Week of November 25, 2019
WEEKLY REMINDERS
¨ OLQM is having our annual canned food drive. All food will be delivered to St. Patrick’s Home Outreach Program. Please consider donating canned foods for our food drive.
¨ Our Thanksgiving Performance is on Tuesday, November 26th at 9:30 a.m.
¨ School is CLOSED on Thursday, November 28thand Friday, November 29th, for Thanksgiving.
Unit Topic:
All About Us
Essential Question for the Unit:
Who am I and who are the people in my life?
Focus Question for this Week
What makes my class important and unique?
Focused Learning Activity for this Week
Feelings Chart
In small group, children will be introduced to an interactive feeling chart. Students will be able to match how they are feeling to an array of labeled pictures. The chart will become part of the morning routine but will also be available for children to access throughout the day as desired.
Pre-K Common Core Learning Standard Addressed:
PK.SEL.1. Regulates responses to needs, feelings and events
Foundational text for the week:
Friendshape by Amy Krouse Rosenthal and Tom Lichtenheld
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
Who are the friends in this story?
What are some of the things the friends in this book do together?
What were the friends in this story all thinking about at the same time?
Level 2: Skill/Concept
What is so great about having friends?
What is so great about having friends?
How do the friends in this story have fun together?
Level 3: Strategic Thinking
Who are some of your friends?
Who are some of your friends?
What do you like to do with your friends?
How can friends help each other?
Level 4: Extended Thinking
What could you do when you and a friend quarrel or get upset with each other?
What could you do when you and a friend quarrel or get upset with each other?
What could you do if another child asks to play with you and a friend?
Learning Centers Available for the Unit:
Blocks-The student’s name cards will be available in block center. Students are invited to write their names using blocks, discussing the lines in each letter of their name (straight, curved, etc.).
Pretend Play- Pretend play will be transformed into "circle time". Students can take turns being the teacher and leading their friends in circle time activities.
Art- Various size shapes from construction paper will be cut out and students are invited to use the shapes to create their bodies. After gluing the shapes together, or to a piece of paper, children can use writing utensils to add additional details (hair, patterns on clothes, etc.).
Science- Students are invited to use magnifying glasses to explore fingerprints, skin, hair, etc.
Math-the teachers will help children figure out how many hands tall they are. The teachers will cut out several hands (all the same size) and tape to wall. She will then have children stand next to the hands and add a post-it to mark each child’s height. children will count how many hands tall they are and write the number on the post-it.
Library- Students are encouraged to read a book with a friend. One child could read to the other or they could look at a book together.
Writing- Students will be able to play a matching game where they match pictures of the students in the class with that student's name.
Sensory- Sand and water, or play-doh.
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
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