The bats are putting on a show that you won’t forget. Count along with the bats as they present their amazing Jamboree.

Materials

•  Bat wings for toilet tubes
•  Index cards
• A bag of rice or birdseed

Vocabulary

•  Jamboree ( a celebration with special entertainment)
• Pyramid (A three dimensional triangle shape)

Before Reading the Story

Talk to the children about what is a Jamboree. What other name could we use instead? (Talent show, RIF celebration, parent night) If you have had any of these ask, “Do you remember when we sang to our parents at the PTO meeting/RIF celebration?”

Social & Emotional Development/Knowledge of Families & Communities; develops growing awareness of jobs and what is required to perform them.  AND Creative Arts/Music; participates with increasing interest and enjoyment  in a variety of music activities, including listening, singing, finger plays, games, and performances.

Reading the Story

As you read have the children count the bats on the pages from 1-10.

Mathematics/Number  Operations; develops increasing ability to count in sequence to 10 and beyond.

After Reading the Story

Ask the children what they might like to do if they were part of the Jamboree show. Teach them the song, Funny Bat. Call each child into the center of your circle and let them do a funny trick while everyone else sings.

Social & Emotional Development/Self-Concept; begins to develop and express awareness of self in terms of specific abilities, characteristics, and preferences.

Discovery

Bring in pictures and books of real bats for the children to examine. Look for how they are alike and how they are different.

Science/Scientific Knowledge; expands knowledge of and abilities to observe, describe, and discuss the natural world, materials, living things, and natural processes.

Music and Movement

Sung to the Farmer in the Dell  Funny Bat https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivw83QQk-Dk

As each child comes into the circle to take their turn, encourage them to do a trick. My children like to take a large pillow and do somersaults and log rolls.

There was a funny bat,

His/her name was____________

Watch him/her do a funny trick

At the jamboree.

Creative Arts/Music; participates with increasing interest and enjoyment  in a variety of music activities, including listening, singing, finger plays, games, and performances.

Blocks

Write the numbers 1-10 on index cards. Put them on the floor. Show the children how to stack 1 block on the 1 card, 2 blocks on the 2 card. Put out a blank card and ask them to see and count how many blocks they can stack onto it without the blocks falling. Graph the results. One inch cubes or small blocks works best.

Mathematics/Number & Operations; begins to associate number concepts, vocabulary, quantities, and written numerals in meaningful ways.

Art

Let each child paint a toilet paper black or brown. Cut out wings and let the children glue them on top. When the bats are dry, attach a string and hang them from the ceiling.

Physical Health & Development/Fine Motor Skills; develops growing strength, dexterity, and control needed to use tools such as scissors, paper punch, stapler, and hammer.  AND  Language Development/Listening & Understanding; shows progress in understanding and following simple and multiple-step directions.

Sand and Water

Use rice or birdseed in the table today along with scoopers and several smallish containers .  Challenge the children to count how many scoops of rice/birdseed it takes to fill the various containers.  Ask them to count aloud as they scoop.  Which container holds more, container A or container B?

Mathematics/Number & Operations;demonstrates increasing interest and awareness of numbers and counting as a means of solving problems and determining quantity.

Library and Writing

Write the letters AT onto an index card. Explain to the children that this makes the /at/ sound. Give the children magnet letters and show them how to put one at a time in front of the AT. Can you tell what sound this new letter makes? Can you sound out the word that these letters make? Work closely with the children to help them see how letters make sounds and sounds make words.

Literacy/Alphabet Knowledge; shows progress in associating the names of letters with their shapes and sounds.

Dramatic Play

Put out costume supplies so the children can pretend that they are going to put on a show. Fun hats, bright shirts, sequence outfits, and colorful scarves.

Social & Emotional Development/Self-Concept; begins to develop and express awareness of self in terms of specific abilities, characteristics, and preferences.

Math and Manipulatives

Give the children number lines written on a piece of paper. Encourage the children to copy the numbers onto their own paper using markers or crayons.  They can then glue shapes beside the number making their own number graphs.

Mathematics/Number & Operations; begins to associate number concepts, vocabulary, quantities, and written numerals in meaningful ways.  AND Literacy/Early Writing; experiments with a  growing variety of writing materials and tools, such as crayons, pencils, and computer.

Outdoor Play

Swoop and fly to the playground like bats.

Physical Health & Development/Health Status & Practices; participates actively in games, outdoor play, and other forms of exercise that enhance physical fitness.

Transitions

On a whiteboard or chalkboard write several letters, shapes, and numbers.  Call the children to come one at a time and circle either a letter, a shape, or a number with a chalk or marker.

Literacy/Alphabet Knowledge; shows progress in associating the names of letters with their shapes and sounds. AND Mathematics/Number & Operations; begins to associate number concepts, vocabulary, quantities, and written numerals in meaningful ways.

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