Reminders / Notices:
- Please remember to send sleeping mats to school.
- School/Church doors close at 8:15 AM
- Winnie The Pooh Day Tommorow . Children may dress up like Winnie The Pooh.
- Late drop-offs will no longer be permitted to enter the building.
- All students will be temperature tested upon arrival to school
- No adults are permitted in the building past the table at the main door.
- Dismissal times remain as 3:00 PM for all PreK classes.
- There are no early pickup/appointments etc. -- if there is an appointment the child should remain home.
- Monitor your and your child’s health and stay home when sick except for getting essential medical care (including COVID-19 testing) and other essential needs.
- Practice social/physical distancing.
- Wear a face covering: Protect those around you. Wearing a face covering helps reduce the spread of COVID-19, especially if you are sick and don’t have symptoms.
- All parents etc. coming near the building are required to have a mask on their face for the safety of all students and staff.
- A reminder that all students in PreK and Kindergarten are required under New York State Law to have the flu vaccine before returning to school.
Unit Topic:
Transportation
Essential Question for the Unit:
How does my community use various modes of transportation?
Focus Questions for this Week:
Who operates the vehicles in my community?
Focused Learning Activity for the Week:
Number Parking Lot
The teacher will work with students in the math center. She will assist students in numeral recognition by matching numbered cars to the corresponding "parking spot"
Pre-K Common Core Learning Standard Addressed:
PK. MATH.3. a. When counting objects, says the number names in the standard order, pairing each object with one and only one number name and each number name with one and only one object. (1:1 correspondence)
Foundational texts The links to the
for the week: foundational texts:
Trucksby Donald Crews Click Here
School Busby Donald Crews Click Here
Flyingby Donald Crews Click Here
Harborby Donald Crews Click Here
Questions that will be asked throughout the week related to the foundational text:
Truckby Donald Crews
Level 1: Recall
What was in the back of the truck?
Level 2: Skill/Concept
What was the truck in this book doing? How do you know?
Level 3: Strategic Thinking
There are many pictures in this book and only a few words. That means I used the pictures to tell this story and there are many different ways we could tell the story. Let’s take a look at some of the pages and tell a partner what we think could be happening.
School Busby Donald Crews
Level 1: Recall
What do school buses do?
Level 2: Skill/Concept
Why are school buses helpful?
Level 3: Strategic Thinking
Why are school buses yellow?
Harborby Donald Crews
Level 1: Recall
What were some of the boats that were in the harbor?
Level 2: Skill/Concept
Why is the tugboat the busiest boat in the harbor?
Level 3: Strategic Thinking
Ferryboats do not need to turn around because the back becomes the front. What other vehicles don’t need to turn around? What are some vehicles that do need to turn around?
Flyingby Donald Crews
Level 1: Recall
What were some of the things the plane flew over?
Level 2: Skill/Concept
The airplane in this book flew through the clouds. What do you think it is like to fly through the clouds?
Level 3: Strategic Thinking
There are many different types of transportation. When might it be helpful to take an airplane?
**After reading several, or all, of the Donald Crews books, children will be asked the following
Level 4: Strategic Thinking questions:
We have read several books written and illustrated by Donald Crews.
What is similar about all of these books? What is different?
We read several books by Donald Crews about transportation.
He wrote other books about transportation, too. Why do you think Donald Crews wrote about transportation?
If you were going to write a book about transportation, what type of vehicle or travel would you write about? Why?
Lessons and activities for the week:
Blocks- Students are invited to create a variety of ramps and use different vehicles to race, predicting which one will go down the fastest and why.
Pretend Play - The pretend play center will be turned into a train station.
Art-An assortment of shape cutouts and pictures of vehicles will be added to the center. Students will be invited to reference the vehicles to create their own vehicles.
Science-Teacher will model how to draw a simple map with roads. Students will be provided with metal cars and magnetic wands. Students will be encouraged to make their car move down the road by using the magnet wands.
Math- Students will be invited to match numbered cars to the corresponding amount of people each car holds.
Library- Students are invited to sequence the pictures and retell a familiar story, using a felt board.
Writing- Students will be invited to match lettered cars to their corresponding spots in a "parking lot".
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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