Week of May 3, 2021

 

WEEKLY REMINDERS

 

 

ZOOM Links for This Week: 

 Monday 5/3 to Friday 5/7

 

      8:15 a.m. Meeting 

      Meeting ID: 832 3348 8869

      Passcode: 123456

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       2:00 p.m. Meeting

       Meeting ID: 832 3348 8869 

       Passcode: 123456

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If your child cannot attend one of these two meetings, please let me know and I can schedule a meeting at a time that is more convenient for you.  

 

Lessons and Activities for the Week for At Home Learners:

 

 

The link for the read aloud of this week’s foundational text, The Vegetables We Eat by Gail Gibbons  HERE

Yasslin 

Alena

 

 Questions for the foundational read aloud

 

 Level 1: Recall
What parts of plants can be vegetables?
What are some different types of vegetables?
Where do vegetables grow?
How do vegetables get to grocery stores?

Level 2: Skill/Concept

What are some different ways that you eat vegetables?
What are some things people must do if they want to grow a vegetable garden?

 

Level 3: Strategic Thinking

Some people grow their own vegetable garden. If you were going to grow a vegetable garden, what vegetables would you grow? Why?
Why do you think farmers on big farms sometimes use machines to harvest the vegetables?

Level 4: Extended Thinking

Vegetables are good for your body. How do they help your body?
Why is it important to take good care of your body?
Vegetables can be different colors. Why do you think vegetables are different colors?

 

Remote Learners Weekly Activity:

 

Counting Watermelon Seeds

Cut out several paper watermelons, add a number to each one, and ask your child to put the appropriate number of seeds one each watermelon. Encourage your child to write the corresponding number.

 

Pre-K Common Core Learning Standard Addressed:

PK.MATH.3.[NY-PK.CC.3.]understands the relationship between number quantities to 10, connects counting to cardinality 

 

There are numerous activities posted every week on our

classroom SeeSaw Account! 

  

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Unit Topic:

Plants

 

Essential Question for the Unit:

How do plants grow and why are they important?

 

Focus Questions for this Week:

What are some different kinds of plants?

 

Focused Learning activity for the week:

 

                            See It Grow Plant Lab

 

The teacher will invite students to the science center. The students will see how seeds grow in three Plexiglass greenhouses containing a nontoxic gel that accelerates growth and gives students a clear view of the roots. 

 

 Pre-K Common Core Learning Standard Addressed:

PK.SCI.5. Plants and conducts investigation to determine how familiar plants and/or animals use their external parts to help them survive in the environment 

 

Foundational Text for the Week:

The Vegetables We Eat by Gail Gibbons

 

Pre-K Common Core Learning Standard Addressed:

PK.CLL.11 (Reading Standards for Literature): With prompting and support, make connections between self, text, and the world around them (text, media, social interaction).

Questions for the foundational read aloud

 

Level 1: Recall
What parts of plants can be vegetables?
What are some different types of vegetables?
Where do vegetables grow?
How do vegetables get to grocery stores?

Level 2: Skill/Concept

What are some different ways that you eat vegetables?
What are some things people must do if they want to grow a vegetable garden?

 

Level 3: Strategic Thinking

Some people grow their own vegetable garden. If you were going to grow a vegetable garden, what vegetables would you grow? Why?
Why do you think farmers on big farms sometimes use machines to harvest the vegetables?

Level 4: Extended Thinking

Vegetables are good for your body. How do they help your body?
Why is it important to take good care of your body?
Vegetables can be different colors. Why do you think vegetables are different colors?

 

Lessons and activities for the week:

 

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

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. 

 

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 discuss 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- Students will be able to play with their own individual containers of play-doh.

 

For more information on the Lesson Plan, click HERE!

 

Please always make sure to read the OLQM School Blog for additional information, located 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