Week of February 10, 2020

WEEKLY REMINDERS

 ·      Tuesday, February 11th at 9:00 a.m. will be our Valentine's Day Show in the gym.  Parents are invited to attend! Children may wear valentine’s colors (red and pink)

 ·      Thursday, February 13^th  There will be no after-school.

·      Friday, February 14th and Monday, February 17th! School will be CLOSED. 

Unit Topic:

Water  

     Essential Question for the Unit:

What does water do?

   Focus Question for this Week:

   What happens to water when it changes temperature?

Focused Learning Activity for this Week:

     Teacher will be working with students in the art center. She will invite students to use markers to create a picture. After the students have finished their picture, the teacher will provide spray bottles filled with water. Students will be able to lightly spray their papers. Students will then be encouraged to watch what happens to their paper and describe how the water has changed their work.

         Pre-K Common Core Learning Standard addressed:

            PK.AC.6: Demonstrates their ability to represent ideas using

           A variety of methods.

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-Add pictures of ice castles. The teacher will Invite children to refer to these pictures and build their own ice castles. Consider covering the blocks with white paper and adding clear plastic cups for children to use in their structures. 

 Pretend Play-Large cardboard boxes will be added to pretend play for students to pretend they are in a boat. 

 Art-The teacher will invite children to use markers to create a picture. After they have finished with the markers, the teacher will provide spray bottles of water and invite children to lightly spray their papers. After they have sprayed their papers, the teacher will encourage them to watch and describe how the water has changed their work.  

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-The teachers will read by Patricia Polacco with children in the library, then talk with them about what they do with their families when the weather is bad.  

Writing-Where Do We Find Water? Invite children to think about this question, then draw or write their answers on an index card or small piece of paper.  

Technology-The teacher will assist the children to enter the question where do we find water? into a search engine and join the children in observing the images that are displayed. Ask them which ones they have seen before and which ones they have never seen.

 Sensory-Add child-safe soap to the water table as well as doll clothes and invite children to wash the clothes. The teacher will engage the children in discussions about how people use water to keep things clean.

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 3, 2020

WEEKLY REMINDERS

 ·      Tuesday, February 11th at 9:00 a.m. will be our Valentine's Day Show in the gym.  Parents are invited to attend!

·      Friday, February 14th and Monday, February 17th! School will be CLOSED. 

Unit Topic:

Water  

     Essential Question for the Unit:

What does water do?

   Focus Question for this Week:

Where can we find water?

Focused Learning Activity for this Week:

 The teachers will work with students in the Dramatic Play Center.  Students will be asked to brainstorm and come up with a list of things we need in order to transform our center into a lake with boats.  Students will be assisted as we paint and build cardboard boats for our center.  

         Pre-K Common Core Learning Standard addressed:

        PK.AL.2: Actively engages in problem solving.

Foundational text for the week:

Water Dance By Thomas locker

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

Where does the rain fall from?
What is high above the earth in the blue sky?
What is still and deep and overflows?
What is a waterfall?

 Level 2: Skill/Concept

What are all of the things described in this book (rain, stream, waterfall, etc.) made of?
This book says that clouds can look like many different shapes in the sky. Are there clouds in the sky today? What shapes do you see in the clouds?

Level 3: Strategic Thinking

The storm in this book made the sky dark. How do storms and clouds make the sky dark?
This book shows many different places in the environment where we can find water. Where are some places in our classroom where we can find water?

Level 4: Extended Thinking

At the beginning of the book it says, “Some people say that I am one thing. Others say that I am many”. How can something be one thing and many things at the same time?
Compare the pictures to what we see when we go outside. What is the same? What is different?
How do you think water gets to our classroom?

Learning Centers Available for the Unit: 

Blocks-Add pictures of ice castles. The teacher will Invite children to refer to these pictures and build their own ice castles. Consider covering the blocks with white paper and adding clear plastic cups for children to use in their structures. 

 Pretend Play-Large cardboard boxes will be added to pretend play for students to pretend they are in a boat. 

 Art-The teacher will invite children to use markers to create a picture. After they have finished with the markers, the teacher will provide spray bottles of water and invite children to lightly spray their papers. After they have sprayed their papers, the teacher will encourage them to watch and describe how the water has changed their work.  

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-The teachers will read by Patricia Polacco with children in the library, then talk with them about what they do with their families when the weather is bad.  

Writing-Where Do We Find Water? Invite children to think about this question, then draw or write their answers on an index card or small piece of paper.  

Technology-The teacher will assist the children to enter the question where do we find water? into a search engine and join the children in observing the images that are displayed. Ask them which ones they have seen before and which ones they have never seen.

 Sensory-Add child-safe soap to the water table as well as doll clothes and invite children to wash the clothes. The teacher will engage the children in discussions about how people use water to keep things clean.

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 January 27, 2020

WEEKLY REMINDERS

·      Friday, January 31st.Dismissal will be at 12:00 noon.  The After-School Program will end at 6 p.m.

·      Parent-Teacher Conferences are on Friday, January 31st from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m.

Unit Topic:

   Transportation

 Essential Question for the Unit:

How does my community use various modes of transportation?

     

Focus Question for this Week

             How do we stay safe when using transportation?

Focused Learning Activity for this Week

Transportation Sorting and Naming

Teacher will work with students in the math center. She will provide students with transportation manipulatives.  Students will be encouraged to sort the transportation manipulatives by type and color.  Teacher will then ask students, "Who operates this vehicle?" (holding up one of the manipulatives).

   Pre-K Common Core Learning Standard Addressed:

PK.MATH.11 Sorts objects and shapes into categories; counts the objects in each category

Foundational text for the week:

Go! Go! Go! Stop!  by Charise Mericle Harper

Pre-K Common Core Learning Standard addressed:  

PK.ELAL.5: Participates in discussions about a text.

 Questions that will be asked throughout the week:   

Level 1: Recall 

    What was Little Green’s first word?
What did the trucks do when Little Green said, “Go?” Why     did this become a problem?

Level 2: Skill/Concept 

    Why was Little Red important? Why was Little Yellow important?

Level 3: Strategic Thinking 

    Little Green, Red and Yellow made a traffic light. What are some other traffic signals or signs you see outside?
What do traffic lights do?
Why is it important to follow traffic lights and signals?

Level 4: Extended Thinking 

 Little Green and Little Red were opposites. Name some other things that are opposites
Little Green, Little Yellow and Little Red had to work together to help the trucks. What are some things you can do with other children to help keep the classroom happy and safe?

   Learning Centers Available for the Unit: 

Blocks- Students are invited to create a variety of ramps and use different vehicles to race, predicting which one will go down the fastest and why. 

Pretend Play- Pretend Play will be transformed into an airport. Students are invited to create things we can find at an airport using large pieces of cardboard.  

Art- An assortment of shape cutouts and pictures of vehicles will be added to the center.  Students will be invited to reference the vehicles to create their own vehicles.

Science- Students are invited to create boats (with teacher support) and then will be asked to predict if their boat will float or sink, why or why not?

Math- Students will be invited to match numbered cars to the corresponding amount of people each car holds. 

Library- Students are invited to sequence the pictures and retell a familiar story, using a felt board.

Writing- Students will be invited to match lettered cars to their corresponding spots in a "parking lot".

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