• Book Time: Students look at books while we transition from play to Circle and we play quiet music as we wait for all students to arrive. A timer is set up to 5 minutes to give the children time to adjust.

• Teacher Reads Story or has short Theme/ Unit Lesson or use surprise box that has a themed object inside to talk about .

• Review Circle Time Book with rules embedded in the expectations

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• The children either verbally reply or use a communication device

• Also ask if child is happy or sad. Point to pictures if unable to verbalize and hand child an unbreakable mirror to show how he or she feels

• Who is here? We match names/and pictures. An example would be to match a laminated paper farm animal to a laminated paper barn with child's picture on it .

 

• Child makes activity choice with choice wheel

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• Colors: Match a color or choose a color ( example: color fish from a fish net)

• Shapes : Have a shape bag with shapes inside. Child pull out a shape and exact matches it on a shape outline

• Days of the Week / Calendar: Exact Match day of week 

  

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  I change the days of week to reflect themes I am teaching.

  • Play a days of week song I downloaded and point to the days of week after exact matching today's day

  • Talk about :

  • Yesterday was____, Today  is ___ and Tomorrow will be___

• Weather and Weather Graph :

  • Decide the weather is ___ or make choice from 2 pictures.

  • Put weather picture up on board

  • Turn our weather wheel to right picture

  • Count the number of days of sunny, cloudy, rainy or snowy

• Numbers:

  • Exact match a number pulled from a bag

  • Point to numbers as we sing "The Number Rock"

• ABC's :

  • Exact match letters that is pulled from a bag if able to do so

  • Point to letters while the song " ABC Rock" plays

  • Speech Practice/Phonics Practice: Sing Dr. Jean's "Who Let The Letter's Out" 

    • This is great for the little ones with speech and language delays since they are practicing how to make all letter sounds.  The children love this part of Circle