Things that GO! Week 4- Letter D

Things that GO! Week 3- Letter C

I have Emergency Vehicles.  We had the blessing of moving this month into a new house and I actually get a school area so I will post pictures of that later, when it is set up better.

Gathering Time

Jobs: Opening Prayer, Pledge of Allegiance, Weather Report, Song

Letter of the Day: 

• Letter C: Play the Letter “C” song from ABC Mouse, talk about what words start with C do the letter bucket. Then have the boys do the Do-a Dot letter C sheet using circle stickers (the kind you generally use for garage sales). 

 Story Time: the first 3 books are mainly to look at and point to cool parts of the different vehicles the last 3 are stories for them.

1. What does it do? Ambulance By Josh Gregory
2. Fire Trucks on the Move by Judith Jango-Cohen
3. Police car by Chris Oxlade
4. Fire Truck by Peter Sis
5. Even Firefighters Hug Their Moms by Christine Kole MacLean
6. Preschool to the Rescue by Judy Sierra

Number/Shapes/Colors:

• Number 3:
• Make groups of 3 using marbles, blocks, cars etc...
• Color the Emergency Vehicles Picture I have with 3 different emergency vehicles on it, talk about what those emergency people/vehicles do. 

Mother's Choice:

• Paper Ambulance, fold and make these and then play with them for a bit and put them in our cubby to take home. 
• I am TRYING to arrange a police man to come by the house during the 3 hour block to let the boys see his car and hear the sirens etc...
• Obstacle course in my back yard pretending they are firefighters saving different things from dangers in the back yard. 
• Practicing Stop/Drop/Roll
• Play Red Light/Green Light with me as the "Police Officer"

The Wrap Up: Clean up current activity, wash hands, and Eat Lunch.

Mom's pick Up around 12:30!

Things that GO! Week 2- Letter B

Things that GO! Week 1- Letter A

Construction Trucks Preschool Outline

September 2

Gathering Time (9:30-9:45): Coloring Sheets (construction trucks), puzzles, magna tiles

Jobs (9:45-10:00): Opening Prayer, Pledge of Allegiance, Weather Report

Letter of the Day: (10:00-10:15)

            Letter A: Trace with Cars, talk about things that start with A (Ant, Apple, Airplane), Matthew does Letter Bucket

STORY TIME: (3 books) (10:15-10:30)

1.      Goodnight, Goodnight Construction Site by Sherri Duskey Rinker and Tom Lichtenheld

2.     Roadwork by Sally Sutton

3.     Digger Man by Andrea Zimmerman and David Clemesha

Number/Shapes/Colors: (10:30-10:45)

            Blocks:

Make a letter A

Painters tape of shapes: have them use the blocks to fill in the shape

Count the blocks in a tower

What color are the blocks

Block city for the cars to drive in

                        How many blocks can our dump truck hold? 

Song time:

            Johnny Had One Hammer

(Make up and down motion with one hand in a fist as if pounding a nail)

Johnny had one hammer, one hammer, one hammer,
Johnny had one hammer then he had 2.
(Make same motion using both fists as if pounding two nails)

Johnny had 2 hammers, 2 hammers, 2 hammers,
Johnny had 2 hammers then he had 3.
(Make same motion using both fists and one leg as if pounding three nails)
Johnny had 3 hammers, 3 hammers, 3 hammers,
Johnny had 3 hammers then he had 4.
(Make same motion using both fists and both legs as if pounding four nails)
Johnny had 4 hammers, 4 hammers, 4 hammers,
Johnny had 4 hammers then he had 5.
(Make same motion using both fist, both legs, and up and down head motion as if pounding five nails)
Johnny had 5 hammers, 5 hammers, 5 hammers,
Johnny had 5 hammers, then he went to sleep.
(Pretend to lay head on a pillow and go to sleep)

Did You Ever See A Bulldozer? (adapted from Did You Ever See a Lassie?)
Did you ever see a bulldozer,
a bulldozer, a bulldozer,
Did you ever see a bulldozer,
Go this way and that?
Go this way and that way,
Go this way and that way,
Did you ever see a bulldozer
Go this way and that?

MOM’s CHOICE: (11:00-11:45)

            DRIVING CARS OUTSIDE:

Bubble Wrap and roll dump trucks on it

            Chalk a maze with numbers on it and have them count through the numbers with cars

            Sandbox play with trucks in sandbox

11:45--Pick up, wash hands & Read: Mike Mullgan and his Steam Shovel by Virginia Lee Burton

12:00 Lunch time (prayer over food)

About the Moms

Mom 1-
Mom 2-
Mom 3-
Mom 4- I organized the co-op and recruited moms of boys that my son seemed to talk about on Sundays after church. My son is the youngest boy in the group and he is also my first child and I wanted something more structured for me as a mom and for him because he really needs to be engaged and active. I have an almost 2 year-old daughter and a baby due in November. I thought a co-op would be the best way for my son to get what he needs and also get a bit of a break during the week and spend some 1-on-1 with my daughter before she becomes an older sibling.

Overview of Our Co-Op

The four of us all attend the same church, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Our boys attend a Sunday Nursery together and we decided to do an all boys co-op for the 2013-2014 school year. Each month has a theme and each week has a letter. We will all follow the same general schedule within our theme/letter but other than that we have organized it in a way that gives each mother/teacher the ability to bring out what she does best in ways that she feels are best.

We are doing our co-op every Tuesday for 3 hours.

            Schedule of the Day

1)  Gathering Time while kids arrive (10-15 Minutes)

2)  Jobs (15ish minutes)

3)  Introduce the Letter

i)      Tracing/ Sounding it out/ Capital and Lowercase etc…

4)  Connect the letter to the theme in a fun way

5)  Letter Bucket and Story Time- Read a story/stories about the theme or the letter.

6)  Number Time/Shape/Color

i)      If we are on the number trace number count etc… If it is shape or color come up with a fun way to learn about that thing.

7)  Mix of Mom’s Choice-mom of the week can choose from the following activity categories and make them apply to the theme, letter or number as she wants.

i)      Music Time

ii)     Show and Tell (if the mom plans on doing this she needs to let the other moms know)

iii)    Experiment

iv)   Physical Activity

v)    Color and Shape activities

vi)   Craft

vii)  Free Play/ Other

8)  Lunch Time Starts around 12:00- The Lunch Prayer child says prayer and the kids eat and then are picked up!

  Monthly Theme!

September- Things that GO!	February- Animals
October- Seasons- Each mom takes one	March- Bugs
November- Space/Planets	April- Ocean
December- Group Party only	May- Plants
January- Dinosaurs	Summer Time!!!!