Pre K Fine Arts

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First Quarter

THEME

CONTENT

ASSESSMENTS

ILLINOIS

EARLY LEARNING STANDARDS

 

Non Attendance Week

 

 

 

Non Attendance Week

 

 

 

Adjusting to school      Establishing routines and procedures

 

 

 

Adjusting to school       Establishing routines and procedures

 

 

Family

Centers

Art Easel Art Paper Collages

Art Making Musical Instruments, Painting with Marbles, Drawing with Chalk

Songs, Word Play, Letters Down By the Bay, Old MacDonald Had A Farm, Head Shoulders Knees and Toes, BINGO, Five Little Ducks, Wheels on the Bus

Anecdotal Notes/Checklists based on teacher observation

25AECd

25BEC

26AECc

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Second Quarter

Halloween

Centers

Art Easel  orange, green and brown paints

Art Paper Pumpkins, Shaving Cream/Glue Ghosts, Pumpkin Pie Play dough, Witches

Small Group Finger paint Pumpkins

Songs, Word Play, Letters Witches Brew, Skin & Bones, 5 Little Pumpkins, 3 Little Witches, Looking for Dracula

Anecdotal Notes/Checklists based on teacher observation

25AECc, d

25CEC

26AECc, d

26BEC

Friends

Centers

Art  Making Drums, Making Stationary, Crayon Rubbings, Drawing with Chalk, Making Clay Dough Cookies, Making Clay Dough Pizza, Decorating Our Piñata, Crayon Resist, Watercolors

Easel   Pizza Painting, Painting with a Basic Set of Colors

Songs, Word Play, Letters The More We Get Together, Eentsy Weentsy Spider, 5 Green and Speckled Frogs, 5 Little Ducks, Down By the Bay, Come On and Join in the Game, If You’re Happy (And Those Words Begin with the Same Sound), Story Character Bingo, What Are You Wearing?,  Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes, Old MacDonald Had a Farm, The Wheels on the Bus, Open, Shut Them

Anecdotal Notes/Checklists based on teacher observation

25AECc, d

25CEC

26AECc, d

26BEC

Christmas

Centers

Art Christmas Candles, Gift Cans, Friends are the Best Gifts Ornament, Snowman Film Canister Ornament

Small Group  Santa Art, Snowman Ornament, Journals

Songs, Word Play, Letters  Here is the Chimney, Up On the Housetop, Rudolph, Frosty the Snowman

Anecdotal Notes/Checklists based on teacher observation

25AECc, d

25CEC

26AECc, d

26BEC

 

Third Quarter

  

THEME

CONTENT

ASSESSMENTS

ILLINOIS

EARLY LEARNING STANDARDS

Wind

&

 Water

Centers

Art Play Dough, Decorating Pinwheels and Paper Box Templates, Painting with Straws, Marker Painting in Box Lids, Art Clay, Spray Painting

Easel   Painting with a Basic Set of Colors, Painting with Colors from Gilberto and the Wind, Markers and Spray Bottles, Painting with Colors from Rabbits & Raindrops, Paper Snow People

Songs, Word Play, Letters Open, Shut Them, Eentsy Weentsy Spider, Five Little Ducks, If You’re Happy, What Are You Wearing, Wheels on the Bus, Looby Loo, BINGO, Head and Shoulders, Willoughby Wallaby Woo, Come On and Join in to the Game, Down By the Bay, Old MacDonald Had a Farm, I’m a Littler Teapot, Clap Your Hands, Apples and Bananas, Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star, The More We Get Together, Five Green and Speckled Frogs

Small Group  Drying and Reconstituting Clay

Anecdotal Notes/Checklists based on teacher observation

25AECc, d

25CEC

26AECc, d

26BEC

Valentine’s Day

Centers

Art

Easel  Red, White, Pink, Purple Paint, Heart Shaped Paper

Small Group  Foam Stamps, Fold over Hearts,

Songs, Word Play, Letters  HEART

Anecdotal Notes/Checklists based on teacher observation

25AECc, d

25CEC

26AECc, d

26BEC

Dr Seuss

 Small Group  Fish Bowl Art, Cat in the Hat Hats, Gertrude McFuzz with Feathers, Cat in the Hat Cut and Paste

Songs, Word Play, Letters  Looby Loo, Hokey Pokey

Anecdotal Notes/Checklists based on teacher observation

25AECc, d

25CEC

26AECc, d

26BEC

Fourth Quarter

THEME

CONTENT

ASSESSMENTS

ILLINOIS

EARLY LEARNING STANDARDS

The World of Color

Centers

Art   Finger painting, Play Dough Coloring, Painting with Straws, Paper Collage Posters of Fruits, Vegetables and Flowers, Cutting Out Paint Swatches, Decorating Color Alphabet Book Covers, Creating “I Spy” Sculptures

Easel   Making Dragon Shirt Paintings, Painting Dog’s Colorful Spots, Mixing Paint and Saving New Colors, Still Life Paintings

Songs, Word Play, Letters Apples and Bananas, Five Green and Speckled Frogs, What Are You Wearing, I’m A Little Teapot, Looby Loo, If You’re Happy, The Green Grass Grows All Around, Down By the Bay, Clap Your Hands, BINGO, Come On and Join in to the Game, Head Shoulders, Knees and Toes, Barnyard Song, The Wheels on the Bus

 

Anecdotal Notes/Checklists based on teacher observation

25AECc, d

25CEC

26AECc, d

26BEC

Things That Grow

Centers

Art Printing with Vegetables, Making Compost, Making Bird Feeders,  Pressing Flowers, Creating ”I Spy” Sculptures, Tracing Bodies

Easel Exploring Green, Painting with Basic Colors

Small Group Journal Drawing, Making Nests with Egg

Songs, Word Play, Letters Down by the Bay, Looby Loo, Wheels on the Bus, Apples and Bananas, Green Grass Grows all Around, Clap Your Hands, I You’re Happy, I’m a Little Teapot, Barnyard Song, Eentsy Weentsy Spider, Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes,

Anecdotal Notes/Checklists based on teacher observation

25AECc, d

25CEC

26AECc, d

26BEC

 

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