September

Let’s Make Friends!

02.09-06.09 09.09-13.09 16.09-20.09 23.09-27.09
Kozyn

Chekhovskyi

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Harvest Time (fruits
Bulvarno-Kudriavska Let’s Make Friends! Classroom Supplies At the Playground and vegetables)

September
Topic of the Month: Let’s Make Friends
Story Time with Art
Primary School /Kindergarten Group (4-5 and 5-6)
Week 1 : Let’s Hello Time: How Do I Feel Today? Ben, the Bells and the Paper Plate Fingerprint Peacock Craft +Bye-Bye song
 “Ball Pass” discussion (emotions Peacocks book by Goal: learn words on friendship, develop motor skills,
Make Friends game
Materials needed: monster cards) +Wiggle Time develop creativity and imagination
Take a soft ball and Goal: learn different Goal: develop listening How to do it:
 Ball
pass it to your nearest emotion’s names, skills and attention, Craft:
 Emotions
student, saying "Pass". develop speaking enrich student’s  Role model presenting:
Monster cards
Have each student pass skills vocabulary with the key You should make it in advance, to get kids more interested
(from the
the ball around the How to do it: words from the story you might put it in a bag or box, or just hold it behind your
flashcards box)
circle. Next, hold the  Game: How to do it: back and ask kids to guess what’s it. Give them hints, like; “It
 Ben, the Bells
ball and say your name. Teacher places the Before reading the story starts with the letter…” , they will remember the words.
and the
Have each student say cards on a carpet to kids, ask them how Then show a role model and describe it with kids.
Peacocks book
their name as they pass faces down and tell they spent their summer  Materials and tools presenting;
 Hello song
the ball to each other. kids that today holidays, whether they All the materials should be prepared in advance, you can ask
Bye-Bye song
Make sure they pass, feelings monsters meet new friends while kids: “What do we need to make a…? (girl’s body, for
not throw, roll, etc. If a decided to visit their being on holidays, etc.
student doesn't pass, class, then the teacher Book reading:
make sure she/he does starts turning each 1. start with the title
it again until done card faces up one by and author of a
properly. one. Teacher turns book;
the card, names it and 2. focus kid’s attention
shows the emotion onto the pictures in
with the help of her a book, ask kids
mimics and gestures, related to the
students have to copy pictures questions
the emotion. After 3. use your mimics and
showing the emotion, gestures while you
teacher names it and read and offer kids
asks students to to demonstrate
repeat the word. After some actions ,
naming all the objects, moves,
emotions, teacher can faces expressions,
ask students the etc., from a book
question: “How do ( for example: “He
you feel today?” ,and was very sad- Show
help them to answer. me sad faces,
please!; The house
was really big! Is it a
big or a small house?
Yes, it’s big!- Show
me big,
please!”( such
method works well
with all ages, but
especially with
nursery-
prekindergarten)
4. explain unknown
words to kids
5. offer kids to
example), and demonstrate everything that is needed , kids
have to name.
Encourage kids to use “ social niceties”- polite phrases,
like: Could you…Would you give me/help me, etc., Can I …
May I have/take, etc.
 Craft’s making:
You have to comment all the stages of a process, ask kids
personally :
“(Child’s name), what are you doing now? “ and encourage
them to answer in complete sentences, like: “I’m cutting out
a leg now”, etc.
 Clean up time:
It’s very important to encourage kids to clean up their
working places, ask them to do it every time you make
something.
To find out how to make this craft and what materials are
needed, use the link below:
https://www.iheartartsncrafts.com/paper-plate-fingerprint-
peacock-kids-craft/
 Song:
Get familiar with the song in advance in order to know lyrics
and appropriate moves. Ask kids to sit in a circle or stand
and hold hands (it depends on a song) and sing the song
altogether
 envisage what is
going to happen
next in a story (they
give their variants
and you say: “Let’s
turn the page and
find out!”
 Wiggle Time:
Peel Banana
(starting from the
age 3 up to 6)
https://
www.youtube.com/
watch?v=Wl7PrtUDyEI

