Scarecrows - Farm Project
Continuing to grow our project
Scarecrows
The theme for this week continues to develop our understanding of farms with scarecrows. The focus is to increase students’ awareness of farming and protecting crops while crowing. We will discuss how birds are very hungry and how winter is coming soon. We will discuss the "ethical" choice of saving the crops or letting the birds eat. How can we solve this problem?
The theme will continue the study of nature. It will also review creating faces. We will continue to learn the letter and sound of s, and we will work on saying SCARECROW.
This week we will review many of the farm words and colors we learned over the last few weeks. We will review shapes and use shapes to create a scarecrow. We will flop around like a scarecrow and stand tall like the corn.
Books: The Scarecrow
Words/Colors:
New: Bird, Hay, Hat, Straw, Yellow, Red, Blue, Crow
Letters: review C, S making curves
Working with your Child
Conversation Starters
Talk about farms.
Visit a farm.
Make a Scarecrow to decorate your home.
Print the scarecrows from the google doc site, cut and color together.
Print and do the activities on the 1plus1plus1 site link below.
Check out Dingle Dangle Scarecrow on YouTube
Please Go to My Google Docs
Movement
Movement is essential:
We want to remind you about the importance of athletic activity in motor planning, decision making, socialization, concentration,focus, sensory regulation and self confidence. Soccer, Dance, Gymnastics, Karate, Skating and the like are important activities to weave into your child’s life. There are many programs. I encourage you all to share the types of programs you have tried and which ones were the most child friendly. We hope that every child is exploring the outdoors and using his or her body in an active way on a daily basis after his or her school day ends. Many children enter group sports activities and begin to learn while they are still in pre-school. There are many programs. Union County and Mecklenburg also have full special Olympics program. Contact the parks and recreation for more information.
http://www.co.union.nc.us/divisions/parksrecreation.aspx
http://charmeck.org/mecklenburg/county/parkandrec/Pages/home.aspx
Send in the Clothing
It can get cold as the weather changes.
Please pack a sweater or jacket in your child’s back pack.
Our classroom may be cold.
Also a light weight small blanket or throw will help your child feel comfortable.
We might need longs pants soon... one can hope!
Global Activitities
Traditional Stories, games and finger plays.
Career – Farmer
Indian Folk Story about Crows
Different culture of living on a farm
Effect of weather on food
How farmers protect their food.
Changes in Weather
Contact Me
Email: judith.freger@ucps.k12.nc.us