Unit Topic: Where We Live
Student Outcomes
Enduring understandings that the student should have by the end of the unit:
- Homes are the places where we live.
- Animals and people have many different types of homes.
- Some animals live with people.
- People and animals make homes.
LEARNING CENTERS
Blocks- Children will be invited to build skyscraper apartment buildings and build apartment buildings as tall as they can.
Pretend Play- Turn the Dramatic Play area into a barn. Create stalls and add stuffed animals, hay, troughs for feeding and tools for caring for the animals.
Art- Students will be supplied with popsicle sticks in order for them to create a home by gluing sticks onto paper.
Science- Multiple pictures of animals and their homes will be provided in science center for students to match.
Math- Lincoln Logs will be available for students to build homes.
Library- The students will be provided with pieces of flannel cut to represent parts of homes such as roofs, windows, doors to go with the stories The Three Little Pigs and the Somewhat Bad Wolf by Mark Teague or The Napping House by Audrey Wood. Students will be encouraged to tell stories about them or the people who live in the homes.
Writing/Technology- Weekly learning games on iPads are provided.
Sensory- Sand and water, and play-doh.
Books of the week:
A Home for Hermit Crab by Eric Carle
The ABC Book of American Homes by Michael Shoulders
Recommended Home School Connection:
Monday -Universal Handwriting pages 22 and 23
Tuesday – Universal Handwriting Book pages 24 and 25
Wednesday –Building Blocks Math News Worksheet
Universal Handwriting Book pages 26 and 27
Thursday - Universal Handwriting Book pages 28 and 29
Friday - Universal Handwriting Book pages 30 and 31
Reminders: **Please Mark Your Calendars**
- Parents are invited to our annual Holiday Show on December 14th at 9:00 a.m.
- There is no after school on Friday, December 16th.
- Christmas Break is from December 22nd – January 3rd!
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