Week of February 3, 2020
WEEKLY REMINDERS
· 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?
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?
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?
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?
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.
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