Unit Objective: Help the children become aware of the changes that occur with fall. Help them find ways to create using items from nature. Show the children fun activities that can be done as fall comes and the weather gets colder. Reemphasis weather lessons from unit 1.
Introduce children to their five senses. Help them learn what their mouth, hands, eyes, nose and ears are used for. Allow them opportunities to use all five senses in new ways.
Day 1
9:30-9:40-Arrival/organized activities
9:40-9:50-Opening circle time. Songs/pledge/find name/weather board
9:50-10:00- Introduce "5 senses" bulletin board. Introduce the senses sight and sound
10:00-10:10- Use different objects to help the children explore sight (magnifying glass, binoculars, kaleidoscopes) then focus on sounds. Have children try to guess sounds of things in containers. Have half place ear on floor while the other half stomps. Put a comb to their ear and run finger through the teeth.
10:10-10:30-
Go for a walk, observe nature and collect leaves. Focus on sights and sounds.
Art Activity-use leafs have the children make "leaf people" (leaf is the body then they draw hands, face, feet) (This project might have to be adjusted due to weather-because let's face it most likely it will be snowing by October!)
10:30-10:40-Snack
10:40-11:10-Playtime
11:10-11:15-Clean up
11:15-11:30- whistle hide and seek. Give one child a whistle, that child goes and hides and then blows whistle for the other children to follow and find them.
Day 2
9:30-9:40-Arrival/organized activities
9:40-9:50-Opening circle time. Songs/pledge/find name/weather board
9:50-10:00- Senses smell and taste.
10:00-10:10- have a variety of items for the children to smell and taste
10:10-10:20-Take a walk focus on smells (probably not so much the tasting)
10:20-10:30- Popcorn animals (have the children glue popcorn into center of an animal outline)
10:30-10:40-Snack
10:40-11:10-Playtime
11:10-11:15-Clean up
11:15-11:30- smell matching game. Give each child a scented object and they have to find the other child with the same smelling object as they have.
Day 3
9:30-9:40-Arrival/organized activities
9:40-9:50-Opening circle time. Songs/pledge/find name/weather board
9:50-10:05- Sense of touch. Book "Our Hands" see how long they can go without using hands (have them place hands on head). Have "mystery bags" with items to touch inside.
10:05-10:15- take a walk focus on touch
10:15-10:30- Art Activity-paint an apple. A white paper plate is the apple. They can add a stem and decorate their apple however they like
10:30-10:40-Snack
10:40-11:10-Playtime
11:10-11:15-Clean up
11:15-11:30- sort the pictures onto the "5 senses" Bulletin Board
Day 4
Fall festival. Different activities that relate to all the senses
*Again we will work phonics into the unit. This is also a great unit for math because we can do lots of counting (count the trees as we walk, how many ears do we have, we are going to smell six items-lets count to six!)
*Also I am loving the idea of a word wall. Each unit can have a word wall so that the children can learn to recognize words with pictures and how those words relate to what they are learning. Your thoughts?
*Also I am loving the idea of a word wall. Each unit can have a word wall so that the children can learn to recognize words with pictures and how those words relate to what they are learning. Your thoughts?
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