Week of December 20, 2021
WEEKLY REMINDERS
· All children are required to have the FLU shot before returning to school on January 3, 2022
· Christmas Recess begins December 21,2021, students
return January 3,2022
· Seesaw accounts have been set up for all students. You can find your child’s access code in the Home-School Connection folder.
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Unit Topic:
Where We live
Essential Question for the Unit:
Where do people and animals live around me?
Focus Question for this Week
Where do I live? Where do my family members live?
Focused Learning Activity for this Week
Animal Habitats
The teacher will have a set of cards with different animals. She will ask the students where they think each animal lives, modeling how to put the animal card on the correct habitat sheet. The teacher will observe students in the science center as they match animals to their habitat, asking higher-order thinking questions, such as "Why do you think an animal would need thick fur to live in the arctic?"
Pre-K Common Core Learning Standard Addressed:
PK.SCI.5. Observes familiar plants and animals (including humans) and describes what they need to survive.
Foundational text for the week:
Ruby’s Birds by Mya Thompson the link to the foundational text HERE!!
Questions that will be asked throughout the week related to the foundational text:
Level 1: Recall
Where did Eva and Ruby go together?
What did Eva want show Ruby in the park?
What did Ruby want to show her family in the park?
Level 2: Skill/Concept
Do you think Ruby knew that birds lived in Central
Park before she went there with Eva? Why do you
think that? What type of home do you think Ruby and Eva live
in? How do you know?
Level 3: Strategic Thinking
Eva liked to hear the warbler’s song because it is a
sound she heard at her home in Costa Rica. What
are some sounds you like to hear? Why?
Eva wanted Ruby to be quiet when they were in
Central Park together. Do you think Ruby likes to be
quiet? How do you know?
Level 4: Extended Thinking
Eva taught Ruby how to watch for birds living in
Central Park. How might we find birds near us?
In this book, there was a bird living in Ruby’s house
(her pet, Alex) and birds living in Central Park.
Where else can birds live?
Lessons and Activities for the Week:
Blocks-Pictures of different types of homes and buildings will be posted in the block center and students are invited to build the homes in the pictures or similar homes.
Pretend Play- Students will decorate a building facade that will be used in the pretend play area.
Art-The teacher will provide an assortment of construction paper shapes and have children talk about the shapes. The children will then sort them to make purposeful selections and create a home. They might want to create their own home or a home they might like to live in.
Science- Multiple pictures of animals and their homes will be provided in the science center for students to match.
Math- The teacher will provide an assortment of construction paper shapes. The children will talk about and then sort the shapes to make purposeful selections and create a home. They can create their own home or a home they might like to live in.
Library- Students are encouraged to look at two non-fiction books about homes and compare and contrast what they see.
Writing- Students will discover blueprints and create their own blueprint with blue paper and chalk.
For more information on the Lesson Plan, click HERE!
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