Reminders / Notices:
- School resumes on Monday, January 3rd!
- School/Church doors close at 8:15 AM
- No admittance after 8:15 AM beginning today.
- 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 is no early pickup/appointments etc. -- if there is an appointment the child should remain home.
- 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 modesof transportation?
Focus Questions for this Week:
What kinds of transportation do I use and why?
Focused Learning Activity for the Week:
Mrs. Gonzalez and Mrs. Madera will work with students in the blocks area. Teacher will provide long wooden planks and ask students how they think they can create a ramp. Teacher will then ask how they can make the ramp more or less steep. Students will then be able to predict which ramp will make the car go down the fastest and why.
PK.SCI.10. [K-2-ETS1-1.]Asks questions, makes observations, and gathers information about a situation people want to change to define a simple problem that can be solved through the development of a new or improved object or tool
Foundational text for the week:
The Lost Property Office by Emily Rand
Questions that will be asked throughout the week related to the foundational text:
Level 1: Recall
What does the girl leave on the train?
Where is the little girl going when she leaves Teddy on the train?
Who takes the girl to find Teddy?
Level 2: Skill/Concept
Why do you think the girl was so sad about losing Teddy?
Have you ever lost anything special? How did that feel?
Did you ever lose something special and then get it back later? How did that feel?
Level 3: Strategic Thinking
There were many, many things at the lost property office. Why do you think there were so many things there?
How do the things people leave on the train get to the lost property office?
Level 4: Extended Thinking
There were lots of glasses, umbrellas, hats, and teddy bears at the lost property office. Why do you think were so many of these items there?
What types of things might be easy to leave on the train? What types of things might be harder to leave on the train? 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.
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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