Teacher: Unit Theme: Apples and Pumpkins

Curriculum Goals: Prosocial Behavior; Learning and Problem Solving

Curriculum Objectives: Shares and respects the rights of others; approaches problem flexibly

Daily Routine	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Individual Planning
Arrival Routine Planning Centers	Journals (write about your weekend) Open Snack	Stencils of basic shapes (circle, square, triangle) Open Snack	Journals (have children look at a variety of gourds and see if they want to write about them) Open Snack	Vegetable rubber stamps; Open Snack
Morning Meeting Book Finger plays	Attendance Picking Apples And Pumpkins “Five Little Pumpkins”	Attendance Growing Vegetable Soup “Way Up High in the Apple Tree”	Attendance Pumpkin Pumpkin “Five Red Apples in a Grocery Store”	Attendance The Apple Book “Apple Bounce Song”
Outdoors Gross Motor	Bean Bag Toss (pretend to toss apples into a basket)	Have races carrying small pumpkins	“Mr. McGregor’s Garden”	Pumpkin Patch and a pretend hayride (hide small pumpkins all around the schoolyard for children to find
Free Choice Discovery Time	Plastic apples in sand table	Water play/ sink and float: use small pumpkins and apples	Examine the insides of a pumpkin with magnifying glass	Sand table
Art Experience	Print with apples	Fingerpaint with yellow and red paint on large paper	Print with vegetables	Paint small pumpkins
Small Group	Cooking: make apple sauce	Hi Ho Cherry-O game	Cut our large pumpkin shape from Tuesday’s fingerpainting art activity	Children will dictate a recipe using apples (i.e. apple pie, applesauce)
Large Group Music/Movement Story Time	“Grow Apple Grow”	Creative dance using fall colored streamers and classical music	Parachute with paper apples	“Pass the pumpkin” game
Lunch Routine Transition Activity	Play “hot potato” Using an apple instead of a potato	Have words Apple and Pumpkin displayed. If you have A in your name go wash hands, etc.	Release to handwashing by color, emphasizing fall colors	Play pass the pumpkin, but when have the pumpkin, it’s time to go wash hands
Weekly Materials to Enhance the Environment
Literacy/Library/Writing Books about pumpkins and apples in library and science area; It’s the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown		Numeracy/Math Manipulatives; Sort, count, and graph small apples and pumpkins; Apple matching number game		Discovery/Science Magnifying glass Pumpkins Mr. Potato Head w/ Pumpkin
Computer Kid Pix / draw apples Take child’s dictation of their apple recipe		Blocks Trucks for hauling apples Straw		Sensory/Sand/Water Fish for small apples using net; Small plastic apples in sand; Explore inside of pumpkin
Vocabulary Word wall; gourd, harvest, vegetable		Dramatic Play Farmer’s market; cash register, sign, awning, fruits and vegetables, baskets		Health/Safety/Self-Help Washing fruits and vegetables, safety when cutting apples
Family/Community Partnership Children’s recipes will be sent home; list of markets and cider mills in the area		Multicultural Exposure Relate how there are many different kinds of apples (colors) as there are many different kinds of people		Outdoor/Gross Motor Pound golf tees into pumpkin
Special Guests/Activities/Field Trips Visitor will bring a basket of apples Plan a trip to the apple orchard/make a check off sheet of things to look for at the orchard