Week: March 15-18, 2004 Unit Theme: The Arts/Creative Drama

Curriculum Goals: Representation and Symbolic Thinking

Curriculum Objectives: #35 & #36 Takes on pretend roles/makes believe with objects

Daily Routine	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Individual Planning
Arrival Routine Planning Centers	Open Snack Toothbrushing Set out texture boards and crayons	Open Snack Toothbrushing Word cards with animal names & rubber stamps	Open Snack Toothbrushing Set out National Geographic Mags, scissors	Open Snack Toothbrushing
Morning Meeting Book Finger plays	Daily News Rumble in The Jungle *Monkey See, Monkey Do	Daily News Owl Babies (children will be the baby owls)	Daily News Curious George **Monkey Mania	Daily News Animal ABC’s ***The Zoo
Outdoors Gross Motor	Animal Relay races: jump like kangaroos, run like a cheetah, etc.	Bat and Ball Sidewalk chalk	Balance Beam Bubbles	Large balls, kick ball, basketball
Free Choice Discovery Time	Invite small groups to act out a familiar story (such as Goldilocks and the three bears) w/ props	See Monday Puppet theater and animal puppets	See Monday Puppet theater and animal puppets	See Monday Puppet theater and animal puppets
Art Experience	Add fur pieces to collage materials	Add feathers to collage materials	Glue animal picture of choice to lge paper and paint at easel	Biocolor drip and spread
Small Group	Begin making Safari props: animal masks, camera, binoculars	Safari props: Owl baby puppets	Safari props: Animal Puzzles	Safari props: Patterning with frog manips Zoo animal dominoes
Large Group Music/Movement Story Time	Does A Kangaroo have a Mother Too? What If Creative Dramatics (Greg & Steve)	The Very Busy Spider/Create an environmental spider web with yarn, children will be spiders (see “Out of the Box art activities)	Good Night Gorilla We’re Going on a Bear Hunt act out story as it is read	Does A Kangaroo have a Mother Too?
Lunch Routine Transition Activity	Moving like a____ (ex: all children whose names begin with C will move like a cat to wash hands, all with K will move like kangaroo)	Moving like a____ Stamp a letter on child’s hand, child finds the letter on the word wall	**Monkey Mania (child goes to wash hands after chosen to be monkey)	Match word card to word on word wall
Weekly Materials to Enhance the Environment
Literacy/Library/Writing Type out animal names Literacy Day; alphabet rubber stamps Add new words to word wall		Numeracy/MathManipulatives Graph: use an assortment of animals, sort by jungle, farm, etc. place on graph/count, which do we have more of, less than, etc.		Discovery/Science National Geographic Magazines; binoculars, camera (will use old camera so children can open it up and look inside)
Computer Sammy’s Science House Type out animal names		Blocks Zoo animals, large hollow blocks		Sensory/Sand/Water Playdough Water with turkey baster, funnels
Vocabulary Jungle, zoo, kangaroo, Australia, baby animal names, safari		Dramatic Play Act out Three Bears w props Use child made props to go on a safari World Map		Health/Safety/Self-Help Cooking Activity: Monkey Milk Shakes (bananas, milk)
Family/Community Partnership Parenting Awareness handouts PICL folders Literacy Day		Multicultural Exposure Discussion of animal habitats, which animals live in USA, Africa, Australia; world map, national geographic magazines		Outdoor/Gross Motor Climber, relay races, balls, bat, sidewalk chalk
Special Guests/Activities/Field Trips Thursday is Literacy Day

* Monkey See Monkey Do Children stand in a circle and 1 child is chosen to make a funny movement everyone tries to imitate it.  Give everyone a turn to be 'it' ** Monkey Mania Played like Hot Potato except you pass around a banana.  Whoever has the banana when the music stops must stand up and act like a monkey; *** THE ZOO This is the way the elephant goes (clasp hands and move arms back and forth dangling) With curly trunk instead of nose The buffalo all shaggy and fat has two sharp horns in place of hat(pint fingers out from forehead) the hippo with his mouth so wide lets you see what is inside (open and close hands to make mouth movements) the wiggly snake upon the ground crawls along with out a sound(weave hands back and forth) but the mopnkey see and monkey do is the funniest animal in the zoo (put thumbs in ears and wiggle hands)