Week of May 15th!!

WEEKLY REMINDERS

• Friday, May 19, 2023 - School Closed all grades; all classes. 
• Tuesday, May 23rd at 10:00 AM - Moving up Ceremony. 
• The Moving Up Ceremony theme is Under the Sea. 
• June 15th After School program last day
• June 23 Last Day of school dismissal at 11:00am   

Always make sure to read the OLQM School Blog for additional information, located

If you have any questions or concerns, you can email me at mrsgonzalez@olqmnyc.org or text/call (862)248-2941. 

Unit Topic:

Plants 

Essential Question for the Unit:

How do plants grow and why are they important?  

Focus Questions for this Week:

What are plants? 

Focused Learning Activity for this Week

  Flower Shop 

The teacher will work with students in the dramatic play center. She will discuss the roles available to children in the classroom flower shop and what each job requires. Students will choose a job, either customer, cashier, or florist, and assume the roles they selected.

 

Pre-K Common Core Learning Standard Addressed:

PK.SOC.3 Demonstrates an understanding of roles, rights, and responsibilities

Foundational text for the week:

 Flower Garden by Eve Bunting

Link to the foundational text HERE! 

Questions that will be asked throughout the week related to the foundational text:

Level 1: Recall 

What did the girl plant in her garden? Where did the girl plant her garden? Why did the girl plant a garden? 

Level 2: Skill/Concept 

Where did the girl get the flowers for her garden? How do you know? Why do you think people smiled at the girl when she was on the bus? Where does the girl live? How do you know?

Level 3: Strategic Thinking 

How do you think the girl’s mom felt about her birthday gift? Why? How do you think the girl felt about making a garden for her mom’s birthday? Why?

Level 4: Extended Thinking 

Let’s look closely at the garden and see what we notice. What do you notice about the plants in the garden? How are they similar? How are they different? Which one do you like best? Why? 

Lesson and activities for the week:

Blocks- Students will be invited to build a garden using blocks and materials added to the block center.

Pretend Play- The teacher will turn Dramatic Play into a flower shop by adding pretend flowers, containers, pictures of flower arrangements, a cash register, a notepad, writing utensils, etc. Children can pretend to make, buy, and sell floral arrangements. Vocabulary words such as bouquet, floral arrangement, florist, and flower will be highlighted.

Art- The teacher will supply pipe cleaners as well as tissue paper circles. Children can pierce the middle of the tissue paper circles with the pipe cleaner, adding as many as they would like, then fold the circles up to create a flower. After creating these flowers children can use them in the Dramatic Play flower shop.

Science- The teacher will provide individual pictures of the plant life cycle. Students will be asked to sequence the pictures. The teacher will provide pictures/diagrams for children to refer to as they discuss each stage in the life cycle. 

Math- The teacher will cut out several paper watermelons, add a number to each one, and ask the children to put the appropriate number of seeds on each watermelon. Students are encouraged to write the corresponding number.

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

Writing- Students will write letters on a sheet of construction paper.  They can glue seeds onto the letter.  The teacher will talk with students about words that start with the letter.

Sensory- Students will be able to play with their own individual containers of play-doh.