Week of May 27, 2019

WEEKLY REMINDERS 

·               Friday, June 14^thSchool will be closed.  

·               Friday, June 21^stSchool will be closed. 

·               Tuesday, June 25^thwill be our Moving Up 

     Ceremony. 

Unit Topic:

Babies 

     Essential Question for the Unit:

                                       What are babies? 

     Focus Question for this Week:

                       What can we learn about animal babies?

 Focused Learning Activity for this Week:

The teacherswill work with students in the writing center.  Students will be provided with labeled pictures of animal babies.  Students will be encouraged to write an animal book with both baby and adult animals.

Pre-K Common Core Learning Standard addressed

PK.CLL.6: (Speaking and Listening Standards): Demonstrate an emergent ability to express thoughts, feeling, and ideas.

Foundational text for the week:

        Over in the Meadow by Ezra Jack Keats

Pre-K Common Core Learning Standard addressed: 

PK.CLL.2 (Speaking and Listening Standards): With guidance and support, confirm understanding of a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media by asking and answering questions about key details and requesting clarification if something is not understood.

 Questions that will be asked throughout the week: 

  

Level 1: Recall 

What are some of the animal babies that lived in the meadow?
What are some of the animal homes, or habitats, in the meadow?
How many little turtles did the mother turtle have?

Level 2: Skill/Concept 

What is a meadow?
What do you notice about the numbers in this book?
If there were another page in this book, how many animal babies would there be on this page? Why?

Level 3: Strategic Thinking 

Why did the mother animals tell the little animals what to do?
There are two kinds of birds in this book: bluebirds and crows. What is the same about them? What is different?
The bees live in a beehive. Who do you think made the beehive?

Level 4: Extended Thinking 

In this book, the mother animals told the little animals what to do. What are some of the things the adults who take care of you tell you to do? Why?
If you were in the meadow, what would you do? Why?

  Learning Centers Available for the Unit: 

Blocks- Students are invited to use blocks to create the animal babies and habitats that they are investigating. 

Pretend Play-Pretend Play will be turned into a baby nursery.  Students will pretend to care for babies by feeding, cleaning, and changing the baby dolls provided.

Art-Students are invited to create their own baby portraits with a variety of art materials.

Science- Students will be able to play a matching game, matching the adult animal to its offspring.

Math- Cutouts of babies of various lengths will be added to the math center.  Students will be able to measure each baby and tell which is longest and shortest.

Library- Students are invited to read books about our theme, babies.

Writing-Cards will be supplied with pictures of animal babies as well as their names. They will be placed in a bin for children to reference as they create their own animal baby book.

Sensory-Sand and water, or play-doh.         

     

For more information on the Lesson Plan, click HERE! 

  

If there are any questions regarding the Pre-K for All program that cannot be answered by the office or classroom teacher, please feel free to contact the Help Line at 888-227-8175 

Week of May 20, 2019

WEEKLY REMINDERS 

    Friday, May 24th and Monday, May 27th, School will be closed for Memorial Day. 

Unit Topic:

Babies 

     Essential Question for the Unit:

                                What are babies? 

     Focus Question for this Week:

              What can we learn about animal babies?

Focused Learning Activity for this Week:

   The teachers will work with students in the science center.  Students will be able to match cards with animal babies to the corresponding adult.  

Pre-K Common Core Learning Standard addressed

 PK.CKW.5: (Science) Observes and describes characteristics of living things.

Foundational text for the week:

                     Stellaluna by Janell Cannon

Pre-K Common Core Learning Standard addressed: 

PK.SED.2: Regulates his / her response to needs, feelings, and events.

 Questions that will be asked throughout the week: 

  

Level 1: Recall 

Why did Stellaluna live with the bird family?
What are some of the things Stellaluna learned to do when she lived with the bird family?
What do bats do during the day? What do they do at night?

Level 2: Skill/Concept 

Why did Stellaluna feel embarrassed when she tried to fly with the baby birds?
Why did Stellaluna think she was clumsy?

Level 3: Strategic Thinking 

How do you think Stellaluna felt about being separated from her mother?
How do you think Stellaluna felt when mama bird told her she had to do the same things as the other birds?
How do you think Stellaluna felt when she found her own mother again?

Level 4: Extended Thinking 

At the end of the story, Flitter wondered how the baby birds and Stellaluna can be so different but feel so much alike. What you do you think? How is that possible?
Pip wondered how the birds and Stellaluna can feel so different and be so alike. What do you think? How is that possible? How are you different/similar to someone else?

  Learning Centers Available for the Unit: 

Blocks- Students are invited to use blocks to create the animal babies and habitats that they are investigating. 

Pretend Play-Pretend Play will be turned into a baby nursery.  Students will pretend to care for babies by feeding, cleaning, and changing the baby dolls provided.

Art-Students are invited to create their own baby portraits with a variety of art materials.

Science- Students will be able to play a matching game, matching the adult animal to its offspring.

Math- Cutouts of babies of various lengths will be added to the math center.  Students will be able to measure each baby and tell which is longest and shortest.

Library- Students are invited to read books about our theme, babies.

Writing-Cards will be supplied with pictures of animal babies as well as their names. They will be placed in a bin for children to reference as they create their own animal baby book.

Sensory-Sand and water, or play-doh.         

     

For more information on the Lesson Plan, click HERE! 

  

If there are any questions regarding the Pre-K for All program that cannot be answered by the office or classroom teacher, please feel free to contact the Help Line at 888-227-8175 

Week of May 12, 2019

WEEKLY REMINDERS 

    Friday, May 24th and Monday, May 27th, School will be closed for Memorial Day. 

Unit Topic:

Babies 

     Essential Question for the Unit:

                                     What are babies? 

