Week of March 1st, 2021

 

 

 

 

WEEKLY REMINDERS

 

 

 

ZOOM Links for This Week:

 

    Monday 3/1 to Friday 3/5

 

      8:30 a.m. Meeting 

      Meeting ID: 824 4622 2633

      Passcode: 123456

         Join URL: Click HERE

 

       2:00 p.m. Meeting

       Meeting ID: 824 4622 2633

       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.  

 

Lessons and Activities for the Week for At Home Learners:

 

 

The link for the read aloud of this week’s foundational text,

Water Can Be…by Laura Purdie Salas HERE!

 

 

Remote Learners Weekly Activity:

Supply your child with a container of water and food coloring. Assist your child in adding a few drops of food coloring to the water. Invite your child to add a leafy celery stalk to the water.  Ask your child to predict what will happen if you leave the stalk in the water overnight.  Record your child’s predictions and invite them to monitor the stalks periodically.  As the colored water becomes visible in the celery stalk or leaves, invite your child to discuss how the stalk transports the water.  Inform your child that water helps move nutrients through plants. This helps plants stay alive.  Without water, plants will start to wilt and eventually die.

 

Pre-K Common Core Learning Standard Addressed:

PK.SCI.5: Plans and conducts investigations to determine how familiar plants and/or animals use their external parts to help them survive in the environment. 

 

Open ended questions

    What did you observe here/when ____? 

    What did your sense of ____ tell you about ____? 

    What will you try next? 

    I wonder what would happen if ____?
How do you know? How could we find out? 

 

There are numerous activities posted every week on our

classroom SeeSaw Account! 

 

 Please send any pictures or drawings to 

xiomaraserbones@olqmnyc.org or text to (203)539-0863.

 

 

Unit Topic:

Water

 

     Essential Question for the Unit:

  What does water do?

 

     Focus Questions for this Week:

 How does water help us?

 

 Focused Learning activity for the week:

 

The teachers will work with students in the Science Center.  The teacher will supply students with a container of colored water. The students will be invited to add a leafy celery stalk to the water.  The teacher will ask students to predict what will happen if you leave the stalk in the water overnight.  The teacher will record students’ predictions and invite them to monitor the stalks periodically.  As the colored water becomes visible in the celery stalk or leaves, the teacher will invite students to discuss how the stalk transports the water.  The following day, the teacher will refer back to students’ predictions to summarize and draw conclusions.  The teacher will inform students that water helps move nutrients through plants. This helps plants stay alive.  Without water, plants will start to wilt and eventually die.

 

Pre-K Common Core Learning Standard Addressed:

PK.SCI.5: Plans and conducts investigations to determine how familiar plants and/or animals use their external parts to help them survive in the environment. 

 

 

Foundational Text for the Week:
Water Can Be... by Laura Purdie Salas

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

What are three things water can do?
What did the boy put on his bruised knees?

Level 2: Skill/Concept
People drink water. Who else does?
How does water help gardens?
How does water help animals?

Level 3: Strategic Thinking
The book says water can be a “drink cooler.” How can water cool drinks?
The book says water can be a “home maker.” How can water be a home? How can water be a “snowman former?”

Level 4: Extended Thinking
What are some things people do with water other than drink it? How does water help you?

 

 

Lessons and activities for the week:

 

Blocks- Pictures of bridges will be added to the center. Students are encouraged to try to build bridges. 

 

Art- Students are invited to draw a picture with crayons. They may choose to draw an underwater or rainy-day scene. After their drawings are complete, watercolor paints will be used to lightly paint over their crayon drawings. 

 

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- Students are invited to read books about or theme, water.

 

Writing- Students will be asked the question, "Where can we find water?" and be asked to write or draw their answers.

 

Sensory- Students will be supplied with their own play-doh container.

 

 

For more information on the Lesson Plan, click HERE!

 

Please always make sure to read the OLQM School Blog for additional information, located 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 February 22, 2021

WEEKLY REMINDERS

 

 

ZOOM Links for This Week:

 

    Monday 01/22to Friday 01/26

 

      8:30 a.m. Meeting 

      Meeting ID: 824 4622 2633

      Passcode: 123456

         Join URL: Click HERE

 

       2:00 p.m. Meeting

       Meeting ID: 824 4622 2633

       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, Float by Daniel Miyares HERE!

 

 

Lessons and Activities for the Week for At Home Learners:

 

Sink vs. Float Experiment

 

Invite your child to consider what the words sink, and float mean. Provide an assortment of objects that sink as well as some that float and invite your child to place the objects in a tub of water and observe what happens. Before testing each object, your child can predict and record whether they think each one will sink or float and then compare the results to their predictions. 

 

Materials suggested:

crayon 

paper 

marker

tin foil 

rubber duck

water bottle cap

Ball  

                               Yasslin 

Sophia 

 

Additional activity

Invite your child to create a paper boat. Children can try floating their boats in the bathtub or sink. 

Click HERE! to learn how to make a paper boat.

 

Open ended questions

What did you observe here/when ____?
What did your sense of ____ tell you about ____? 

What will you try next? 

I wonder what would happen if ____?
How do you know? How could we find out? 

 

Pre-K Common Core Learning Standard Addressed:

· PK.AC.3: Demonstrates understanding of what is observed.

