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
- Taking responsibility for the classroom and ourselves
- Responsibilites of being a helpful family member
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
