Week of January 11, 2020

 

 

 

WEEKLY REMINDERS

 

 

·      Monday, January 18th School will be Closed for Martin Luther King Jr.

 

ZOOM Links for This Week:

Monday 01/11 to Friday 01/15

 

8:30 a.m. Meeting 

 Meeting ID: 851 1848 0997

Passcode: 123456 

Join URL: Click HERE

 

2:00 p.m. Meeting

Meeting ID: 851 1848 0997

Passcode: 123456 

Join URL: Click HERE

 

 

If your child cannot attend one of these two meetings, please let me know and I can schedule a meeting at a time that is more convenient for you.  

 

The link for the read aloud of this week's foundational text, What Do Wheels Do All Day by April Jones Prince is located HERE!

 

Lessons and Activities for the Week for At Home Learners:

 

There are numerous activities posted every week on our classroom SeeSaw Account! 

 

Monday- Use recycled materials (e.g., boxes, empty and clean food containers) as well as tape and/or glue and invite your child to build vehicles. Provide pictures of vehicles for your child to reference and encourage them to develop a plan for building before they begin. Have them consider what they will make and what materials they will need.

 

Tuesday- Invite your child to observe various vehicles outside and then draw what they see. Ask them what they notice about the vehicles as well as why the different parts of the vehicles are important and helpful. After children have completed their drawings, invite them to use recycled materials to create a 3D version of the vehicle they observed.

 

Wednesday- Provide simple directions for folding a paper airplane and invite your child to try to fold their own. Encourage them to explore how they might make the airplanes fly. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paper_plane for plane folding directions.

Thursday- Invite your child to use vegetables to make trucks. For example, a celery stalk could be the body of the truck, and cherry tomatoes, or carrot rounds could be wheels.

Friday-Invite your child to use foods to make a traffic light. For example, start with a rectangular cracker, cover with cream cheese and add a strawberry slice, apricot half and kiwi slice to create a traffic light.

 

Please send any pictures or drawings to 

xiomaraserbones@olqmnyc.org or text the picture to

 (203)539-0863.

Information for In-Person Learners

 

                              Unit Topic:

   Transportation

 

 Essential Question for the Unit:

How does my community use various modes of transportation?

     

Focus Question for this Week

How are various modes of transportation similar and different?

 

Focused Learning Activity for this Week

 

Ramps

The teachers will work with students in the block center. Students will be assisted as they build ramps with wooden blocks. Students will be asked higher order thinking questions as they build ramps, such as, "What would happen if we add another block?" and "Which ramp will make the car go the fastest? Why?"

 

   Pre-K Common Core Learning Standard Addressed:

  PK.SCI.2: Uses tools and materials to design and build a device that causes an object to move faster with a push or a pull.

 

Foundational text for the week:

      What do Wheels Do All Day? by April Jones Prince

 

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 three things wheels do?

    What are some of the things you saw in this book that have

    wheels?

 

Level 2: Skill/Concept 

     In this book there are many vehicles and other things people   can use to help them move (e.g., stroller, motorcycle, bus). What do all of them have in common? What vehicles and things with wheels do you use?

   The book says that some wheels “spit and sputter.” What does it mean for wheels to spit and sputter?

 

Level 3: Strategic Thinking 

   This book is all about wheels. Can you think of some vehicles that do not have wheels?

    What are some ways to move without wheels? This book says that helicopters and airplanes have wheels. Why do helicopters and airplanes have wheels? What else do helicopters and airplanes use to move?

 

Level 4: Extended Thinking 

    Why do you think so many vehicles have wheels?

    What would happen if _____ (cars, buses, etc.) did not have    wheels?

 

 

   Learning Centers Available for the Unit: 

Blocks- Students are invited to create a variety of ramps and use different vehicles to race, predicting which one will go down the fastest and why. 

 

Art- An assortment of shape cutouts and pictures of vehicles will be added to the center.  Students will be invited to reference the vehicles to create their own vehicles.

 

Science- Students are invited to create boats (with teacher support) and then will be asked to predict if their boat will float or sink, why or why not?

 

Math- Students will be invited to match numbered cars to the corresponding amount of people each car holds. 

 

Library- Students are invited to sequence the pictures and retell a familiar story, using a felt board.

 

Writing- Students will be invited to match lettered cars to their corresponding spots in a "parking lot".

 

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