     Focus Question for this Week:

                                What do human babies need? 

Focused Learning Activity for this Week:

Teacher will work with students in the pretend play center to help them set up a baby nursery.  She will ask students to brainstorm what objects need to be added to the pretend play center in order to have a baby nursery.

Pre-K Common Core Learning Standard addressed:

                 PK.AL.2: Actively engages in problem solving. 

Foundational text for the week:

                Everywhere Babies by Susan Meyers 

Pre-K Common Core Learning Standard addressed: 

PK.CLL.4 (Reading Standards: Foundational Skills): Displays emergent reading behaviors with purpose and understanding. 

 Questions that will be asked throughout the week: 

  

Level 1: Recall 

When and where are babies born?
What are some ways babies are carried? 

What are some noises that babies make?

Level 2: Skill/Concept 

Every day, everywhere babies are rocked. Why do you think people rock babies? 

Every day, everywhere babies are kissed. Why do you think people like to kiss babies?

Every day, everywhere babies make friends. How do babies make friends? 

Level 3: Strategic Thinking 

Why do you think babies usually crawl before they walk? 

What do you think babies think about when they are learning to walk? 

When babies first start to walk they fall a lot. How do you think that makes them feel?

Level 4: Extended Thinking 

Babies are growing. How are you growing? 

In this book, babies make friends with puppies, kittens, young people and old people. How do you make friends? 

Learning Centers Available for the Unit: 

Blocks- Students are invited to use blocks to create the animal babies and habitats that they are investigating. 

Pretend Play-Pretend Play will be turned into a baby nursery.  Students will pretend to care for babies by feeding, cleaning, and changing the baby dolls provided.

Art-Students are invited to create their own baby portraits with a variety of art materials.

Science- Students will be able to play a matching game, matching the adult animal to its offspring.

Math- Cutouts of babies of various lengths will be added to the math center.  Students will be able to measure each baby and tell which is longest and shortest.

Library- Students are invited to read books about our theme, babies.

Writing-Cards will be supplied with pictures of animal babies as well as their names. They will be placed in a bin for children to reference as they create their own animal baby book.

Sensory-Sand and water, or play-doh.         

     

For more information on the Lesson Plan, click HERE! 

  

If there are any questions regarding the Pre-K for All program that cannot be answered by the office or classroom teacher, please feel free to contact the Help Line at 888-227-8175 

Week of May 6, 2019

WEEKLY REMINDERS

·      Tuesday, May 7^th is Picture Day

·     Wednesday, May 8^th School will be Closed

·      Thursday, May 9^th at 10:00 will be Muffins with Mom 

·      Friday, May 24th and Monday, May 

     27th, School will be closed for Memorial Day. 

Unit Topic:

Plants 

     Essential Question for the Unit:

How do plants grow and why are they important?

     Focus Question for this Week:

                            Why are plants important?

Focused Learning Activity for this Week:

The teachers will work with students in the writing center.  Students will be able to participate in a plant tasting test.  As students try a variety of fruits and vegetables, they will be asked to record their thoughts by writing a L for Like and a D for Dislike.

Pre-K Common Core Learning Standard addressed:

      PK.SED.1: Recognizes himself/ herself as a unique    individual, having his/ her own abilities, characteristics, feelings, and interests.

Foundational text for the week:

The Vegetables We Eat by Gail Gibbons

Pre-K Common Core Learning Standard addressed: 

PK.CKW.4 (Science): Observes and describes characteristics of earth and science.

 Questions that will be asked throughout the week: 

  

Level 1: Recall
What parts of plants can be vegetables?
What are some different types of vegetables?
Where do vegetables grow?
How do vegetables get to grocery stores?

Level 2: Skill/Concept

What are some different ways that you eat vegetables?
What are some things people have to do if they want to grow a vegetable garden?

Level 3: Strategic Thinking

Some people grow their own vegetable garden. If you were going to grow a vegetable garden, what vegetables would you grow? Why?
Why do you think farmers on big farms sometimes use machines to harvest the vegetables?

Level 4: Extended Thinking

Vegetables are good for your body. How do they help your body?
Why is it important to take good care of your body?
Vegetables can be different colors. Why do you think vegetables are different colors?

Learning Centers Available for the Unit: 

Blocks- Students will be invited to build a park using blocks and materials added to the block center.

Pretend Play- The teacher will turn Dramatic Play into a flower shop by adding pretend flowers, containers, pictures of flower arrangements, cash register, notepad, writing utensils etc. Children can pretend to make, buy, and sell floral arrangements. Vocabulary words such as bouquet, floral arrangement, florist, and flower will be highlighted.

Art- The teacher will supply pipe cleaners as well as tissue paper circles. Children can pierce the middle of the tissue paper circles with the pipe cleaner, adding as many as they would like, then fold the circles up to create a flower. After creating these flowers children can use them in the Dramatic Play flower shop.

Science- The teacher will provide individual pictures of the plant life cycle. Students will be asked to sequence the pictures. The teacher will provide pictures / diagrams for children to refer to as they play and talk with them about each stage in the life cycle. 

Math- The teacher will cut out several paper watermelons, add a number to each one, and ask children to put the appropriate number of seeds on each watermelon. Students are encouraged to write the corresponding number.

Library- Students are invited to read books about our theme, plants.

Writing- Students will write letters on a sheet of construction paper.  They can glue seeds onto the letter.  Teacher will talk with students about words that start with the letter.

Sensory- Sand and water, or play-doh

     

For more information on the Lesson Plan, click HERE! 

  

If there are any questions regarding the Pre-K for All program that cannot be answered by the office or classroom teacher, please feel free to contact the Help Line at 888-227-8175