Week of October 28, 2019

WEEKLY REMINDERS

·     Wednesday, October 30^th, school will close.  

·     Thursday, October 31st at 9:00 am will be Our Halloween Parade. Parents are invited to attend.  

Unit Topic:

                                    My Five Senses

 Essential Question for the Unit:

How do we use our senses to explore, investigate and understand the world around us?

     Focus Question for this Week

How do we use our sense of smell?

             Focused Learning Activity for this Week:

Apple Tasting

The teachers will invite children to taste different types of apples and discuss how do they taste? How do they smell? Which one is their favorite and why? The teachers will then help them record their favorite apple in a chart.

   Pre-K Common Core Learning Standard Addressed:

           PK.PDH.1 Uses senses to assist and guide learning  

Foundational text for the week:

Rah, Rah, Radishes! by April Pulley Sayre

Pre-K Common Core Learning Standard addressed: 

      PK.ELAL.5: Participates in discussions about a text.

 Questions that will be asked throughout the week: 

  

Level 1: Recall 

The title of this book is, “Rah, Rah, Radishes!” What is a radish? 

There are many vegetables in this book. Tell me three vegetables you remember. 

What vegetables did we read about that are red? Green? Yellow? 

Level 2: Skill/Concept

What vegetables do you like to eat? 

Is there anyone at your home that cooks’ vegetables? Who? 

A salad is a mix of many different vegetables. Have you ever had a salad? What do you like in your salad? If you have not had a salad, what vegetables do you think you would like to try in a salad? 

Level 3: Strategic Thinking 

When vegetables are raw (not cooked) they are usually crunchy. What are some other crunchy foods? 

When vegetables are cooked, they get softer. What are some foods you like to eat that are soft? 

When do you eat vegetables? 

Level 4: Extended Thinking

Show the page with the potatoes and read the text, “Slice ‘em, Mash ‘em, Wham! Wham! Wham!” Why would someone slice or mash a potato? 

Why should we eat vegetables? 

All of the illustrations in this book are pictures of vegetables. How do these pictures make you feel? 

   Learning Centers Available for the Unit: 

Blocks- Children are encouraged to use tree shaped blocks.  Students will be able to explore how the blocks feel and look compared to the other blocks in the block area.

Pretend Play- The Dramatic Play center will be transformed into an apple orchard. Students will be able to explore apples with their senses.    

Art- Playdough will be added to the art center as children discuss how the playdough feels, looks, and smells.

Science- A "Feely Box" will be added to the science center.  Students are invited to put their hands in the holes of the box and identify the object using only their sense of touch. 

Math- Students will be able to sort animal manipulates by color, size, type, and texture.

Library- Students are invited to look at our classroom books and discuss what they see with their peers.

Writing- Scented markers will be provided in the writing center. Students will be encouraged to use their sense of smell as they use the markers.

Sensory- Sand and water, or playdough 

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 October 21, 2019

WEEKLY REMINDERS

·     Wednesday, October 30^th, school will close.  

·     Thursday, October 31st at 9:00 am will be Our Halloween Parade. Parents are invited to attend.  

Unit Topic:

                                    My Five Senses

 Essential Question for the Unit:

How do we use our senses to explore, investigate and understand the world around us?

     Focus Question for this Week

How do we use our sense of taste and smell?

             Focused Learning Activity for this Week:

Apple Tasting

The teachers will invite children to taste different types of apples and discuss how do they taste? How do they smell? Which one is their favorite and why? The teachers will then help them record their favorite apple in a chart.

   Pre-K Common Core Learning Standard Addressed:

           PK.PDH.1 Uses senses to assist and guide learning  

Foundational text for the week:

My Five Senses by Aliki

Pre-K Common Core Learning Standard addressed: 

      PK.ELAL.5: Participates in discussions about a text.

 Questions that will be asked throughout the week: 

  

Level 1: Recall 

What are the five senses?
What do you use to see? Hear? Smell? Taste? Touch or feel? (In the initial read, focus on all senses. For later reads during the week that focuses on touch, highlight the sense of touch)

Level 2: Skill/Concept

What are some things you can see? Hear? Smell? Taste? Touch or feel?
How many senses do you use when you listen to a teacher read you a story? What are they?

Level 3: Strategic Thinking 

Would you rather touch something that is hard or soft? Why? Smooth or bumpy? Why? Wet or dry? Why?
It could be dangerous to touch some things. What are some things that could be dangerous to touch?
What should you do if you see something that looks like it might be dangerous to touch?
How do our senses and body parts help us learn about our world? How can our senses keep us safe?

Level 4: Extended Thinking

How can people communicate if they can’t hear or see?

   Learning Centers Available for the Unit: 

Blocks- Children are encouraged to use tree shaped blocks.  Students will be able to explore how the blocks feel and look compared to the other blocks in the block area.

Pretend Play- The Dramatic Play center will be transformed into an apple orchard. Students will be able to explore apples with their senses.    

Art- Play-doh will be added to the art center as children discuss how the play-doh feels, looks, and smells.

Science- A "Feely Box" will be added to the science center.  Students are invited to put their hands in the holes of the box and identify the object using only their sense of touch. 

Math- Students will be able to sort animal manipulates by color, size, type, and texture.

Library- Students are invited to look at our classroom books and discuss what they see with their peers.

Writing- Scented markers will be provided in the writing center. Students will be encouraged to use their sense of smell as they use the markers.

