Week of May 24, 2021

 

WEEKLY REMINDERS

 

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ZOOM Links for This Week: 

 

 Monday 5/24 to Friday 5/28

 

      8:15 a.m. Meeting 

      Meeting ID: 832 3348 8869

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       2:00 p.m. Meeting

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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 Stellaluna by Janell Cannon, Here!

 

 

 Questions for the foundational read aloud

 

 Level 1: Recall 

Why did Stellaluna live with the bird family? What are some of the things Stellaluna learned to do when she lived with the bird family?

Level 2: Skill/Concept

What do bats do during the day?

What do they do at night? 

Why did Stellaluna feel embarrassed when she tried to fly with the baby birds? 

 

Level 3: Strategic Thinking

 How do you think Stellaluna felt about being separated from her mother? How do you think Stellaluna felt when mama bird told her she had to do the same things as the other birds? 

 

Level 4: Extended Thinking

 Why did Stellaluna think she was clumsy? 

 How do you think Stellaluna felt when she found her own mother again? At the end of the story, Flitter wondered how the baby birds and Stellaluna can be so different but feel so much alike. What you do you think? How is that possible?

 

 

Remote Learners Weekly Activity:

 

Baby Portraits

Show your child pictures from when they were a baby. Invite them to look at the pictures and draw or paint a picture of themselves as a baby. As your child observes and considers their pictures, engage them in discussion about the details they notice in the pictures. What has changed about the way they look now compared to when they were babies? Why? 

 

Pre-K Common Core Learning Standard Addressed:

 PK.SOC.6. Develops an understanding of how people and things change over time and how to relate past events to their present and future activities

 

 

There are numerous activities posted every week on our

classroom SeeSaw Account! 

  

Please send any pictures or drawings to 

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Unit Topic:

Babies

 

Essential Question for the Unit:

What are babies? 

 

Focus Questions for this Week:

                                   What can we learn about animal babies? 

 

Focused Learning activity for the week:

 

Match the Baby to its Parent

Teacher will work with students in the science center. She will help students match cards with animal babies to the adult. Children who are ready will also be encouraged to attempt to write or copy the names of the animals they find.

 

 

 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:

Stellaluna by Janell Cannon

 

Pre-K Common Core Learning Standard Addressed:

PK.ELAL.7 Develops and answer questions about characters, major even, and pieces of information in a text.

Questions for the foundational read aloud

 

 Level 1: Recall 

Why did Stellaluna live with the bird family? What are some of the things Stellaluna learned to do when she lived with the bird family?

Level 2: Skill/Concept

What do bats do during the day?

What do they do at night? 

Why did Stellaluna feel embarrassed when she tried to fly with the baby birds? 

 

Level 3: Strategic Thinking

 How do you think Stellaluna felt about being separated from her mother? How do you think Stellaluna felt when mama bird told her she had to do the same things as the other birds? 

 

Level 4: Extended Thinking

 Why did Stellaluna think she was clumsy? 

 How do you think Stellaluna felt when she found her own mother again? At the end of the story, Flitter wondered how the baby birds and Stellaluna can be so different but feel so much alike. What you do you think? How is that possible?

 

 

Lessons and activities for the week:

 

Blocks- The block area will be turned into a baby nursery.  Students will pretend to care for babies by feeding, cleaning, and changing the baby dolls provided. 

 

Art- Students are invited to create their own baby portraits with a variety of art materials.

 

Science- Students are invited to create the animal babies and habitats they are investigating.  

Math- Cutouts of babies of various lengths will be added to the math center.  Students will be able to measure each baby and tell which is longest and shortest.

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

Writing- Cards will be supplied with pictures of animal babies as well as their names. They will be placed in a bin for children to reference as they create their own animal baby book.

Sensory- Students will be able to give babies a bath with their own containers and consider why babies need help to wash or take a bath.

 

 

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