Costello Building Blocks- Weekly Happenings: November 3- 7, 2014

Description
Plan-DoReview

Small
Group
Activities

PLANNING Time, WORK Time, RECALL Time

This three-part sequence is unique to the HighScope Curriculum.
Occurring daily, it includes a 10- to 15-minute period during which
children plan what they want to do during work time (the area to visit,
materials to use, and friends to play with); a -minute work time for
children to carry out their plans (or shift to new activities that interest
them); and another 10- to 15-minute period for reviewing and
recalling with an adult and other children what they've done and
learned.
1.

Bingo:

A great exercise for practicing listening and following direction

skills, as well as a fun gamechildren covered their square when
that picture was called. When the childrens entire board was
covered they yelled out BINGO!
2. Pattern Cards:
Children worked with patterning blocks in different shapes and sizes
and pattern cards. They worked to match the shape and color of their
blocks to that on their card. When children were done with their cards
they switched with a friend and tried a new one. Children also worked
together to help their friends when they had questions or felt stuck.
3.

Water Color Leaves:

Using coffee filters and water color paints children used the colors of
fall to paint their coffee filters. Their coffee filters were then turned
into leaves and hung out our bulletin board tree in the hallway.

4.

Leaf Patterning:

Using printouts of different fall leaves, children worked to pattern

their leaves in various patterns. (a-b, a-a-b, etc.)

5. Duck Duck Goose:

We were able to get into the gym today! Some children had played
Duck, Duck Goose before but some hadnt. We spent time reviewing
the rules of the game and then spent the rest of our time playing!
Each child got a chance to be the ducker and the goose!

KDIs

Approaches to Learning: initiative, planning, engagement, problem solving, use of

resources, reflection

Social/Emotional: self-identity, sense of competence, emotions, empaty,

community, building relationships, cooperative play, moral development, conflict
resolution

Physical: fine motor skills

Language/Literacy: comprehension, speaking, vocabulary
Math: spatial awareness, part-whole relationships, unity, data analysis
Science: observing, classifying
Social Studies: decision making

Physical: fine motor

Language: comprehension, speaking, vocabulary
Math: counting, part-whole relationships, shapes, spatial awareness, patterns
Science: observing, classifying, predicting, drawing conclusions, communicating
ideas
Social Studies: diversity, decision making

Physical: fine motor

Language: comprehension, speaking, vocabulary, concepts about print, book
knowledge
Math: spatial awareness
Creative: art
Science: communicating ideas, natural and physical world, tools
Social Studies: diversity, decision making

Physical: fine motor

Language: comprehension, speaking, vocabulary, concepts about print
Math: counting, part-whole relationships, shapes, spatial awareness, patterns
Science: observing, classifying, predicting, drawing conclusions, communicating
ideas
Social Studies: diversity, decision making

Physical: gross motor, body awareness

Language: comprehension, speaking, vocabulary
Math: counting, spatial awareness
Creative: movement
Science: classifying, communicating ideas
Social Studies: diversity, geography

Costello Building Blocks- Weekly Happenings: November 3- 7, 2014

Large
Group

Songs, Fingerplays & Activities:

Song
Birthdays
Seven Days of the Week
The Itsy Bitsy Spider
Silly Willies
The Days of the Week
Put Your Finger On
Country Countdown
ABC Bones
B-I-N-G-O
The Freeze
Friends
The Number Rock
Learning Letter Sounds

Artist
Jack Hartmann
Jack Hartmann
Jack Hartmann
Greg & Steve
Greg & Steve
Parachute Express
Dr. Jean

Approaches to Learning: engagement

Social/Emotional: sense of competence, community
Physical: gross motor skills, fine motor skills, body awareness
Language/Literacy: comprehension, speaking, vocabulary, phonological
awareness
Math: number words and symbols, counting, part-whole relationships
Creative: music, movement
Social Studies: diversity

--Greg & Steve

Jack Hartmann
Greg & Steve
Jack Hartmann

DiscussionLetters & Their Sounds:

Every letter has a name
Each letter has its own sound
Sometimes the letters can have more than one sound
Practice with the letters and their sounds
Literature:

Book Title
ABC Time
Froggy Goes to the Doctor
Gregory the Terrible Eater
That Toad is Mine
Friends
Roar-A-Noisy-Roar

Author
Christina Ong
Jonathon London
Mitchell Sharmat
Barbara Shook Hazen
Helme Heine
Pamela Duncan Edwards

Language & Literacy: comprehension, speaking, vocabulary, phonological

awareness, alphabetic knowledge, concepts about print, book knowledge

Sensory
Table
Rice, measuring cups, bowls

Approaches to Learning: initiative, planning, engagement, problem solving

Social/Emotional: self-identity, sense of competence, emotions, community,
cooperative play, conflict resolution
Physical: fine motor, body awareness

Costello Building Blocks- Weekly Happenings: November 3- 7, 2014

What
were
working
on at
school
that you
can work
on at
home

Coats and zippers!

Weve been working hard on becoming independent with our skills.
The children can all put on their own coats and jackets and most of
them can zip them on their own. The children that cant quite zip are
encouraged to try before a teacher assists them. You can support us
and your child at home by having them put on their own coat and
jacket when its time to go somewhere, and practice zipping it on
their own too.

Creative: pretend play

Science: experimenting, communicating ideas, natural and physical world, tools

Social/Emotional: self-identity, sense of competence

Physical: gross motor, fine motor, body awareness, personal care, healthy
behavior

pattern blocks & cards