Week of October 18, 2021

 

WEEKLY REMINDERS

·      If your child is going to take pictures, please bring in the picture money envelope.

 

·      all children are required to have the FLU shot before December 31st.

 

·      Please make sure your child has an extra change of clothes. 

·      Bring in a picture of your family for us to hang on our family tree!

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Unit Topic:

My Five Senses

 

Essential Question for the Unit:

How do we use our senses to explore, investigate and understand the world around us?

 

Focus Question for the Week Related to the Text:

How do we use our sense of hearing?

  

Focused Learning Activity for the Week:

Matching Sounds

The teachers will provide small, closed containers with various materials inside that make noise when children shake them. The children will be invited to shake the containers and listen to find the matching sounds. 

 

Pre-K Common Core Learning Standard Addressed:

PK.PDH.1. Uses senses to assist and guide learning

 

Foundational Text for the Week:

Squeak, Rumble, Whomp! Whomp! Whomp! by Wynton Marsalis link to the week’s foundational text click HERE!!

 

Questions that will be asked throughout the week related to the foundational text:

 

Level 1: Recall 

What are some of the things in this book that make noise? What are some of the sounds you heard in this book? 

 

Level 2: Skill/Concept 

We often use our voices for talking. This is one way we can make sound. What are some other ways we can use our bodies to make sound? What part of your body do you use to hear?

 

Level 3: Strategic Thinking 

In this book, there are instruments that make noise, vehicles that make noise, and things at the boy’s home that make noise. What are some things in our classroom that make noise? The boy in this book has an alarm clock. His alarm clock ticks and makes a “tlick-tlock” sound. Do you use know anyone who uses an alarm clock? Who? How can alarm clocks be helpful?

 

Level 4: Extended Thinking 

Sounds can make us feel different ways. Some sounds might make us feel happy. A sound that makes me feel happy is ___________. What are some things that make you feel happy? Sad? Excited? This book is called Squeak, Rumble, Whomp! Whomp! Whomp: A Sonic Adventure. What is an adventure? Why do you think the author of this book called it an “adventure?” 

 

Lessons and Activities for the Week:

 

Blocks- Children are encouraged to use tree shaped blocks.  Students will be able to explore how the blocks feel and look compared to the other blocks in the block area.

 

Pretend Play- The Dramatic Play center will be transformed into an apple orchard. Students will be able to explore apples with their senses.    

 

Art- Play-doh will be added to the art center as children discuss how the play-doh feels, looks, and smells.

 

Science- A "Feely Box" will be added to the science center.  Students are invited to put their hands in the holes of the box and identify the object using only their sense of touch. 

 

Math- Students will be able to sort animal manipulatives by color, size, type, and texture.

 

Library- Students are invited to look at our classroom books and discuss what they see with their peers.

 

Writing- Scented markers will be provided in the writing center. Students will be encouraged to use their sense of smell as they use the markers.

 

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.