Week 2: Hello Time: Snow White and Seven Dwarves toilet paper roll craft +Bye-bye song
Classroom Hello Song Seven Dwarfs book + Goal: learn dog’s body parts names, develop motor skills, revise the numbers from 1-15
Classroom + Weather Wiggle Time How to do it:
Supplies flashcards Goal: develop Craft:
Materials needed:
Goal: manage a listening skills, enrich  Role model presenting:
 Weather Types
classroom and focus student’s vocabulary You should make it in advance, to get kids more interested you might put it in a bag or
flashcards
(from the kid’s attention onto a with the story’s key box, or just hold it behind your back and ask kids to guess what’s it. Give them hints,
flashcards box) lesson, learn weather words, develop like; “It starts with the letter…”, they will remember the words. Then show a role model
 Snow White types, develop speaking attention and visual and describe it with kids.
and Seven skills discrimination,  Materials and tools presenting;
Dwarves book How to play: develop speaking All the materials should be prepared in advance. You can ask kids: “What do we need to
 Seven Dwarves  Hello song skills make a…? (girl’s body, for example), and demonstrate everything that is needed, kids
templates Get familiar with the How to do it have to name.
 (additional song in advance in order Book reading: Encourage kids to use “social niceties”- polite phrases, like: Could you…Would you give
materials) to know lyrics and 1. start with the title me/help me, etc., Can I …May I have/take, etc.
 Hello song appropriate moves. Ask and author of a
Bye -Bye song kids to sit in a circle or book;  Craft’s making:
stand and hold hands (it 2. focus kid’s You have to comment all the stages of a process, ask kids personally:
depends on a song) and attention onto the “(Child’s name), what are you doing now?”, and encourage them to answer in complete
sing the song altogether. pictures in a book, sentences, like: “I’m cutting out a leg now”, etc.
 Weather flashcards: ask kids related to  Clean up time:
Demonstrate the cards the pictures It’s very important to encourage kids to clean up their working places, ask them to do it
to kids, name each questions every time you make something.
weather type and ask 3. use your mimics
kids to repeat after you. and gestures
Then ask kids to look while you read
into a window, and offer kids to
demonstrate each card demonstrate
with the weather types some actions,
one more time and ask objects, moves,
kids questions, like: “Is it faces expressions,
sunny /windy/cold etc., from a book
today?”, etc. Help kids (for example: “He
to decide what’s the was very sad- To find out how to make this craft and what materials are needed, use the link below:
weather like. Show me sad https://www.dltk-kids.com/fantasy/mdwarf.htm
You can play moving faces, please!; The Also, you can find dwarves templates in additional materials. There are color templates
game as well: place house was really as well , so that you could show them to kids and they have an example. Write seven
weather types big! Is it a big or a dwarves names on a board: Grumpy, Happy, Sleepy, Bashful, Sneezy, Dopey, Doc. Ask
flashcards all over a small house? Yes, your students to decide what names (out of seven on the board) belong to their
carpet, they must be far it’s big! - Show me dwarves. Discuss the dwarves names to find out their meaning, for example, ask the
from each other. Give big, please!”( such student who made Sleepy to explain why his dwarf is named like that, etc.
your students the next method works  Song:
directions: “Let’s hop to well with all ages, Get familiar with the song in advance in order to know lyrics and appropriate moves.
the sunny weather”, but especially Ask kids to sit in a circle or stand and hold hands (it depends on a song) and sing the
“Let’s tip toe to the with nursery- song altogether
cloud”, “Let’s run to the prekindergarten)
rainbow”, etc. Do it with 4. explain unknown
all the cards. Action words to kids
verbs to use in the 5. offer kids to
game: run, walk, tip toe, envisage what is
stomp, waddle, crawl, going to happen
hop, skip. next in a story
(they give their
variants and you
say: “Let’s turn
 the page and find
out!”

 Wiggle Time:
Peel Banana
(starting from the
age 3 up to 6)
https://
www.youtube.com/
watch?v=Wl7PrtUDyEI

