Week of March 2, 2020

WEEKLY REMINDERS

·      Monday, March 2nd is Dr. Seuss' Birthday.  Students may dress up as their favorite Dr. Seuss character.   

·      Friday, March 6th and Friday, March 13th School will be CLOSED

Unit Topic:

Water  

     Essential Question for the Unit:

What does water do?

   Focus Question for this Week:

     How does water help us?

Focused Learning Activity for this Week:

The Water Cycle

The teacher will work with students in the science center.  She will discuss the water cycle, using the terms, precipitation, condensation, and evaporation.  Teacher will then show students how the water cycle works using hot water, shaving cream and blue food coloring in a jar. Throughout the lesson, the teacher will ask students to predict what will happen next.

         Pre-K Common Core Learning Standard addressed:

     PK.SCI.8 Indicators: b. Uses vocabulary to describe weather conditions (e.g., cloud cover (sunny, partly cloudy, cloudy, foggy), precipitation (no precipitation, snow, hail, rain), wind (no wind, some wind, strong wind), and temperature (cold, cool, warm, hot)

Foundational text for the week:

Snow by Uri Shulevitz

Pre-K Common Core Learning Standard addressed: 

PK.ELAL.7: Develops and answers questions about characters, major events, and pieces of information in a text. 

 Questions that will be asked throughout the week: 

  

Level 1: Recall

 How did the city look before it started to snow? How did the city look when it was covered in snow? What does the man with the hat say about the snow? What does the woman with the umbrella say about the snow? 

 Level 2: Skill/Concept

Do you think the boy with the dog wanted it to snow? How do you know? The radio and television said, “No snow.” The book says the snowflakes don’t listen to the radio. What does that mean? The boy in this book is wearing a hat and scarf and the other people are wearing big jackets. Why? 

Level 3: Strategic Thinking

When if first started to snow, the snowflakes melted. Why? When it started to snow more, the book says the rooftops got lighter. How did the snow make the rooftops lighter? How did the people in the book feel when there was a lot of snow? How do you know? 

Level 4: Extended Thinking

Does it snow when it is warm outside? Why or why not? When does snow melt?  What happens to snow when it melts?
How will the city look when the snow melts? 

Learning Centers Available for the Unit: 

Blocks-Add pictures of ice castles. The teacher will Invite children to refer to these pictures and build their own ice castles. Consider covering the blocks with white paper and adding clear plastic cups for children to use in their structures. 

 Pretend Play-Large cardboard boxes will be added to pretend play for students to pretend they are in a boat. 

 Art-The teacher will invite children to use markers to create a picture. After they have finished with the markers, the teacher will provide spray bottles of water and invite children to lightly spray their papers. After they have sprayed their papers, the teacher will encourage them to watch and describe how the water has changed their work.  

Science-Students are invited to sort animals into two categories: those that live in water and those that live on land. 

Math- Seashells will be added to math center. Students will be able to match the correct number of shells to a number card. 

Library-The teachers will read by Patricia Polacco with children in the library, then talk with them about what they do with their families when the weather is bad.  

Writing-Where Do We Find Water? Invite children to think about this question, then draw or write their answers on an index card or small piece of paper.  

Technology-The teacher will assist the children to enter the question where do we find water? into a search engine and join the children in observing the images that are displayed. Ask them which ones they have seen before and which ones they have never seen.

 Sensory-Add child-safe soap to the water table as well as doll clothes and invite children to wash the clothes. The teacher will engage the children in discussions about how people use water to keep things clean.  

For more information on the Lesson Plan, click HERE! 

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