All+About+Me


 * Essential Questions || Why am I special? What makes up my Family? How to be a friend? || Skills and Content ||
 * Judaic Studies || Body Parts in Hebrew Af peh ozen ayin yad regel Mitzvot I can do wtih my body Sing songs and read books about it - Yodayim Lemaalah, Af peh Ozen, Yaish li Shtai Yodayim Play Morah Omeret with body parts. "I have a Mishpacha in my Hand" fingerplay Play Abba In the Middle to the tune of Farmer in the Dell. || adds to Hebrew language vocabulary

Discriminates likenesses/differences in real objects Becomes aware of body and personal space

Understands what is and what is not a Mitzvah || Shows increased feelings of self worth Verbalizes feeling ||
 * Language Arts || Make ALL ABOUT ME book - using words to describe each page. How are we special? What is a friend.? Experience chart: things that make me happy - sad. Make a book of "How to get to my house?" || Discriminates indinidual, culture, and community
 * Social Studies || Who is in my family? Acting out family roles Bring pictures with our families. My Book About Friends. Wood dress up dolls Show pictures of people with different feelings Feelings wheel and posters Boy, girl matching body parts game Wooden small house sorting game. Puppets to act out different feelings and role play. Feeling blocks with picture of kids on block to use when feeling angry. || Begins to understand family structures and roles

Shows increasing ability to understand feelings of other children Act out family roles || sorts objects and compares the group formed Begins to notice different shapes ||
 * Math || Measuring height and weight of child with conventional and unconventional methods -blocks Height Graph Eye color graph Meet shape monster and identify shapes. || Begins to understand the likenesses and differences in others
 * Science || What does your body look like? How is your body shaped? Body Parts || Discriminates individual ||
 * Social Skills || Work on sharing and taking turns with our friends. Discuss feelings: happy, sad, mad, silly, scared Work on Friends Book. Make a feelings doll with different feeling faces. || Shows increased ability to understand feelings of other children ||
 * Creativity/ Critical Thinking || Ask questions ( how many blocks will it take to be as tall as you?) Design your own paperdoll for our friends board. Paint handprints Make outline of our bodies and kids color in faces and clothes. Dance with scarves "I Can Can" - Write things we can do and put in can. Make feelings puppets || Understands size comparitives

Begins to add details in art

Shows creativity and imagination in using materials Expresses through movement and dancing what is felt through music ||
 * Resources || Starfall-all about me All about Me Books Books about Body ||  ||
 * Assessment || Observations Read over Me book with each child. ||  ||