Welcome to the Farm Room!!

1. Welcome to the Farm Room!!

2. Farm Room Schedule • 7:45-8:15 Arrival Centers • 8:15-8:20 Clean up centers, wash hands • 8:20-8:40 Read job chart, pledge, calendar, weather • 8:40-8:55 Breakfast • 8:55-9:00 Restroom • 9:00-10:00 Gross Motor Play • Outside weather permitting In auditorium for inclement weather • 10:00-10:10 Restroom • 10:10-10:20 Circle Time • Unit discussion, math skills, literacy skills, story time • 10:20-11:20 Center time & Small group math and literacy • 11:20-11:40 Clean up centers, wash hands, make beds • 11:40-12:05 Lunch • 12:05-12:15 Restroom • 12:20-1:45 Naptime • 1:45-2:00 Put up mats, restroom, wash hands, snack • 2:00-3:15 Centers • 2:30 Early bus dismissal • Pick up dismissal begins at 2:30-3:10

3. Homework Folders:Mondays & Wednesdays

4. Morning Routine

5. Circle Time Begins at 8:15

6. Classroom Jobs

7. Learning Routines

8. We go to breakfast @ 8:30

9. Gross Motor Time 9:00-10:00

10. Restroom

11. Circle Time Activities 10:10-10:20

12. Centers

13. Fine Motor • We are: • Exercising fine motor muscles • Enhancing eye-hand coordination • Recognizing and creating patterns • Practicing dressing skills • Classifying and sorting • Increasing language development

14. Block Construction Center • We are: • Using our fine and gross motor muscles • Classifying by shape, size, and color • Experimenting with balance and forms • Using our imagination • Testing our ideas • Recognizing quantity and number concepts • Discovering modes of transportation

15. Art • We are: • Expanding our creativity • Increasing our language development • Learning cooperation and sharing • Enhancing hand-eye coordination • Exercising our fine motor skills • Showing how we view things • Bringing ideas to life

16. Play-doh • We are: • Toning our manipulative skills • Focusing on creativity • Advancing fine motor muscles • Using our imagination

17. Dramatic Play • We are: • Learning cooperation • Using language skills • Verbalizing ideas and concepts • Understanding emotions • Communicating with others • Observing others • Using fine and gross motor muscles • Understanding feelings of others • Acting out real life situations

18. Library • We are: • Learning pre-reading skills • Developing language skills • Sequencing events • Recognizing that letters have meaning • Learning to take care of books • Experiencing quiet moments • Learning to create our own stories • Gathering information • Using our imagination

19. Science and Math • We are: • Learning and testing new concepts • Increasing language development • Learning to plan and discover • Observing • Predicting • Comparing • Drawing Conclusions • Experiencing sensory activities • Discovering how things work • Learning counting skills

20. To be opened soon!! Sand and Water We are: Focusing on sensory experiences Experimenting Discovering Measuring Weighing Enhancing our fine motor skills Music We are: Expressing creativity Learning different cultural music styles Practicing rhythm Focusing on listening skills Experiencing new instruments Computer We are: Using the computer as a learning tool to enhance pre-reading, math, and language skills Writing We are: Using our fine motor skills Increasing our language development Learning eye-hand coordination Putting thoughts into words Learning that print has meaning Learning about letters Enhancing pre-reading skills

21. Lunch

22. Naptime

23. Dismissals • Bus 2:30 • Pick-ups 2:30-3:10

24. Thank you for sharing your precious child with me!!