Week of March 8th, 2021
WEEKLY REMINDERS
ZOOM Links for This Week:
Monday 3/8 to Friday 3/12
8:30 a.m. Meeting
Meeting ID: 849 0798 4991
Passcode: 123456
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2:00 p.m. Meeting
Meeting ID: 849 0798 4991
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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,
Snow by Uri Shulevitz HERE!
Sophia
Remote Learners Weekly Activity:
The Water Cycle
Invite your child to draw a sky scene (e.g., sun and clouds) on the outside of a small sealable plastic bag. Fill 1/6 of the bag with water and seal. Hang in the window. Invite your child to predict what will happen. Let the bag hang for several days and observe.
Assess What does the child notice about the changes occurring inside the bag? How do they connect this experiment to changes in the weather?
Pre-K Common Core Learning Standard Addressed:
PK.SCI.8. [P-ESS2-1.] Asks questions, makes observations, and collects and records data using simple instruments to recognize patterns about how local weather conditions change daily and seasonally.
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
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Unit Topic:
Water
Essential Question for the Unit:
What does water do?
Focus Questions for this Week:
What did you learn about water?
Focused Learning activity for the 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, evaporation and collection.
The teacher will invite the children to draw a sky scene (e.g., sun and clouds) on the outside of a small sealable plastic bag. Fill 1/6 of the bag with water and seal. Hang in the window. The teacher will invite the children to predict what will happen. We will let the bag hang for several days and observe.
Pre-K Common Core Learning Standard Addressed:
PK.SCI.8. [P-ESS2-1.] Asks questions, makes observations, and collects and records data using simple instruments to recognize patterns about how local weather conditions change daily and seasonally.
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?
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!
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