Week of April 16, 2018

Plants!

Enduring understandings that the student should have by the end of the unit:

·Plants are living things; every part of a plant has an important function.

·Plants grow from seeds and need water, nutrients and light to live.

· Plants are all around us.

·There are many different types of plants. 

·Plants are important for many reasons. 

Lessons and activities for each learning center 

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

Pretend Play- The teacher will turn Dramatic Play into a flower shop by adding pretend flowers, containers, pictures of flower arrangements, cash register, notepad, writing utensils etc. Children can pretend to make, buy, and sell floral arrangements. Vocabulary words such as bouquet, floral arrangement, florist, and flower will be highlighted.

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. After creating these flowers children can use them in the Dramatic Play flower shop.

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 play and talk with them about 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- Sand and water, or play-doh.

Some of the books we will read this week are: 

·                An Orange in January by Diana Hutts

·                The Vegetables We Eat by Gail Gibbons

                 Reminders

Parents should have received an online survey to complete this past Wednesday from the Archdiocese of New York regarding the upcoming school evaluation. If you did not receive the survey please contact Mr. Guzman in the school office.

 Tuesday, April 24^th at 9:00a.m.  Will be our spring 

 show.

 Friday April 27^th will be Parent Teacher Conferences from 3:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m

Friday April 27^th   dismissal is at 12:00 noon

Link to Weekly lesson Plan

If you have any questions Mr. Woods or I cannot answer feel free to contact the Archdiocese at (888) 227-8175 from 9:00 am to 5:00pm

or Email At Cathlicschools.upk@archny.org 

Thank you