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Theme 5 Stories and Rhymes Week 1 Nursery Rhymes Dear Family, Week 2 Traditional Tales During the next four weeks, we will be discovering stories in many Week 3 Folktales forms and formats. Children will explore traditional and modern Week 4 Ballads and Fables rhymes; stories delivered through poetry, chants, and ballads; and stories from many cultures. Sometimes children will sing the Our character education stories. Sometimes they will role-play the stories, making the focus will be on developing the concepts of commitment characters come alive through their actions. Sometimes they will and loyalty. change familiar stories to create their own. Prepare to hear reports about the wonderful characters they are meeting. Literacy Math As we begin this theme, children will recite and learn Children will begin to collect data and organize it in many traditional nursery rhymes. Sometimes we give simple graphs. We use tally marks to keep track of them a bit of a twist like Dr. Becky Bailey has done our data. You will also hear your child using ordinal with “Wonderful Woman.” This poem is a new version numbers (first, second, third) to indicate order. Help of the traditional poem “There Was an Old Woman your child practice at home with a simple sorting Who Lived in a Shoe.” Learn this one and enjoy reciting activity. Make an observation. For example, say: The it with your child. glass of milk is bigger than the salt shaker. Ask your child to identify something else that is bigger than Wonderful Woman the salt shaker. Continue and then switch to smaller by Becky Bailey objects. Say: My carrot stick is smaller than the salt shaker. Physically sort the objects into two groups A wonderful woman lived in a shoe or keep a tally mark count. Repeat the activity with (hold hands) She had so many children other comparing words, such as longer and shorter, (“Lead” partner turns other partner’s hands thicker and thinner, heavier and lighter. over palms up) She knew exactly what to do. (“Lead” touches each finger of partner’s hand) She held them. She rocked them, Notes (“Lead” closes partner’s hand in a fist and rocks it gently) And tucked them in bed. “I love, I love you,” is what she said. For additional at-home activities, see the Stories and Rhymes PATT Mat. ©2010 Frog Street Press, Inc. Family Connections CD FSPK_Letters_English.indd 34 6/7/11 8:12 AM 11/3/10 2:02 PM calming calming oo T s r e h c a e Kite Breathing Kite T e r A s t n e r a P Pretend your hands are kites. Your arms arms kites. Your are hands your Pretend use will kites. 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Family Connections CD FSPK_PATT_English.indd 61 PATT Mat Lesson Plans for Stories and Rhymes • Cuentos y rimas - Nursery Rhymes (Week 1) Date Teacher January,08-12,2018 Ms. Mina Character Commitment, Compromiso Writer's Corner Wonderful Word culture, cultura Technology Education Loyalty, Lealtad Letter English-Aa, Bb, Cc, Dd, Ee, Ff Literacy Phonological Awareness (Rhyming) Math Counting, Whole-Part Relationship Knowledge Spanish-Aa, Bb, Cc, Dd, Ee, Ff alike, broth, crown, different, fleece, half, hare, injury, mystify part, radiant, tuffet, twinkle, whole, wounds English Vocabulary igual, caldo, corona, diferente, lana, mitad, liebre, lesión, desconcertar, parte, radiante, banquito, brillo, entero, heridas Spanish Vocabulary LESSON Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 Day 4 Day 5 COMPONENTS • Unite-Sing “The Nursery Rhyme • Unite-Recite the rhyme “Sana, Sana” • Unite-Sing along with "Nursery Rhyme • Unite-'Sing Nursery Rhyme Rap" (p. • Unite-Sing along with "Nursery Rap” (p. 181) tell the children this (p. 186) talk about how this is a rhyme Rap" (p. 181) or nursery rhymes on the 181) or songs from the Nursery Rhyme Rap." week will be about Rhyme the first from Latin America Nursery Rhymes CD. Rhyme CD. • Calming-Encourage children to get rhyme they will talk about is Humpty • Calming-Invite children to choose a • Calming-Invite children to choose a • Calming-ITell the children that they into a crawling position and move like Dumpty calming strategy and perform it. calming strategy and perform it. are going to pretend their hands are a kitten-slink, arch, and stretch. • Calming-Invite children to choose a • Connect-Invite children to perform • Connect-Tell children there are several kites. Their arms will be the string of Encourage them to arch their back calming strategy and perform it. the movements to "Twinkle, Twinkle, nursery rhymes that use the name Mary. the kites, and they wiill use their like a cat and then release the arch so • Connect-Recite the original version Little Star" (p.178) with partners. They are going to learn a nursery rhyme breath to create air for the kites. that their tummies are almost touching of Humpty Dumpty (p. 185) and then • Morning Message-Jack and Jill went about one Mary and her lamb. Teach Demonstrate (p.40) the ground. Have them inhale on the the cooperative version (p. 171). Ask up the hill. children "Mary had a Little Lamb" (p. • Connect-Play "My School Family" (. arch and exhale on the release. Next about the difference in the rhyme. 170). • 175). Encourage children to work with have them sit back on their heels Greeting Circle Have children identify a rhyme where Morning Message-Miss Mary Mack a partner. Instruct them to change stretching their arms and shoulders. people are helpful. wears black. partners every time they hear boom, • Connect-Invite children to sing and • Morning Message-Humpty Dumpty boom, boom. • move to "Get Ready!" (p. 174) Review sat on a wall. Humpty Dumpty had a Morning Message-Kites are rising in the words and then the movements great fall. the sky. that accompany the song. Explain that the activities in the song help our brains be able to focus and concentrate. • Morning Message-Three little kittens lost their mittens. Moving and “Stars and Stripes Forever” with “Ring around the Rosie” • “Ronda de “Miss Mary Mack” clapping game Dance with streamers to music Drop the Mitten • Deja caer el mitón musical eggs las rositas” singing game game Learning • Analyze and produce rhyming words Mandarin Class! • Identify letter at beginning of alliterative Mandarin Class! • Analyze the rhyming words mitten phrases and kitten Centers • Identify straight lines in alphabet letters • Retell the story of the three little Literacy (Oral • Language and Literacy-Match kittens Language, objects to create rhyming pairs Centers • Library and Listening- Match pairs of • ABC-Shape M or B with play dough Centers Phonics, sounds • Language and Literacy-Sort buttons by • ABC-Match magnetic letters to Handwriting, Read • ABC-Match alphabet letters attributes letters in alphabet book Aloud) • Library and Listening-Listen to and clap • Language and Literacy-Match pairs with chant of mittens • Library and Listening-Retell “Three Little Kittens” • “Tres lindos gatitos” . LESSON Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 Day 4 Day 5 COMPONENTS “This Is the House that Jack Built” • • Work with rhyming words “Hey Diddle Diddle” • Hey mentironsín Centers “Cucú” • “Ribbit, Ribbit” (Cultural “Ésta es la casa que Juan construyó” (Nursery Rhyme • Cuentos infantiles flip • ABC-Shape letters with string or Rhymes flip book) listening story (p. 196) chart) yarn • Display the rhyme talk about how it • Used the flannel story box created to Writer's Corner-Write Jack and Jill in • Recite the rhyme • Language and Literacy-Match comes from Latin America show this tell the story journal then have the children • Explain to the children that the animals rhyming words on a globe illustrate the nursery rhyme.