Week of June 3rd!

Reminders / Notices:

• Donuts with Dad will be on Thursday, June 13th, at 10:00 am in the gymnasium. 
• School is Closed on Friday, June 14th.  
• School is Closed on Friday, June 21st.
• Our Moving Up Ceremony is on Tuesday, June 25th!   
• Three (3) adults are invited to attend the ceremony per student. 

Unit Topic:

• Babies

Essential Question for the Unit:

• What are babies?

Focus Question for the Week:

• How do babies change?

Focused Learning Activity for the Week:

• Mrs. Gonzalez and Mrs. Tavares will work with students in the math center.  Students will use unifix cubes to measure cutouts of babies.  Students will be asked to identify which baby is the longest and which is the shortest.  

Pre-K Common Core Learning Standard Addressed:

PK.CKW.1 (Measurement and Data): 

• Identify measurable attributes of objects such as length and weight. Describe them using correct vocabulary (e.g., small, big, short, tall, empty, full, heavy and light).

Foundational Text for the Week:

• When I was Little: A Four-Year-Olds Memoir of her Youth by Jamie Lee Curtis

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

• What are some of the things the girl in the book did
• When the girl was little she cried a lot. What does she do now?

Level 2: Skill/Concept

• What is a memoir?
• The girl in this book shares many things about her from when she was little. What are some things you did when you were little?

Level 3: Strategic Thinking

• The little girl in this book says she is more helpful now than when she was a baby. Can babies be helpful? Why or why not?
• What are some things babies need help with?

Level 4: Extended Thinking

• What are some ways you are different now than when you were little?
• What are some ways you are the same now as when you were little?

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 !

If there are any questions regarding the Pre-K for All program that can not be answered by the office or classroom teacher, please feel free to contact the Help Line at 888-227-8175.