***Please read Mr. Woods' blog regarding the breakfast and lunch program.
Unit Topic: Transportation
Student Outcomes
Enduring understandings that the student should have by the end of the unit:
- I use transportation to get to pre-K and other places.
- We use different types of transportation for different reasons.
- Vehicles move in different ways.
- My family is important and unique.
- Some vehicles are operated by community helpers such as bus drivers, conductors, firefighters, police officers and mail carriers. There are many ways to stay safe when using transportation.
Learning Centers and Activities
Blocks :
The children will be encouraged to build bridges with blocks and other building materials. The children will be asked to name their bridges.
Dramatic Play:
The Dramatic Play area will be turned into a subway station. Children will be invited to name the station. The teacher along with the children will create a pretend train with chairs, make a route map and add child-friendly advertisements inside the train. Children can also look at MetroCards and create their own. Children will be encouraged to pretend to be passengers, conductors, track repairers and other MTA workers who keep the subway clean and running well.
Art:
The children will be supplied with an assortment of shape cutouts and small vehicles or pictures of vehicles. Children will be invited to reference the vehicles to create their own vehicles.
Science /Discovery Area:
Provide simple directions for folding a paper airplane and invite children to try to fold their own. Ask children if they think the airplanes will fly. Why or why not? See
Math
The children will be provided with cubes as well as an assortment of vehicles to measure vehicles. Children will be invited to compare the sizes of the vehicles: Which is biggest? Smallest? Heaviest? Lightest?
Sand and Water / Sensory
Boats will be added to the water in the sensory table. Invite children to play with the boats and discuss where the boats are going to/coming from, what they are carrying, etc., as they play.
Library
The teacher will select a few books the class currently enjoys and create a graph for children to share which books they like best.
Writing:
The teacher will create a parking lot for vehicles on a piece of cardboard. A letter will be written on each of the parking spots as well as on an assortment of small vehicles. Children will be invited to park the vehicles in the correct parking space.
Technology:
The teacher will use a search engine to pull up pictures of bridges. The children will be asked how they think bridges work and encourage them to try to build bridges in the Blocks/Construction Area.
Books of the week:
What Do Wheels Do All Day? by April Jones Prince
I Read Signs by Tana Hoban
Reminders /
School will be CLOSED on Monday January 16th for Martin Luther King Jr.’s Birthday.
School is CLOSED on Thursday, January 26th for Teacher Conference Day.
Please refer to Mr. Woods blog in regards to the changes in the breakfast and lunch menu.
Recommended Home School Connection:
Monday - School Closed
Tuesday – Universal Handwriting Book pages 18 and 19
Wednesday – Universal Handwriting Book pages 20 and 21
Thursday - Universal Handwriting Book pages 22 and 23
If you have any questions about the UPK for All program that I, Mrs. Gonzalez or Mr. Woods are unable to answer please feel free to contact :
The Archdioceses Help Line at 888-227-8175 from 9:00 A.M. - 5:00 P.M.
or by Email at catholicschool.upk.arch.ny.org
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