Alvord Elementary PreK Pups

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Alvord Elementary Pre-K Pups
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• Teachers
• Mrs. McDaniel
• Mrs. Turlington

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  755 - 815 Morning Work and Daily Announceme
nts 815 - 910 Daily Literature and Language 9
10 - 915 Restroom Break 915 - 940 Recess 94
0 - 10 25 Assigned Learning Centers
1025 - 1035 Restroom Break 1040 - 1100 Lunch
1100 - 1130 Circle Time  
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Welcome Packet
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• Click here to view the Pre-K packet handed out at
  the beginning of the year.

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Curriculums
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• Creative Arts
• Language Arts
• Math
• Science
• Social Studies
• Technology

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Technology
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• Course Overview
• Children will explore educational computer games
  to learn concepts of math, language arts, social
  studies, and science. Children will use computer
  programs such as Jump Start Pre-K.
• The student will
• Identify basic technology tools computer,
  monitor, mouse, keyboard, printer, television, CD
  player, telephone.
  
• Demonstrate an understanding of the uses of
  technology and communication tools.
  
• Use a keyboard to type first name, letters, and
  numbers.
  
• Operate basic tools and functions mouse,
  keyboard, printer, click, double click, click and
  drag, back button, scroll button.

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Social Studies
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• Course overview
• Children learn how to cooperate in a classroom
  community. Children learn about America through
  picture books and songs. Our units include
  Families, Community, Transportation, Holidays,
  Fairy Tales and more.
• The student will
• Practice problem-solving skills in social
  situations.
  
• Work in groups or with a partner on a variety of
  projects.
  
• Share classroom materials with the group.
• Practice using manners please, thank you,
  excuse me, table manners.
  
• Communicate his/her needs.
• Take care of his/her own basic needs clean up,
  fasten clothing, use tissue as needed, etc.
  
• State personal information first and last name,
  age, school name, city, state, country
  
• learn basic concepts of history through
  stories.
  
• Recite the Pledge of Allegiance and the Pledge
  to the Texas flag.
  
• Recognize flags of the United States and Texas.
• identify the purposes and customs of holidays.
• Identify types of work and workers (police,
  doctor, farmer, bus driver, etc.)
  

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Science
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• Course Overview
• Children will explore and experience science
  through hands-on activities. We will chart the
  weather on a daily basis. Children will listen
  to non-fiction books read aloud.
• The student will
• Explore and investigate science materials
  magnets, prisms, magnifying glasses, color
  paddles, etc.
  
• Experience the world around them through nature
  walks, gardening, and other explorations.
  
• Observe insect life.
• Observe plant growth.
• Identify living and non-living things.
• Identify weather conditions sunny, rainy,
  cloudy, windy, cold, warm.
  
• Measure and mix ingredients in cooking
  activities.
  
• Identify eight basic colors.
• Keep records of observations by drawing pictures
  and dictating sentences.
  
• Identify simple parts of the body (arm, leg,
  foot, ankle, wrist, knee, back, etc.)
  
• identify our five senses.
• Describe weather and plant life during each
  season.

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Math
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• Course Overview
• Children learn mathematics readiness through
  hands-on activities, games and songs. Concepts
  include numbers, shapes, counting, sorting,
  patterns, and one-to-one correspondence.
  Children are assessed by observation and work
  samples.
• The student will
• Identify numerals 1-20.
• count objects to 20.
• Show one-to-one correspondence of objects.
• Sort objects by various attributes color,
  shape, size.
  
• Duplicate and create simple patterns AB, AABB,
  ABC, AAB.
  
• Identify and order sizes small, medium, large.
• Identify and order sizes small, medium,
  large.
  
• Identify simple shapes square, rectangle,
  circle, triangle, oval, diamond.
  
• Use terms more, less, same as to compare
  sets of objects or information on graphs.
  
• Understand simple time concepts morning,
  afternoon, night, yesterday, today, tomorrow.
  
• Recognize two or more types of money (penny,
  nickel, dime, quarter, dollar).
  
• Interpret object and picture graphs (more, less,
  same).
  

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Language Arts
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• Course Overview
• Pre-Kindergarteners are exposed to the alphabet
  and environmental print. They learn letter
  names, letter formation, and letter sounds.
  Children learn that print has meaning, to
  recognize and write their own names, to listen to
  and retell stories, and to create stories of
  their own.
• The student will
• Identify most upper and lower case letters and
  some letter sounds.
  
• Write his/her own name
• Recognize first name in print.
• Hold a pencil correctly.
• Retell familiar stories.
• Draw pictures, dictate words and/or use letters
  to write about stories and experiences.
  
• Answer questions about stories.
• Repeat simple nursery rhymes.
• Recognize beginning print concepts print
  follows a left to right direction, top to
  bottom.
  
• Recognize parts of a book.
• Identify the title, author and illustrator.
• Build vocabulary
• Build listening skills through songs, stories
  and rhymes.
  
