My Family.”  Sample activities include:

• Library & Language: Exploring books in the classroom library; Exploring the letters of the alphabet; Discussing picture cards
  Creative Arts: Coloring boxes with markers and crayons
• Sensory: Dancing with scarves; Exploring sounds made by shakers filled with different materials
• Motor: Passing a beach ball; Following directions in a song or rhyme

 

Discovery Preschool

For Discovery Preschool, the theme is “Me and My Family.” Sample activities include:

• Library & Language Arts: Exploring family-related books, photo cards, and photos; Using words to describe the textures on tactile cards; Featured books: Hands Can by Cheryl Willis Hudson and You and Me Together: Moms, Dads, and Kids Around the World by Barbara Kerley
• Creative Arts: Creating art with markers and crayons
• Science & Sensory: Exploring a variety of smells with smelling containers; Learning proper hand-washing techniques
• Dramatic Play: Dressing up and pretending in a home-themed dramatic play set up
• Math & Manipulatives: Clapping patterns; Sorting objects by color and shape

 

Preschool

For Preschool, the theme is “My Home and Family.”  Sample activities include:

• Library and Language Arts: Writing letters to families and friends and mailing the letters in a mailbox; Discussing pictures of children and their families; Featured Book: Families by Ann Morris
• Creative Arts: Painting houses at the easel
• Science & Sensory: Bathing dolls and washing dishes
• Dramatic Play: Using dress-up clothes and home- and kitchen-related objects
• Math & Manipulatives: Building with blocks made from milk cartons and stuffed grocery bags; Creating graphs about homes and families

 

Prekindergarten

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

• Library and Language Arts: Creating pet tags; Discussing books and photo cards of pets; Featured Book: Pet Show! by Ezra Jack Keats
• Creative Arts: Creating pet sculptures with salt-dough
• Science & Sensory: Blowing on lightweight items to see how far they will move; Exploring the textures of feathers and birdseed
• Dramatic Play: Pretending in a pet shop
• Math & Manipulatives: Sorting according to size; Building with unit blocks