September

THEME: ME & MYSELF COLOR: GRAY SHAPE:
SHADOW

OBJECTIVES:
1. To learn about myself: differences and similarities
2. To discover that every person is unique and special.
3. To discover that everyone has feelings.
4. To discover that everyone has a body with many parts


Blocks:
My neighborhood
My house
My favorite place
My family
My pet house

Art:
Charcoal drawing
Clay art(pottery)
"jade"jewelry
Outdoor painting with water color
Silver jewelry
Clay beads
Yarn painting
Collages of body parts
Shadow art
Draw family members
"bark" painting
Celebration of me: placemats and cups
Shaving cream/play dough faces
Feelings collages

Science:
Five senses: taste, smell, touch, hear
Weight / height
Cook "my favorite food"
Look at skin, hair, fingernails with magnifying glass.
Matching game: body parts
Flannel board with body parts / growing stages
Thumb print cookies
Feel a shape
Color /shape corner
Body puzzle
Cotton ball touch

Literacy:
Make up story about walking home: smell flower, hear bird, see _______,
touch ________.
Flannel board story about feeling
"The little engine that could"
"Alexander and the terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day"
"Look what I can do"
"The Care Bears book of feelings"
Finger play:"I have two little hands"
Record children interview
Name symbols (name tags board)
"The house that Jack built.

Dramatic:
Inside my house
My favorite things corner
Family day
Celebrate me party
I can dress myself (buttons, snaps, zippers)
Laundry day / cleaning day
My friends and I picnic
Who am I?
My feelings: popsicle stick faces
Mom and dad clothes

Music:
Dancing shadows
Scarf dancing with favorite color
Magic wand
Musical bean bags
Leader of the band
Friendship circle
Sing and listen
Do as I do ("Did you ever see a Lassie?")
Singing stages
"This is the way I ________."
"There is no one in the world like me"

Playground:
Animal walk
Obstacle course
Blanket toss
Hopscotch
Jumpity jumpity
Streamers
One, two, ready, run
'Round and stop

Rain day activities:
Musical cues: skip / gallop
Obstacle course: crawl under table, around chair, through box, jump
over book
Amazing mazes
"I can _____________ on my feet'
Follow the tape
Animal moves

Holidays:
Labor day - 1st Monday
Celebrate "me" every week: my favorite pet week, my favorite toy week,
etc.