• Strengthen visual discrimination.
• Identify similarities and differences, and match
  like objects.
  
• Develop fine motor skills, using play-dough,
  scissors, writing utensils, Legos, etc.

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Creative Arts
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• Course Overview
• Children will participate in activities in the
  areas of fine art, music, drama, and dance.
  Children will explore these areas in the
  classroom.
• The student will
• Create paintings and drawings.
• Use a variety of art materials crayons,
  tempera paint, watercolor paint, markers, chalk,
  modeling clay.
  
• Learn traditional songs and songs that enhance
  the curriculum.
  
• Participate in movement songs and dances.
• Use a variety of childrens instruments drums,
  sticks, bells, triangles, blocks, shakers.
  
• Participate in dramatic play at center time.
• Dramatize familiar stories using masks, puppets
  and felt characters.
  
• Act out the movements of animals and their
  sounds.

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Art At Home
Movement At Home
Language Arts At Home
Math At Home
Fine Motor Skills At Home
Science At Home
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Science at Home
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• Nature Walk
• Go on a nature walk in your neighborhood or in
  the woods. Collect small sticks, rocks,
  
• leaves, or wildflowers. You can use them later
  to make a nature collage or look at them
  
• through a magnifying glass.
• Magnets
• Let your child experiment with various objects
  and classify them as magnetic or non-magnetic.
  You can use a paper clip, screw, penny, pen cap,
  cork, crayon, etc.
• Bubble Solution
• Let your child mix his own bubble solution in a
  baby food jar. Use 2 Tbsp. Dishwashing liquid
  and ½ cup water. For blowers us a lid with the
  middle cut out, top third of plastic drink
  bottle, rigatoni, wagon wheel pasts, or cookie
  cutter.
• Chemical Reaction
• Let your child experiment with baking soda and
  vinegar to make a chemical reaction. Put baking
  soda in a paper cup and vinegar in another cup.
  Add amounts of one ingredient to the other and
  watch what happens.

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Art Activities for Home
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• Make an Art Kit
• Construction Paper Glue
• Plain Drawing Paper Colored Chalk
• Crayons Water Colors
• Markers Tempera Paint
• Scissors Colored Pencils
• Wax Resist
• Draw a simple picture with oil pastels (you can
  use crayons, but you must press hard).
  
• Then, paint over the picture with water colors or
  a thin mixture of watered-down paint.
  
• The drawing will show through the paint.
• Sculpture
• A great material for making sculpture is Crayola
  Model Magic. Use it to make
  
• anything animals, bugs, people, letters. If
  you use the white Model Magic, it can be painted
  
• When its dry.
• Baby Snake Painting
• Pour paint into several paper plates. Cut pieces
  of yarn into 3-inch pieces. Pretend the yarn
  

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Movement at Home
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• Teddy Bear Freeze
• Play a song and have your child make a teddy bear
  dance to the beat. When the music stops, the
  bear must freeze.
  
• Color Hop Scotch
• Lay squares of craft foam or felt on the floor
  (one of each color). Call out a color and have
  your child hop to that color mat.
  
• Red Light, Green Light
• Cut circles out of red and green cellophane and
  fit the circles in two flashlights. (Unscrew the
  flashlight and take the light out of the plastic
  rim. Put the colored plastic on the light, fit it
  back into the rim and screw the top back on.)
  Let your child choose a toy car to roll around on
  the floor when the green light is on. When you
  turn on the red light, the car should stop.
• OR---
• Have your child move when the green light is
  shining and freeze when the red
  
• light is shining.

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Language Arts Activities for Home
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• Shaving Cream
• Put a small amount of shaving cream on the table
  or on a tray. Spread it out and draw letters and
  numbers in the shaving cream with your finger.
  You may want to use a smock, but if it gets on
  clothes it fades away after a few minutes. When
  it is time to clean up, rub the shaving cream
  until it disappears, then wash the table or
  tray.
• Play-Dough Letters
• Either make imprints of letters using pasta,
  blocks, bottle tops, etc. or form letters from
  the play-dough.
  
• Name
• Write your childs name on a piece of
  construction paper in large letters. Glue on
  yarn, beans or glitter.
  
• Letter Magnets
• Provide letter magnets for your child to play
  with on the refrigerator or cookie sheet.
  

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Math Activities to do at Home
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• Gummi Bears Count
• Write a number on each paper cup. Pretend the
  paper cups are bear caves. Count out the correct
  amount of gummi bears for each cave.
  
• Candy Sorting
• Have your child sort colored candy by color.
• Candy Patterns
• Start a color pattern, such as red, yellow, red,
  yellow. . . Have your child continue the pattern
  by adding more red and yellow candy to the line.
  (Some patterns AB, AABB, ABC)
• Money Toss
• Toss five pennies onto the floor and count how
  many heads and tails.
  
• Dominoes
• Dominoes re great for learning counting and
  matching. Children have to count the
  
• dots on one side of a domino and match it to the
  same amount on another domino.
  

