Ok, just getting organized for our first week. I’m still trying to decide what I am going to do to mark the special ‘first day’ of school.

Week One (Sep 2nd-5th)

Book of the Week:

Tops and Bottoms

Expansion Book:

The Veggies We Eat

Letter of the Week: A

A is for Apple Blossom

We will be coloring the Apple Blossom page from our Flower Fairies Alphabet Coloring Book and reading the accompanying story in the Flower Fairies Alphabet Book.

Click here to download an Italic Letter A Handwriting Practice Page.

Craft for the Week: Modeled food (use salt dough to form veggie food shapes, paint when dry)

See completed project and directions: Salt Dough Veggies

Baking Recipe for the Week: Carrot Cake

Carrot Cake

INGREDIENTS

Cake:

1 1/2 c. sugar

1 3/4 c. mazola oil

4 eggs

2 c. flour

2 t. soda

3 c. grated carrots

1/2 c. chopped nuts

1 t. vanilla

dash salt

1 1/2 t. cinnamon

Icing:

1 4 oz. package cream cheese, room temp.

2 t. vanilla

1/4 c. butter

powder sugar

DIRECTIONS

Mix all cake ingredients together. Pour into greased and floured 9×13 pan. Bake in 300 oven for 1 hour or until done. Let cool. Blend all icing ingredients together and frost on cooled cake.

Field Trip Idea:

Visit a Farmer’s market or grocery store. Spend time in the produce section comparing the types of veggies. Use the 5 senses to make observations on the veggies, try to determine which part of the plant you are eating top, bottom or middle. You might want to make some graphs comparing size, shape, color, taste, etc.

Poem of the Month for September:

Little Boy Blue

Little Boy Blue,

Come blow your horn;

The sheep’s in the meadow, the cow’s in the corn.

Where is the boy who looks after the sheep?

He’s under a haystack, fast asleep.

Will you wake him?

No, not I. For if I do he’s sure to cry.

Kindergarten/Preschool Term One Overview