Week of December 31st!!

Welcome Back and Happy New Year To All!

Thank you parents for all the wonderful gifts and your donations for our Holiday Party. 

WEEKLY REMINDERS: Mark your calendars! 

• School Closed on Wednesday, January 16th for Teacher Professional Development Day . 
• Dismissal will be at 12:00 noon on Friday, February 1st .
• Parent – Teacher Conferences will be on Friday, November  1st , from 3pm – 8pm.  

Unit Topic:

Where We Live

Essential Question for the Unit:

Where do the people and animals around me live?

Focus Question for this Week:

How do people and animals make homes?

Focused Learning Activity for this Week: 

The students will continue to learn about animals habitat and research how animals make their homes.

• Pictures of animals and their habitats will be added to the science center.  Students will be encouraged to talk about the arrangement of animals as well as the arrangement of habitats.  They will then be asked to match the pictures, placing the animal in the appropriate habitat.  Students will be asked why or how they made the matches. The teacher will ask students higher order thinking questions, such as, "why do you think an animal would need thick fur to live in the arctic? “How do you think animals make their home?” 

Pre-K Common Core Learning Standard Addressed:

PK.CKW.5 (Science): Observes and describes characteristics of living things.

Foundational Text for the Week: 

Iggy Peck, Architect by Andrea Beaty

Pre-K Common Core Learning Standard Addressed: 

PK.CKW.8 (Social Studies): Demonstrates interest and awareness about a wide variety of careers and work environments.

QUESTIONS THAT WILL BE ASKED THROUGHOUT THE WEEK:

Level 1: Recall

• What was the first thing Iggy built?
• Why didn’t Iggy’s teacher like building and architecture?
• What happened to the bridge Iggy’s class crossed on the way to the picnic?

Level 2: Skill/Concept

• What is an architect?
• How does Iggy know how to build so many different things?
• Iggy builds with many different things, what are some things you use for building?

Level 3: Strategic Thinking

• How do you think Iggy’s parents felt about all of his building?
• How do you think Ms. Lila Greer felt about all of Iggy’s building at the beginning of the story?
• How do you think Iggy felt when Ms. Lila Greer told him he could not build at school anymore
• How did he feel when she told him he could build at school again?

Level 4: Extended Thinking

• Iggy loved to build. What do you love to do?
• How would you feel if someone told you to stop doing something you loved?

Learning Centers Available for the Unit:

Blocks-Pictures of different types of homes and buildings will be posted in block center and students are invited to build the homes in the pictures or similar homes.

Pretend Play- Students will continue to decorate a building facade that will be used in the pretend play area.  

Art- Students will be supplied with popsicle sticks in order for them to create a home by gluing sticks onto paper.

Science- Multiple pictures of animals and their homes will be provided in science center for students to match.

Math- People figures, number cards, and pictures of homes will be placed in the math center.  Students will be encouraged to pick a number card, and place the corresponding number of people into a home.

Library- Students are encouraged to look at two non-fiction books about homes and compare and contrast what they see.

Writing-  Students will discover blueprints and create their own blueprint with write and wipe blueprints mat. 

Sensory- Sand and water, or play-doh.

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