Classroom News

A Peek at Our Week

Date: May 29​th​ and 31st

Day of the Monday Wednesday Friday

Week

Self-Selected Creative Art: This week the children will have the opportunity to paint on top
Activities of pieces of music using their fingers or brushes.
1:20 – 2:50
Science: This week the children will have the opportunity to explore making
different sounds and experiment with colors as they put food coloring into
jars of water and use drum mallets to tap different parts of the jars to make
music.

Manipulative: This week children will have the opportunity to build

structures using legos.

Math: This week the children will have the opportunity to create different
shapes by putting pegs into a peg board. In addition, they can explore
organizing the pegs by color and creating different patterns with them.

Sensory: This week the sensory bin will be filled with dirt and small plastic
bugs. Children will have the opportunity to search through it using
magnifying glasses, scoops, and small pails in order to find the bugs and
other small creatures.

Dramatic Play: ​This week the children will have the opportunity to play
instruments, dress up and sing into a microphone on a stage.

Blocks: This week children will have the opportunity to build and knock
down structures, and dress up as constructionists.

Snack Memorial Day Mini pumpkin muffin Animal Cracker Parfaits:

1:45 – 2:30 and milk yogurt, animal crackers,
and water
Gathering Memorial Day Wednesday we will Friday we will be
Time explore how a exploring what different
3:00 – 3:10 microphone can make kinds of instruments are
singing louder. made of. Together we
Children will sing will look at the inside of
along to songs such as, a piano to see what it is
“You are my sunshine” made up of and look at a
as someone plays the violin to compare
guitar. There will also differences in what
be a puppet show about instruments are made of.
talent shows and
performance that ends
with inviting the
children to perform.

Small Focus Memorial Day Book: Olivia Forms a Book:​ Song and Dance
Activities Band​ by Ian Falconer Man ​by Karen Ackerman
3:10 – 3:25
Activity: Wednesday, Activity: Friday we will
the children will have be making maracas out
the opportunity to see of paper plates and
and strum a guitar. beads. We will then use
Children will then have them as we take turns
an opportunity to performing on small
choose instruments and stages in the classroom.
a song with a teacher’s
help and then perform it
for their classmates.

Learning Together at Home

One way you can encourage exploration of music is to listen to different styles of music with
your child and play instruments made out of common household items such as boxes and
wooden spoons, a container or the edge of the couch you can pretend to play piano on, or even
just using your body as an instrument by clapping your hands and stomping feet.

Another way to encourage music exploration is to sing songs with children. You can use
things such as cups instead of a microphone to show how sound can be amplified. You can
also talk about performance and do a family talent show with singing/instruments.
 Early Childhood Fundamentals

Did you know?

Asking questions while reading with young children helps them develop key skills needed for
later reading success. For example, children learn how to predict what comes next in a
sequence of events, they learn new vocabulary and appropriate contexts to use them, and they
learn comprehension skills as they are asked questions that help them think about key
elements of the story.