Week of May 13th!!

Reminders / Notices:

• School is Closed on Friday, May 24th and Monday, May 27th, for Memorial Day. 

Unit Topic:

• Babies

Essential Question for the Unit:

• What are babies?

Focus Question for the Week:

• What do human babies need?

Focused Learning Activity for the Week:

• Mrs. Gonzalez and Mrs. Tavares will work with students in the pretend play center.  Students will be asked to brainstorm what objects need to be added to the center in order to create a baby nursery. 

Pre-K Common Core Learning Standard Addressed:

• PK.AL.2: Actively engages in problem solving.

Foundational Text for the Week:

• Everywhere Babies by Susan Meyers

Pre-K Common Core Learning Standard Addressed:

• PK.CKW.4 (Social Studies): Develops an understanding of how people and things change over time and how to relate past events to their present and future activities.

Questions That Will Be Asked Throughout The Week:

Level 1: Recall 

• When and where are babies born?
• What are some ways babies are carried? What are some noises that babies make?

Level 2: Skill/Concept

• Every day, everywhere babies are rocked. Why do you think people rock babies?
• Every day, everywhere babies are kissed. Why do you think people like to kiss babies?
• Every day, everywhere babies make friends. How do babies make friends?

Level 3: Strategic Thinking

• Why do you think babies usually crawl before they walk?
• What do you think babies think about when they are learning to walk?
• When babies first start to walk they fall a lot. How do you think that makes them feel?

Level 4: Extended Thinking

• Babies are growing. How are you growing?
• In this book, babies make friends with puppies, kittens, young people and old people. How do you make friends?

Lessons and Activities for the Week:

Blocks- Students will be invited to consider some of the furniture people can use to care for babies (ex. cradle) and use blocks to build these items.

Pretend Play- Pretend Play will be turned into a baby nursery.  Students will pretend to care for babies by feeding, cleaning, and changing the baby dolls provided.

Art- Students are invited to create their own baby portraits with a variety of art materials.

Science- Students will be able to play a matching game, matching the adult animal to its offspring.

Math- Cutouts of babies of various lengths will be added to the math center.  Students will be able to measure each baby and tell which is longest and shortest.

Library- Students are invited to read books about our theme, babies.

Writing- Cards will be supplied with pictures of animal babies as well as their names. They will be placed in a bin for children to reference as they create their own animal baby book.

Sensory- Sand and water, or play-doh.

For more information on the Lesson Plan, click HERE!

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