September Theme: Welcome to Pre-K
Student Outcomes
Enduring understandings that the student should have by the end of the unit:
• My classroom and program are safe places where I learn, play and have fun.
• I am an important member of my classroom community; my thoughts, needs, ideas and abilities matter.
• My family, my teachers*, and other children make up my classroom community; their backgrounds, thoughts, needs, ideas and abilities matter.
• The teachers and other adults at my program keep me safe, care about me and support my learning.
• In my classroom I use materials carefully and make choices about where I work and play.
• Classroom rules and routines help me learn and stay safe.
Student Outcomes
Enduring understandings that the student should have by the end of the unit:
• My classroom and program are safe places where I learn, play and have fun.
• I am an important member of my classroom community; my thoughts, needs, ideas and abilities matter.
• My family, my teachers*, and other children make up my classroom community; their backgrounds, thoughts, needs, ideas and abilities matter.
• The teachers and other adults at my program keep me safe, care about me and support my learning.
• In my classroom I use materials carefully and make choices about where I work and play.
• Classroom rules and routines help me learn and stay safe.
Lesson and activities for the week:
Blocks-Encourage children to use blocks to build buildings they are familiar with such as those they live in or visit often.
Dramatic Play: The children will be invited to explore the dramatic play area and use the props and multicultural clothing.
Art: The children will be encouraged to draw self portraits with the use of a mirror. They will be encouraged to look at their faces carefully in the mirror then draw what they see.
Science/ Discovery: The children will be provided with mirrors to explore and discuss what they see.
Toys and Games / Math Manipulatives: Children will be encouraged to use table toys/ manipulatives to build the classroom.
Sand and Water / Sensory: Children will be encouraged to dig through
the sand to find themselves and their peers laminated pictures.
Library:The children will be provided with puppets or stuffed animals to read books from the classroom library.
Computer/Technology: Children will be provided with enriching learning games on the iPad.
Writing: The children will be encouraged to explore the tools in the writing center.
Home-School Connection
- Look for things that can come in pairs, such as shoes and matching chairs. Have your child count these objects.
- Encourage your child to point to written numbers such as clocks, telephones etc.
- Place your child's snack in several small groups, and ask : Which group has three(or another number)?
- Count the amount of objects your child can grab in one handful. Ask your child to describe the objects (size, color, shape..)
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