Week of June 3, 2019
WEEKLY REMINDERS
· Thursday, June 13th will be Donuts with Dad at 10:00am
· Friday, June 14th School will be closed.
· Friday, June 21stSchool will be closed.
· Tuesday, June 25th will be our Moving Up
Ceremony.
Unit Topic:
Babies
Essential Question for the Unit:
What are babies?
Focus Question for this Week:
How do babies change?
Focused Learning Activity for this Week:
The teachers will 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:
When I was Little: A Four-Year-Olds Memoir of her Youth by Jamie Lee Curtis
Pre-K Common Core Learning Standard addressed:
· PK.CKW.4 (Social Studies): Develops an understanding of how people and things change over time and how to relate past events to their present and future activities.
Questions that will be asked throughout the week:
Level 1: Recall
What are some of the things the girl in the book did when the girl was little she cried a lot. What does she do now?
Level 2: Skill/Concept
What is a memoir?
The girl in this book shares many things about her from when she was little. What are some things you did when you were little?
The girl in this book shares many things about her from when she was little. What are some things you did when you were little?
Level 3: Strategic Thinking
The little girl in this book says she is more helpful now than when she was a baby.
Can babies be helpful? Why or why not?
What are some things babies need help with?
What are some things babies need help with?
Level 4: Extended Thinking
What are some ways you are different now than when you were little?
What are some ways you are the same now as when you were little?
What are some ways you are the same now as when you were little?
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.
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
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