Week of April 24, 2021

 

WEEKLY REMINDERS

 

 

ZOOM Links for This Week: 

 Monday 4/26 to Friday 4/30

 

      8:15 a.m. Meeting 

      Meeting ID: 832 3348 8869

      Passcode: 123456

      Join URL: Click HERE

 

       2:00 p.m. Meeting

       Meeting ID: 832 3348 8869 

       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, An Orange in January by Dianna H Aston Here!

 

 Questions for the foundational read aloud

 

Level 1: Recall 

Where was the orange at the beginning of the book? Where was the orange at the end of the book? 

How did the orange get from the tree to the grocery store? 

 

Level 2: Skill/Concept 

The book says, “The petals fell away, and the orange began to grow into what it was meant to be.” What was the orange meant to be? How did the boy get the orange? 

 

Level 3: Strategic Thinking 

The boy shared the orange. Why do you think he did that? 

How do you think the other children felt when he shared the orange with them? 

 

Level 4: Extended Thinking 

If you were going to grow a kindness garden, what would you need? What would you do?  

 

Remote Learners Weekly Activity:

 

Watch the video The Parts of a plant Here!

 

Invite your child to draw and label the parts of a plants after watching and discussing this video. Note your child’s observations, understandings and use this information to talk with them about it.

 

 

 

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:

Plants

 

Essential Question for the Unit:

How do plants grow and why are they important?

 

Focus Questions for this Week:

What do plants need and where do we find them?

 

Focused Learning activity for the week:

 

The parts of a flower

 

Teachers will work with students in the writing center. They will discuss each part of a flower and talk about its importance. Students will be encouraged to use flowers, green and brown piper cleaner, and leaves to create and label their own flower.

 

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:

An Orange in January by Dianna H Aston

 

Pre-K Common Core Learning Standard Addressed:

PK.CLL.11 (Reading Standards for Literature): With prompting and support, make connections between self, text and the world around them (text, media, social interaction).

Questions for the foundational read aloud

Level 1: Recall 

Where was the orange at the beginning of the book? Where was the orange at the end of the book? 

How did the orange get from the tree to the grocery store? 

 

Level 2: Skill/Concept 

The book says, “The petals fell away, and the orange began to grow into what it was meant to be.” What was the orange meant to be? How did the boy get the orange? 

 

Level 3: Strategic Thinking 

The boy shared the orange. Why do you think he did that? 

How do you think the other children felt when he shared the orange with them? 

 

Level 4: Extended Thinking 

If you were going to grow a kindness garden, what would you need? What would you do?  

 

 

Lessons and activities for the week:

 

Blocks- Students will be invited to build a garden using blocks and materials added to the block center.

Art- The teacher will supply pipe cleaners as well as tissue paper circles. Children can pierce the middle of the tissue paper circles with the pipe cleaner, adding as many as they would like, then fold the circles up to create a flower. 

 

Science- The teacher will provide individual pictures of the plant life cycle. Students will be asked to sequence the pictures. The teacher will provide pictures / diagrams for children to refer to as they discuss each stage in the life cycle. 

 

Math- The teacher will cut out several paper watermelons, add a number to each one, and ask children to put the appropriate number of seeds on each watermelon. Students are encouraged to write the corresponding number

 

Library- Students are invited to read books about our theme, plants.

 

Writing- Students will write letters on a sheet of construction paper.  They can glue seeds onto the letter.  Teacher will talk with students about words that start with the letter.

Sensory- Students will be able to play with their own individual containers of play-doh.

 

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