November Preschool Themes
October 31-Nov 4th-Spider’s then… Ship Shapes on the Cape
November 7-10th (11th Veteran’s day no school) – Cape Cod Harvest
November 14-18 Thankful for Cape Cod
November 21st and 22nd- Our Feast!! (sharing and Caring)
Hello All,
Much has happened in the preschool room since the beginning of October. We are rapidly learning
each other’s names. We had a well attended Parent’s night! We also practiced our fire drills and
visited with the Orleans fire fighters! Some of us enjoyed beating leaves to see how moisture and
color are still inside some of our plants before they dry out and turn brown. We weighed apples
,pumpkins and acorns.!
We truly live in a wonderful place and there is nothing so familiar to children as where they live
and what they see every day! So we will talk about Cape Cod. What town we live in and what is
special to our town. Parks, Beaches… etc.. You may even find that YOU have homework with your
child! (We won’t make it too difficult I promise) We will continue in the second week of Nov. to
discover what food grows here, what some local occupations are that involve local agriculture. The
last full week we will journey through Cape Cod now and Then,, Fish, Cranberries, Clams,
Asparagus, Turnips, Salt Etc. As we delve into these themes we will continue to integrate skill
building into our daily work. It will be a fun month culminating in a FEAST that we share with the
Downstairs Children. We each cook something and then eat a shared snack together!…
Some of the Skills we Will be working on:
Fine Motor: Cutting, Gluing, Stringing small objects. Using Tweezers, Sciccors, and Kid Knives!
Social Skills & Dramatic Play: How to kindly ask others to Stop, kind words and actions, ways to
help our friends feel included. Group dramatic play in our ship/boat, pretending to be fishermen,
clammers, farmers..How a community works together to provide food and shelter.
Math/Science: cooking, growing, comparing root veggies and above ground veggies,Salt in our
water.. we can’t see it but it’s there, What can salt do? Why is it important? Floating and
Sinking, How does a pumpkin look when it rots? What happens to it? Observing our new Pet..
Patches the G.P. Graphing where we live, our favorite beaches.. etc…
Language: Dictating our favorite things we like to do on cape cod, Heavy-Light, bumpy- Smooth,
as well as always learning new lyrics to familiar and also new songs.. We will learn the Cape Cod
Kids Sea Shanty! And hopefully have some new Enrichement visitors.. We will keep you posted!
When we come back from Break:
Nov. 28th-Dec. 2nd We will be Talking about Cape Cod Transportation
Mrs Schneider (M-F), Mrs Donlon (M-F, ) Mrs Amerault (M-F)