Unit Theme: Art Appreciation pt 2

Curriculum Goals: Logical Thinking/Reading and Writing

Curriculum Objectives: #30 Recognizes patterns and can repeat them #45 & #49 Understands print concepts and purpose of writing

Daily Routine	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Individual Planning
Arrival Routine Planning Centers	Open Snack Toothbrushing Manips: puzzles Writing: stencils	Open Snack Toothbrushing Manips Gears Writing Journals	Open Snack Toothbrushing Manips Writing	Open Snack Toothbrushing Manips Writing	AM BS, Bj ## 13 PT, HS, TJ, JP ##50
Morning Meeting Book Finger plays	Daily News Brown Bear, Brown Bear	Daily News The Mixed Up Chameleon	Daily News The Very Hungry Caterpillar	Daily News Little Blue and Little Yellow	#30 JW, AA #45 HG, TF, MH
Outdoors Gross Motor	Climber Bean Bags	Kick Ball Tumbling	Balance Beam Obstacle course	Gym Day What Time is it Mr Fox; Basketball
Free Choice Discovery Time	Work on Class Book and group murals Books of famous artists	Work on Class Book and group murals Books of famous artists	Work on Class Book and group murals Books of famous artists	Work on Class Book and group murals Books of famous artists
Art Experience	String painting	Sand and paper collage. Use shiny paper scraps & colored sand	Sponges cut in geometric and freeform shapes	“Use Your Head” paintbrush on helmet, paint at easel
Small Group	Computer: Kid Pix patterns	Computer; Name writing	Create patterns with scraps of paper (glue around border of paper like a frame, or go across paper, etc	Continue with patterning activity
Large Group Music/Movement Story Time	Sing “Brown Bear, Brown Bear” Bean Bag toss	Rainbow Fish 5 speckled frogs with props	I Want to Be a Firefighter discuss how photographs are used instead of illustrations	Have You Seen Birds discuss how the pictures look like they were made from clay
Transition Activity	Sleeping, sleeping	Alphabet pocket chart	Word Wall Match	Color clothes pins, clip on same color object in the room
Weekly Materials to Enhance the Environment
Literacy/Library/Writing Continue observing the art in books; making class book as group project (see special activities)		Numeracy/Math Manipulatives Select 3 books, children will vote on which book’s illustrations they like best and we will create a graph; see small group wednesday		Discovery/Science Discovery Tray: Things that change the way we see our world Kaleidoscopes, Magnifying glass Prisms, Color Paddles Binoculars, Mirror
Computer Create free form shapes in Kid Pix, fill with various textures and create a slide show Type name using a variety of fonts		Blocks Large hollow blocks and unit blocks, discuss the patters make with blocks; provide paper and pencils for tracing the blocks		Sensory/Sand/Water Super Sand
Vocabulary Collage, texture, words that describe textures, pattern		Dramatic Play Add new foods Check Book, Pocket Calendar		Health/Safety/Self-Help Chef Combo: Food Textures
Family/Community Partnership Invitations to Family Literacy Day Classroom website resources PICL Folders		Multicultural Exposure Use Rainbow Fish to launch a discussion of sharing, differences, the idea of community		Outdoor/Gross Motor Climber, Balance Beam, sidewalk chalk, ball, bubbles
Special Guests/Activities/Field Trips We will make a class book based on The Mixed up Chameleon. Text will reas “I wish I had the (blank) of a (blank). I would live (blank), I would eat (blank), etc”. Then draw/collage a picture for their story and use the photo for the head. Classroom Mural: Children will paint white paper w color of choice, when papers dry we will cut in pieces and collage on a very large sheet of paper