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Preschool 2 week ofJanuary 26- Feb. 2_Theme _Animals, trains, friendship_____

	Fri. 12 pm Dismissal 1/26	Mon. 1/29	Tues. 1/30	Wed. 1/31	Thurs. 2/1
	Fan with bull’s head (Spain)	No School Teacher Curric./ Work Day	Fan with bull’s head (Spain)	Pop up groundhog (U.S.)
	Sloppy gluing		Sloppy gluing
Messy Media	Blue playdough		Blue playdough
	Train		Train
or	Sand		Purple sand
	Legoes/Duplos		Legoes/Duplos

	Wendy’s brownies		Oyster crackers	Oatmeal cookies	Oatmeal
	How Do Dinosaurs Play with Their Friends? By Jane Yolen; illus. by Mark Teague		The Umbrella written and illus. by Jan Brett	Yo! Yes? Written and illus. by Chris Raschka	Girls Hold Up This World by Jada Pinkett Smith; photos by Donyell Kennedy-McCullough
Songs/fingerplays we are trying to learn
Special event			Make oatmeal cookies for Wed. snack

FYI Tuesday February 2^nd is Groundhog day- Will he or won’t he see his shadow?

http://www.groundhog.org/history/tradition.shtml

Adapted from "Groundhog Day: 1886 to 1992" by Bill Anderson)

Groundhog Day, February 2nd, is a popular tradition in the United States. It is also a legend that traverses centuries, its origins clouded in the mists of time with ethnic cultures and animals awakening on specific dates. Myths such as this tie our present to the distant past when nature did, indeed, influence our lives. It is the day that the Groundhog comes out of his hole after a long winter sleep to look for his shadow.

If he sees it, he regards it as an omen of six more weeks of bad weather and returns to his hole.

If the day is cloudy and, hence, shadowless, he takes it as a sign of spring and stays above ground.

All Aboard the Friendship Train

Music and words composed by Alicia Chin-Gibbons, Norma Santiago and Wendy Yaffe 1/07

All aboard the train, all aboard the train