WHAT'S HAPPENING IN MISS IEZZONI'S PRE K CLASS AS THIS NEW YEAR BEGINS...HAPPY 2010!!!
GENERAL TOPICS/GOALS FOR PRE K 4 DURING THE MONTH OF JANUARY
Continue with the Letter of the Week: Pp, Qq, Rr, and Ss
Continue with the Numeral of the Week:15, 16, 17 and 18
Continue with Words of the Week: Check Pre K 4 wall
Continue with Problems of the Week: Check Pre K 4 wall
Continue with Calendar/Weather/Circle Time Activities
Continue with Safety/Healthy Habits
Continue with Emergency Procedures/Personal Awareness
Continue with Cause and Effect Discoveries
Continue with Problem Solving
Continue with Patterning/Sequencing
More Counting to 100
More Addition/Subtraction
More Tally/Graph
More Fine Motor Skills
More Rhyming Words
More Winter Changes
Celebrate Epiphany and the Christmas Season
Explore and Experiment with Snow
Experience African Cultures and celebrate with an African feast made from African Foods
Appreciate African Culture and the Contributions made during the African American Struggle to Freedom and Equal Rights
Sequence the Memories of our Preschool Year of 2009
Ring in the New Calendar Year of 2010
Begin to participate in Catholic School’s Week
PRE K 4 SPECIAL ACTIViTIES AND EVENTS FOR THE MONTH OF JANUARY…………………………………………...
We will continue practicing for our Pre K 4 Winter Program throughout the month of January.
We will change our calendar and begin our new calendar year on Monday the 4th.
We will celebrate the feast of Epiphany on Wednesday the 6th.
We will begin our study of African Culture on Thursday the 7th.
We will continue to experience the season of Winter with a Nature Walk and experiment with snow-weather permitting-on Thursday the 7th.
We will go to mass with our prayer partners on Friday the 8th.
We will continue to discover and appreciate African Culture with songs, dance, folk tales, and language during the week of the 11th-15th.
We will be introduced to the African American struggle to freedom and equal rights with the non-fiction stories of Harriet Tubman and Martin Luther King Jr. on Wednesday the 13th.
We will continue to discover the African American struggle to freedom and equal rights with a chant and dramatic play on Thursday the 14th.
We will go to mass with our prayer partners on Friday the 15th.
We will begin sequencing the memories of our Pre K 4 Year of 2009 in a time line during the week of the 19th-22nd.
We will post our “dreams” for the future of a better world like Martin Luther King Jr. on Tuesday the 19th and Wednesday the 20th.
We will continue to experience signs of Winter with a Nature Walk on Wednesday the 20th-weather permitting.
We will continue to experiment with African cultures and contributions by planning an African Feast with African foods and recipes and compare/contrast freedom and equal rights through role-play on Thursday the 21st.
We will go to mass with our prayer partners on Friday the 22nd.
We will continue to experiment with snow-weather permitting- during the week of the 25th-29th.
We will celebrate African Culture and African American contributions with an African Feast on Wednesday the 27th.
We will begin the comparison and contrast of our calendar year and the Asian lunar year on Thursday the 28th.
We will begin the preparation of Catholic Schools Week on Thursday the 28th and Friday the 29th.
We will go to mass with our prayer partners on Friday the 29th.
LIST OF BOOKS FOR THE MONTH OF JANUARY
THE BOOK OF THE MONTH FOR JANUARY IS…
THE SNOWMAN, by Raymond Briggs!
Casper and the Star
The Twelve Days of Christmas
All To Build A Snowman
Five Little Penguins Slipping on the Ice
The Biggest Best Snowman
The Snowy Day
Abiyoyo
A Story A Story
The Adventures of Spider
Traveling to Tondo
Bringing the Rain to Kapiti
Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People’s Ears
Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters
I Lost a Tooth in Africa
Jambo Means Hello A Swahili Alphabet Book
We All Went on Safari A Counting Book through Tanzania
Jaha and Jamil Went Down the Hill An African Mother Goose
Rain Talk
Peter’s Chair
Apt. 3
Pet Show
The Trip
Elizabeti’s Doll
I Love My Hair
Shades of Black
Big Mama’s
Honey, I Love
No Mirrors In My Nana’s House
Cleveland Lee’s Beale Street Band
***Various Martin Luther King Jr.stories
For questions, please contact Ms. Iezzoni at ms.iezzoni@values4life.com.