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 October 14, 2019

WEEKLY REMINDERS

·     Tuesday, October 15th.There will be NO AFTER-SCHOOL  

·     Wednesday, October 16^that 9:30am will be The Hispanic Heritage show. Parents are invited to attend.

·     Friday October 18, Individual Picture Day. 

·     Wednesday, October 30th.School will close.  

·     Thursday, October 31st at 9:00 amwill be Our Halloween Parade. Parents are invited to attend.  

Unit Topic:

                                     My Five Senses

 Essential Question for the Unit:

How do we use our senses to explore, investigate and understand the world around us?

     Focus Question for this Week

                         How do we use our sense of hearing?

             Focused Learning Activity for this Week:

The teacher will provide small closed containers with various materials inside that make noise when children shake them. The children will be invited to shake the containers and listen to find the matching sounds.

      Pre-K Common Core Learning Standard Addressed:

           PK.PDH.1 Uses senses to assist and guide learning  

Foundational text for the week:

                  Tap, Tap, Boom, Boom by Elizabeth Bluemle

Pre-K Common Core Learning Standard addressed: 

      PK.ELAL.5: Participates in discussions about a text.

 Questions that will be asked throughout the week: 

  

Level 1: Recall 

What makes the “Tap, tap, boom, boom” sound in this story?
What do the people in the story do to stay dry?
What was the surprise in the sky at the end of the book? What did people see?

Level 2: Skill/Concept

How does it feel when rain falls on you?
What do you do when you are outside and it is raining? What would happen if you stood outside in the rain with no raincoat or umbrella?

Level 3: Strategic Thinking 

Some of the people in this book shared their umbrellas. How do you feel when someone shares with you?
How do you feel when you share with someone else?
What are some things the people in the story probably heard when they went down into the subway tunnel?

Level 4: Extended Thinking

How might a little bit of rain sound?
How might a lot of rain sound?
In this book, they used words to sound like rain (i.e. tap, tap); what are some other things we could use to make the sound of rain?

   Learning Centers Available for the Unit: 

Blocks- Children are encouraged to use tree shaped blocks.  Students will be able to explore how the blocks feel and look compared to the other blocks in the block area.

Pretend Play- The Dramatic Play center will be transformed into an apple orchard. Students will be able to explore apples with their senses.    

Art- Play-doh will be added to the art center as children discuss how the play-doh feels, looks, and smells.

Science- A "Feely Box" will be added to the science center.  Students are invited to put their hands in the holes of the box and identify the object using only their sense of touch. 

Math- Students will be able to sort animal manipulates by color, size, type, and texture.

Library- Students are invited to look at our classroom books and discuss what they see with their peers.

Writing- Scented markers will be provided in the writing center. Students will be encouraged to use their sense of smell as they use the markers.

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 October 7,2019

WEEKLY REMINDERS 

·     Tuesday October 8^thwill be our class picture day.  

·     Monday, October 14th, School will be CLOSEDin observance of Columbus Day!

·      Tuesday, October 15th.There will be NO AFTER- 

 SCHOOL  

·      Wednesday, October 16th will be The Hispanic 

 Heritage show. Parents are invited to attend.

Unit Topic:

                                     My Five Senses

 Essential Question for the Unit:

How do we use our senses to explore, investigate and understand the world around us?

     Focus Question for this Week

                             How do we use our sense of sight?

 Focused Learning Activity for this Week:

The teachers will work with students in order to transform the dramatic play center into an apple orchard. Students will be asked to brainstorm in order to think ofwhat objects should be added to the center in order to create the apple orchard.

Pre-K Common Core Learning Standard Addressed:

PK.AL.4: Exhibits curiosity, interest, and willingness to learn new things and have new experiences.

Foundational text for the week:

 Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? by Eric Carle

Pre-K Common Core Learning Standard addressed: 

  PK.ELAL.6: Retell stories or share information from a text.

 Questions that will be asked throughout the week: 

  

Level 1: Recall 

At the end of the book, what did the teacher see?
What did the children see?

Level 2: Skill/Concept

All of the animals in this book can see each other. Where do you think the animals in this book are?
The teacher is wearing glasses. What do glasses help people do?
What animals have you seen? Where?

Level 3: Strategic Thinking 

The horse in this book is blue. Are horses ever blue?
If you could change the color of an animal, what animal would you change and what color would you make it? (Pink duck? Green squirrel?)
All of the animals and people in this book notice someone looking at them. How do you know when someone is looking at you?

Level 4: Extended Thinking

In this book we use our eyes to see the animals. If you could not see the animals how could you describe or tell other people about them?
Make a list of children you see. What do you think they can see? Do these children see something different than what you see?

   Learning Centers Available for the Unit: 

Blocks- Children are encouraged to use tree shaped blocks.  Students will be able to explore how the blocks feel and look compared to the other blocks in the block area.

Pretend Play- The Dramatic Play center will be transformed into an apple orchard. Students will be able to explore apples with their senses.    

Art- Play-doh will be added to the art center as children discuss how the play-doh feels, looks, and smells.

Science- A "Feely Box" will be added to the science center.  Students are invited to put their hands in the holes of the box and identify the object using only their sense of touch. 

Math- Students will be able to sort animal manipulates by color, size, type, and texture.

Library- Students are invited to look at our classroom books and discuss what they see with their peers.

Writing- Scented markers will be provided in the writing center. Students will be encouraged to use their sense of smell as they use the markers.

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