September
Main Themes:
Clifford
Colours
Apples
We are currently doing an author study of Norman Bridwell. He writes the Clifford books.
We began by reading Clifford's First School Day We then discussed the colour RED as
Clifford is very red! This led us into a study of the colours. We are learning how to
read and write the colour names. We are learning a poem that Mrs. Teague got from the
KinderKorner website. Each morning we take turns reading the poem on the chart stand.
We also put a copy of the poem into our poetry duotangs.
Finally, we made a little booklet from the poem.
Each page had one line on it and we drew the pictures. You can use the poems that follow
as reading practice with your child. Ask them to read the poems together with you!
Here is our colour poem:
Colours
Orange is an orange.
Yellow is the sun.
Brown is the bear and
Purple is the plum.
Red is an apple.
Green is the tree.
Black is the witch's hat.
I can read!
Listen to me.
Here is a Clifford link to check out:
Mrs. Teague found a great site with lots of Clifford ideas for us.
Here is the link: 
We borrowed a few of the ideas.
We made a Venn diagram of things that were: BIG, RED, BIG and RED and NEITHER.
For BIG and RED we thought of:
a red schoolhouse, a fire engine, a train car,
a red truck, a big red tractor, a red firehouse and Clifford, of course.
As Clifford is R E D, the first color that we studied was red.
We have practiced printing the word red in our printing books.
We looked in magazines for red pictures to make a collage and we made a little red poem.
We brainstormed a list of words to add to the poem. The poem said:
I Like Red.
I like red_______.
I like red_______.
I like red_______.
I like red_______.
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The class came up with words like: roses, leaves, lipstick, ketchup, watermelons,
cars, crayons and even tongues!
This next song is one that we introduce in September and sing all year long.
We make funny clucking sounds after we sing "Good morning to the chickies and the hen."
and we make silly snorts after we sing "Good morning to the piggies in the pen."
This song was originally written by the McCrackens.
We have this song in the pocket chart and we pass out each word to a student and
we then build the song back up in the chart.
Good Morning Song
I say:
Good morning to the sun,
Good morning to the hills,
Good morning to the chickies and the hen.
Good morning to the rooster,
Good morning to the cow,
Good morning to the piggies in the pen.
Apples
Click above to be sent directly to the apple unit. Enjoy!
