Week of May 9, 2022

 

 

 WEEKLY REMINDERS

 

·      Friday, May 27, 2022, school Closed  

·      Monday, May 30, 2022, Memorial Day school closed 

·      Wednesday, May 11, 2022, PreK For All Program Closed for Professional Development Day 

·      Friday, June 10th, 9:00am- End of Year "Moving Up Ceremony" in the gymnasium. (Four (4) Adults Permitted per Child)

·      Friday, June 17th, 9:00am- Father's Day "Donuts with Dad" Celebration in the gymnasium. (One (1) Adult Permitted per Child)

 

Please keep in mind that these celebrations may have to be canceled if the COVID numbers increase and guidelines change back. 

 

Always make sure to read the OLQM School Blog for additional information, located HERE!

   

If you have any questions or concerns, you can email me at xiomaraserbones@olqmnyc.org or text/call (203)539-0863 I will do my best to answer at the end of the day. 

 

Unit Topic:

                             Plants 

 

 Essential Question for the Unit:  

 How do plants grow and why are they important? 

 

Focus Question for this Week

 What are some different kinds of plants?

 

Focused Learning Activity for this Week

 

               Seed Patterns

The teacher will work with students in the math center.  The teacher will provide an assortment of seeds as well as a large leaf. Children will be invited to create a pattern with seeds on the leaf cutout. The teacher will explain that a pattern is made of a core unit that repeats (e.g., red, blue, and red, blue, and red, blue).

 

Pre-K Common Core Learning Standard Addressed:

 PK. MATH.8. [NY-PK.OA.2.] Duplicates and extends simple patterns using concrete objects (e.g., what comes next?) 

 

                   

Foundational Text for the Week:

If You Plant a Seed by Kadir Nelson  Link to the foundational text HERE! 

 

Questions that will be asked throughout the week related to the foundational text:

 

 

Level 1: Recall 

What types of seeds did the animals in this book plant? 

What vegetables did the animals grow in the garden? 

 

Level 2: Skill/Concept 

What is a seed of selfishness? 

How does a seed of selfishness grow? 

What happens when a seed of selfishness grows? 

 

Level 3: Strategic Thinking 

What are seeds of kindness? What seeds of kindness could we plant? If we grew seeds of kindness, how could we care for them? 

 

Level 4: Extended Thinking 

What is the difference between vegetable seeds and seeds of selfishness and kindness? Can you be a gardener? Why or why not? 

If you were going to grow a vegetable garden, what would you need? What would you do? If you were going to grow a kindness garden, what would you need? What would you do? 

 

Lessons and Activities for the Week:

 

Blocks- Students will be invited to build a garden 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, a cash register, a 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 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.  The 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!

 

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