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Fine Motor Skills Activities
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• Scissors Play-dough
• Let your child use scissors to cut play-dough.
  This helps build fine motor strength and helps
  them learn to use scissors.
  
• Bolt Box
• Match and screw together various sizes of nuts
  and bolts.
  
• Bugs
• Let your child use tweezers to pick up plastic
  bugs and drop them in a jar or bug box
  
• Feed the Alien
• Decorate a 2-liter drink bottle to look like an
  alien (use puff paint, wiggle eyes, and other
  things). Let your child use a melon scoop to
  pick up marbles and drop them into the bottle.
• Clothesline
• Let your child use clothespins to hang socks or
  Barbie clothes on a string. You can tie the
  string between two chairs.
  

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Recipes for Fun at Home
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Recipes
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• Gingerbread Boy Cookies
• You need a gingerbread cookie (homemade or
  pre-packaged). A cup of white icing and
  
• popsicle stick spreader. Spread the icing on the
  cookie, then decorate with small candies.
  
• Lamb Cookies
• Spread marshmallow cream around the edge of a
  sugar cookie. Place chocolate wafer
  
• halves at the top for ears. Add chocolate chip
  eyes and nose. Make a mouth with gel
  
• icing.
• Monster Mash (serves one)
• Ingredients
• 1 scoop Boo Goo (vanilla ice cream)
• 1 Tbsp. Swamp Mud (chocolate syrup)
• 1 Tbsp. Spider Fangs (mini chocolate chips)
• 10 Mummy Toes (mini marshmallows)
• Place ingredients in a paper cup. Mash together
  with a plastic spoon. Top with a
  
• spoonful of slime (green tinted whipped cream)
  Devour if you dare!
  
• Ants on a Log
• Spread peanut butter on a large pretzel stick.
  Add raising for ants on the log.
  

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• Lion Cookies
• Spread peanut butter on top of a sugar cookie.
  Place vanilla wafer halves at the top for ears.
  Add candy corn around the edges (points inward)
  for the mane. Add chocolate chip eyes and nose.
  Make a mouth with gel icing.
• Spider Tea Cakes
• You need an unfrosted cupcake, cut of white
  frosting, popsicle stick (for spreading), 8
  pretzel sticks for legs, and a gumdrop. Choose
  any color of food coloring, and add one drop to
  the frosting. Let your child mix it, then spread
  on the frosting and add the pretzels and
  gumdrop.
• Traffic Light Cookies
• You need 3 vanilla wafers and three cups with a
  small amount of white icing in each. Add red,
  green and yellow food coloring to the cups and
  stir to mix the color and icing. Use a popsicle
  stick to spread the red, green and yellow icing
  onto the three cookies to
• make a traffic light.

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• Nutty Nests
• Ingredients (makes nine nests)
• 1 cup nut topping (finely chopped)
• ½ cup peanut butter
• 3 Tbsp flour
• Mix with a spoon. Roll a spoonful into a ball.
  Place ball on waxed paper and flatten slightly.
  Use thumb to make impression in center of the
  nest. Add small grapes for the eggs
• Hat Cookies
• You need a large sugar cookie, marshmallow,
  spreader, and cup of peanut butter. Use peanut
  butter to stick the marshmallow to the cookie.
  Decorate with colored sprinkles.
• Pinwheel Sandwich
• Spread jam onto a slice of bread. Cut the slice
  into four triangles. Arrange the triangles in a
  pinwheel shape. Put a round banana slice in the
  center.

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PlayDough Recipes
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• Play-Dough
• 2 cups flour
• 3 Tbsp. Cream of tartar
• ½ cup salt
• 4 Tbsp oil
• ½ cup boiling water
• Food coloring
• Mix dry ingredients together. Mix oil, food
  coloring and boiling water in separate container.
  Stir liquid mixture until cool enough to knead.
  Knead until smooth. If play-dough is too
  crumbly, knead in a small amount of oil. Store in
  an airtight container.
• No-Cook Play-Dough
• 4 cups flour
• 1 cup salt
• 4 Tbsp oil
• 1 ½ cup water
• Mix oil and food color together before adding to
  dry mixture. Mix until pliable.
  
• Keep in container or plastic bag.

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Septembers Student of the Month
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Age 4
My Favorite Activity Outside School Ride my bi
ke I like our principal, Mr. Crutsinger because
He visits our classroom

My Favorite Song Apple Annie My Favorite
Thing About School Playing with my friends
My Best Friend Macy My Favorite Lunch Chi
cken

• Faith

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Themes
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• Back to School
• Bears
• Transportation
• Ice Cream
• Pumpkins
• Spiders
• Leaves/Autumn
• Cookies
• Penguins
• Kings
• Monkeys
• Night/Nocturnal
• Farm
• Texas/Cowboy
• Volcanoes
• Seasons
• Zoo
• Honeybees

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pples Thanksgiving Winter Christmas Farm Love
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