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

 

There are numerous activities posted every week on our

     classroom SeeSaw Account! 

 

      Please send any pictures or drawings to 

 

       xiomaraserbones@olqmnyc.org or text the picture to

       (203)539-0863.

 

 

Unit Topic:

Water

     Essential Question for the Unit:

What does water do?

   Focus Question for this Week:

    What happens when we put things in water?

Focused Learning Activity for this Week:

     The teachers will work with students in the science area.  Students will be shown an arrangement of objects and asked to predict if the object will sink or float in a bucket of water. Students will then test their predictions and discuss why each item sank or floated. 

         Pre-K Common Core Learning Standard addressed:

            PK.AC.3: Demonstrates understanding of what is observed.

 

Foundational text for the week:

Float by Daniel Miyares

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

       What did the boy make out of newspaper?
   What did the boy play with outside in the rain?
   How did the boy’s boat get into the river?

 

 Level 2: Skill/Concept

        The boy put his boat in puddles outside. Where did the

       puddles come from?
   Why did the boy have to chase his boat?

 

Level 3: Strategic Thinking

 How did the boy feel when his boat got wrecked in the river? 

 How do you know? How can you find out if something floats in water? What are somethings that float?

 

Level 4: Extended Thinking

Why do you think this book is called Float?
The boy’s boat floated in the puddles but when it went in the river it fell apart. Why? Why do some things float and some things sink?

 

 Learning Centers Available for the Unit: 

Blocks- Pictures of bridges will be added to the center. Students encouraged to try to build bridges. 

 

Art- Students are invited to draw a picture with crayons. They may choose to draw an underwater or rainy-day scene. After their drawings are complete, watercolor paints will be used to lightly paint over their crayon drawings. 

 

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- Students are invited to read books about or theme, water.

 

Writing-Students will be asked the question, "Where can we find water?" and be asked to write or draw their answers.

 

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 February 16, 2021

 

 

                   Reminders

 

   ·February 15,2021 school will be closed President’s Day  

 

  

ZOOM Links for This Week:

 

    Monday 01/16 to Friday 01/19

 

      8:30 a.m. Meeting 

      Meeting ID: 824 4622 2633

      Passcode: 123456

         Join URL: Click HERE

 

       2:00 p.m. Meeting

       Meeting ID: 824 4622 2633

       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, Rain by Linda Ashman HERE!

 

Lessons and Activities for the Week for At Home Learners:

 

 

Water and ice

 

    Invite your child to explore water and ice.  Discuss the following questions:  What do you know about water?  What do you know about ice? What do you know about the relationship between water and ice? After discussing the relationship between water and ice.  Provide ice for the children to explore.  Ask your child about melting and what happens when ice melts. Encourage your child to think of ways to melt the ice. 

 

Open ended questions

 

     What did you observe here/when ____?
 What did your sense of ____ tell you about ____? 

     What will you try next? 

     How do you know? How could we find out? 

 

 

There are numerous activities posted every week on our

     classroom SeeSaw Account! 

 

      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:

                                                  Water

 

                     Essential Question for the Unit:

                                         What does water do?

  

Focus Questions for this Week:

             What happens to water when it changes temperature?

 

 

Focused Learning Activity for the Week:

 

Water and Ice

The teachers will work with students in the Science Center to explore water and ice.  The students will discuss the following questions:  What do they know about water?  What do they know about ice? What do they know about the relationship between water and ice? After discussing the relationship between water and ice, the teacher will provide ice for the children to explore.  The teacher will ask students about melting and what happens when ice melts. The children will be encouraged to think of ways to melt the ice. Their responses will be recorded on paper and with pictures. 

 

Pre-K Common Core Learning Standard Addressed:

 

· PK. ELAL.19. Participates in collaborative conversations with diverse peers and adults in small and large groups and during play.

 

· PK.SCI.1.Asks questions and uses observations to test the claim that different kinds of matter exist as either solid or liquid

 

Foundational text for the week:

                                                   Rain by Linda Ashman

 

 

            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

   What does the boy wear outside in the rain?

   What does the boy order at the Rain or Shine Café?

   What does the man order at the Rain or Shine Café?

   What does the man forget at the café?

Level 2: Skill/Concept

  How does the boy feel about the rain? How do you know?

    How does the man feel about the rain at the beginning of the story? How do you know?

  How does the man feel about the rain at the end of the story? How do you know?

How did the boy help the man change his mind about the rain?

 

Level 3: Strategic Thinking

      How do you feel about going outside in the rain? Why?

      At the beginning of the story the man is very upset. What are some things that make you upset? 

     The boy in the story is very happy. What are some things that make you happy?

 

 

Level 4: Extended Thinking

   If you don’t have a raincoat, hat or umbrella to wear outside in the rain, what can you do if you want to stay dry?

 The boy made the man feel better. When someone is upset what can you do to make him/her feel better?

 

   Learning Centers Available for the Unit: 

Blocks- Pictures of bridges will be added to the center. Students encouraged to try to build bridges. 

 

Art- Students are invited to draw a picture with crayons. They may choose to draw an underwater or rainy-day scene. After their drawings are complete, watercolor paints will be used to lightly paint over their crayon drawings. 

 

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- Students are invited to read books about or theme, water.

 

Writing-Students will be asked the question, "Where can we find water?" and be asked to write or draw their answers.

 

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