Garden of Blessings Child Care will be focusing on the study of "Our families and Our Homes." This unit covers the relationships of families; Who makes up a family, how families are similar and different, the roles of family members, and their various activities and routines. Children will learn the kinds of places families call home, and that there are families in the animal world as well as in the human world. The unit gives children many fun experiences with recognizing letter and numbers, hearing phonetic words, and doing simple graphs and charts.
We welcome any materials that you as family members feel would be helpful in the learning process. We particularly are looking for a family portrait of your child's family to display in the classroom. If you do not have one; we have a camera and can take a picture for you.
Preschool Skills Emphasized in the Unit:
Language/Reading
New vocabulary: names of family members, such as mother, father, sister, brother, love, home, etc.
Reading pictures and symboles; communicating with simple sign language
Becoming familiar with printed words
Rhyming words
Writing
Connecting print with the spoken language
Fine motor development through drawing
Writing in Journals
New words added to copy
Using stencils to form shapes, forms and upper and lowercase letters
Mathematics
Names of numbers
Counting
Ordinal numbers and the relationship to counted numbers
Creating and reading simple graphs and charts
Sorting things into related groups and arranging things in sequential order
Social Skills
Other
Similaries and differences in hair and eye color, height, age, etc.
Families in the U.S. and around the world (races , cultures, abilities, one parent. etc.)
Animal families
Different homes (house, apartment, mobile home, etc.)
THINGS WE HAVE IN THE CLASSROOM:
The kids are learning sign language of "love, mother, father, baby, friend"
Puzzles of various cultural families
We have Lincoln Logs to build buildings.
Multi cultural paints, makers, crayons, along with stencils and stamps
The little people of many colors
Doll House furniture
Doll House
Hispanic Puppet Family
Stuffed Animals Familes
Floor Puzzles of Animal Familes
"Is your Mama a Lama?" Felt Story
Bookset of Families & Homes
The Napping House by Audrey Wood
Houses and Homes by Ann Morris
Full Full Full of Love by Tish Cooke
A Chair for my Mother by Vera Williams
Papa Do you love me? by Barbara M. Joosse
Simple Signs by Cindy Wheeler
On Mothers Lap by Ann herbert Scott
Daddy Makes the Best Spaghetti by Anna Grossnickle Hines
Is your Moma a Lama? by Deborah Guarino
Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown
We pretend to be little elves wrapping presents.
The raindeer hats light up.
Our Train Set.
We put little treasures from the classroom into the boxes. Then wrap them with wrapping paper and nylon ribbon. They love watching their friends open the present they made for them.
At story time we read the book and the kids play with the soft nativity set.
Little People christmas theme.
Little People with the three wise men and shepard.
Mary, Joseph, and baby Jesus with the manger and animals
The kids are learning sign language of "love, mother, father, baby, friend"
Puzzles of various cultural families
We have Lincoln Logs to build buildings.
Multi cultural paints, makers, crayons, along with stencils and stamps
The little people of many colors
Doll House furniture
Doll House
Hispanic Puppet Family
Stuffed Animals Familes
"Is your Mama a Lama?" Felt Story
Bookset of Families & Homes