Daily Routines and The Coming Week

I tried a few days ago to share my daily routines with you and had some trouble getting the post to publish. I wanted to share our daily routines with my parents, just in case you were wondering.

1. Morning/Arrival Work: This is usually a coloring activity related to our weekly theme.
2. Carpet/Circle Time: We start with the song "Rise and Shine and Welcome to School Today".  We spend a few minutes talking about what we did over the weekend or the afternoon before.  Then, we talk about what day of the week it is and what month we are in, we sing songs about both of them. Then we do our reading activity.  This includes talking about the cover of the book; title, author, illustrator, looking at the pictures in the book, reading the book and retelling the book.
3. Activity: We do an activity that is related to the book or our theme for the week.
4. Carpet/Circle Time: This time we talk about the alphabet and the letters of the sounds.  We talk about our skill for the week (rhyme, syllables, compound words, etc.) and sing our song for our color of the week.
5. Color activity: We usually try to do an activity that relates to our color of the week.
6. Center Time or Recess: Center time includes: playing with blocks, Lego's, dolls, puppets, dress up, Play Dough, puzzles or reading books.
7. Snack Time: Then it's time to go home
TIME FLIES BY! We often do not get all of these things done, but we do try to do the basics.

The next two weeks are going to be busy, busy, busy! With fall break coming up, we have two short weeks.  Short weeks always mean squeezing in everything we need to get done. Next week our theme will be transportation and the following week is fire safety week, so we will have a fire theme.