Week3: At the Neighbor Greeting” Little Red Riding Little Red Riding Hood Puppet Theater craft + Good bye song
activity + Hello Rhyme Hood book + Wiggle Goal: develop sensory and motor skills, develop creativity and imagination
Playground Time+ Shapes Maze How to do it:
1) The teacher should
worksheet  Craft:
Materials needed: prepare some cards
Goal: develop  Role model presenting: you should make it in advance, to get kids more interested
 Neighbor with the task before listening skills, enrich you might put it in a bag or box, or just hold it behind your back and ask kids to
greeting cards the lesson, and put student’s vocabulary guess what’s it. Give them hints, like; “It starts with the letter…” , they will
(take from the them into the box, with the story’s key remember the words. Then show a role model and describe it with kids.
additional
or bag, etc. words, develop  Materials and tools presenting;
materials)
2) Then teacher tells attention and visual All the materials should be prepared in advance, you can ask kids: “What do we need to
 Little Red discrimination,
the rules of this make a…? (girl’s body, for example), and demonstrate everything that is needed, kids
Riding Hood develop speaking have to name.
book game, and after it
skills, revise simple Encourage kids to use the “ social niceties”- polite phrases, like: Could you…Would
 Shapes Maze each kid should take shapes you give me/help me, etc., Can I …May I have/take, etc.
worksheet the card and try to How to do it
(additional read the task (if the Book reading:  Craft’s making: you have to comment all the stages of a process, ask kids
materials) 1. start with the title
student can’t read personally:
 Red Riding and author of a
the task, teachers “(Child’s name), what are you doing now? “ and encourage them to answer in complete
Hood Puppet book;
does it pointing onto sentences, like: “I’m cutting out a leg now”, etc.
Theatre 2. focus kid’s
the sentence given  Clean up time: it’s very important to encourage kids to clean up their working
template attention onto the places, ask them to do it every time you make something.
( additional in the card), then pictures in a book,
materials) use it with his/her ask kids related to Separate puppets and give them to kids (let them make blind choice) to cut out and
 Hello song neighbor. the pictures color, stick the puppets to popsicle sticks. Help your students to retell the story with
Bye –Bye song
Greeting cards can be questions the help of puppet theatre. Encourage kids to make complete sentences when they
found in additional 3. use your mimics retell the fairy tale. Puppets template can be found in additional materials.
materials. and gestures
while you read
and offer kids to
demonstrate
some actions,
objects, moves,
faces expressions,
etc., from a book (
for example: “He
was very sad-  Song:
Show me sad Get familiar with the song in advance in order to know lyrics and appropriate moves.
faces, please!; The Ask kids to sit in a circle or stand and hold hands (it depends on a song) and sing the
house was really song altogether.
big! Is it a big or a
small house? Yes,
it’s big! - Show me
big, please!”( such
method works
well with all ages,
but especially
with nursery-
prekindergarten)
4. explain unknown
words to kids
5. offer kids to
envisage what is
going to happen
next in a story
(they give their
variants and you
say: “Let’s turn
the page and find
out!”
  Wiggle Time:
Peel Banana
(starting from the
age 3 up to 6)
https://
www.youtube.com/
watch?v=Wl7PrtUDyEI
 Worksheet:
Give worksheets to
your students, offer
them to look through
the worksheets and
name all the shapes,
then kids heave to
solve the maze, the
task must be time
limited so that kids
could compete with
each other
Week4 : Neighbor Greeting” The Ugly Duckling The Ugly Duckling handprint and footprint craft + Good Bye song
book by Hans Goal: revise colors names, develop sensory and motor skills
Harvest Time activity + Hello Rhyme
Christian Andersen
1. The teacher should How to do it:
( fruits and +Wiggle Time
Craft:
vegetables) prepare some cards Goal: develop
 Role model presenting: you should make it in advance, to get kids more interested
Materials needed: with the task before listening skills,
you might put it in a bag or box, or just hold it behind your back and ask kids to
 The Ugly the lesson, and put develop attention,
guess what’s it. Give them hints, like; “It starts with the letter…”, they will
Duckling book learn lower and
them into the box, remember the words. Then show a role model and describe it with kids.
by Hans uppercase letter A,
Christian or bag, etc. learn the letter A  Materials and tools presenting;
Andersen 2. Then teacher tells middle position in the All the materials should be prepared in advance, you can ask kids: “What do we need to
 Neighbor make a…? (girl’s body, for example), and demonstrate everything that is needed, kids
the rules of this word
greeting cards have to name.
(additional game, and after it How to do it
Book reading: Encourage kids to use the “ social niceties”- polite phrases, like: Could you…Would
materials) each kid should take
Hello song 1. start with the title you give me/help me, etc., Can I …May I have/take, etc.
the card and try to
Bye –Bye song and author of a
 read the task (if the book;  Craft’s making: you have to comment all the stages of a process, ask kids
student can’t read 2. focus kid’s personally:
the task, teachers attention onto the “(Child’s name), what are you doing now?” and encourage them to answer in complete
pictures in a book, sentences, like: “I’m cutting out a leg now”, etc.
does it pointing onto
ask kids related to  Clean up time: it’s very important to encourage kids to clean up their working
the sentence given the pictures places, ask them to do it every time you make something.
in the card), then questions To find out how to make this craft and what materials are needed, use the link below:
use it with his/her 3. use your mimics
neighbor. and gestures
Greeting cards can be while you read
found in additional and offer kids to
materials. demonstrate
some actions,
objects, moves,
faces expressions,
etc., from a book (
for example: “He To find out how to make this craft and what materials are needed, use the link below:
was very sad- http://almostunschoolers.blogspot.com/2010/01/ugly-duckling-hand-and-footprint-
Show me sad craft.html
faces, please!; The
house was really  Good bye song
big! Is it a big or a Get familiar with the song in advance in order to know lyrics and appropriate moves.
small house? Yes, Ask kids to sit in a circle or stand and hold hands (it depends on a song) and sing the
it’s big! - Show me song altogether.
big, please!”( such
method works
well with all ages,
but especially
with nursery-
prekindergarten)
4. explain unknown
words to kids
5. offer kids to
envisage what is
going to happen
 next in a story
(they give their
variants and you
say: “Let’s turn
the page and find
out!”

 Wiggle Time:
Peel Banana
(starting from the
age 3 up to 6)
https://
www.youtube.com/
watch?v=Wl7PrtUDyEI

 Flashcards:
Demonstrate the
cards to kids, name
each word from the
set and ask kids to
repeat them after
you. Write two words,
like “cat” and “fat” on
a board, ask your
students to say both
words one more time,
ask them to find the
letter A in these
words, underline the
letter A and tell
students that A can be
at the beginning and
in the middle of
different words, give
an example of the
words that begins
with A.
Worksheet:
Give the worksheets
to your students, ask
them to color all the
uppercase A’s first,
then color all
lowercase letters.