Playon Rishon

Last update: May 24, 2007

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May 07 -The Three Billy Goats Gruff...story and drama April 30 - We're Going on a Bear Hunt April 23 - Erev Yom Haatzmaut - no class April 16 - The Sneetches - acceptance of others. April 9 - Pesach - no class. April 2 - Erev Pesach - no class March 26 - Passover Theme March 19 -***** March 12 -The Hungry Caterpillar March 5 -***** Feb 26 -Shapes Feb 19 -no class Feb 12 -no class Feb 5 -***** Jan 15- Cancelled Jan 8 -Songs and Review Jan 1-The Senses Dec.25-The Food Pyramid Dec.11-Puppies!!!! Dec.4-Clocks and food Nov.27-clocks Nov.20-Days of Week Nov.13-Review Nov.6-MoreBirds Oct.30-Birds Oct.23-Migration2 Oct.16-Migration1 Oct.9-Seasons Sept.25-"B"is for book Sept.18-RoshHashanah

Lessons - 2006-2007

September 2006
Sept. 4	Sept. 11	Sept. 18	Sept. 25
****	****	Rosh Hashanah	"B" is for book....
October 2006
Oct. 9	Oct. 16	Oct. 23	Oct. 30
The Seasons	Migration1	Migration2	Birds
November 2006
Nov. 6	Nov. 13	Nov. 20	Nov. 27
****	Review	Days of the Week	Clocks
December 2006
Dec. 4	Dec. 11	Dec. 18	Dec. 25
More Clocks, and Food	Puppies!!!!	****	The Food Pyramid See the Rehovot page
January 2007
Jan. 1	Jan. 8	Jan. 15	Jan. 22
Shapes	Songs and Review	Cancelled	Songs and Games
February 2007
Feb. 5	Feb. 12	Feb. 19	Feb. 26
Design & Symmetry	Cancelled	Family Day (Cancelled)	Shapes Shapes Book
March 2007
March 5	March 12	March 19	March 26
Purim! No Class	The Very Hungry Caterpillar Butterfly TP roll craft Catterpillar chant	Storytime. Put Me in the Zoo (Homework: draw your favorite circus act.)	Passover & Passover Lotto
April 2007
April 2/9	April 16	April. 23	April 30
Passover -no classes Are You My Mother Duck Greeting Card Song:Five Little Ducks	The Sneetches - Learning about acceptance	Erev Yom Ha'atzmaut - no class	We're Going on a Bear Hunt My Aunt Went to America Game Teddy Bear Rhyme
May 2007
May 7	May 14	May 21	May 28
The Three Billy Goats Gruff	Rehearsal no. 1	Online fun!	******
June 2007
June 4	June 11	June 18	June 25
Rehearsals and summer	Rehearsals and songs	More Rehearsals	End-of-Year Party!!

Note: Topics subject to change!!

Jan 14 - Getting to Know You

I gave out a printable book from EnchantedLearning. The children took them home to finish and bring back the next week.

Song. The Hello Song. From Dragon Tales.

Jan 21 - Green Eggs and Ham

We read the book. We talked about rhyming words. We played a board game. I handed out a book of easy spelling based on Green Eggs and Ham.

Jan 28 - The Mitten

We learned about mittens, gloves, scarves and hats.
Song: The Three Little Kittens
Similes: as red as a cherry, as yellow as the sun.
I read the book "The Mitten".
Homework. Children were given mittens on which they were to create a design. Next week we will describe our mittens to the group and the other children will have to draw it. Then we will see how close they came.
Want more worksheets related to "The Mitten?" Enchanted Learning. (Although a different version than my story: different animals and a different ending!)

A lesson about the Very Hungry Catterpillar and food.

March 11

CATERPILLAR CHANT
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What do caterpillars do? 
Nothing much but chew and chew.
What do caterpillars know?
Nothing much but how to grow.
They just eat what by and by
will make them be a butterfly,
But that is more than I can do
however much I chew and chew.

April 15

Today, in keeping with Yom HaShoah, and I wanted to do an appropriate theme without getting into "heavy" stuff, as I wasn't sure how much detail the children knew already.
I chose "The Sneetches" by Dr. Seuss. The Sneetches is a very obvious story about prejudice. You can see the full text here.(Ignore the stuff at the bottom.)
Instead of the idea of blue eyes,blond hair being "better" than brown eyes, dark hair, in The Sneetches, the ones with stars on their bellies were the snooty ones. Dr. Seuss, being Jewish, wrote this story because of antisemitism he experienced as a child
I followed this up with a worksheet. I also taught them the song: "Sing" and gave them the lyrics. If you don't know the tune, you can hear it here.

April 30

Today I read the delightful picture book "We're Going on a Bear Hunt."
In this book are lovely descriptive words while the children in the story go trecking through swishy grass, rivers, oozy mud, and more.
Here is someone's version of the text here.
We acted out the story using props to represent the different areas.
Here is a nice worksheet.
We also played My-Aunt-Went-to-America memory game where the kids had to first match letter cards with words that began with that letter.
I also taught them a Teddy Bear Rhyme and gave them a copy of it to color.

May 7

THE BILLY GOATS GRUFF

Today I read them the story of "The Billy Goats Gruff."
We did some worksheets and started to prepare scenery for next week, when we shall be dramatizing the story!
You can print out your own book if you wish here. It makes a delightful coloring book! (Print only up to p. 12.)

May 14

Today we used stick puppets in a puppet theatre to act out the story of the "Three Billy Goats Gruff."

May 21

Today it was only the girls, and I used this opportunity for some online fun.
The Billy Goats Gruff online. (Click on "Billy Goats Gruff")
A lovely musical story, 1002 Arabian Nights. (Click on "full screen")
Another musical story, The Sleeping Princess.
Replaying the stories will help reinforce the English.
We did a short practice of the play, and I emailed you scripts.