Week of February 6th

Unit Topic: Transportation

Student Outcomes 
Enduring understandings that the student should have by the end of the unit: 

• I use transportation to get to pre-K and other places.
• We use different types of transportation for different reasons. 
• Vehicles move in different ways.
• My family is important and unique.
• Some vehicles are operated by community helpers such as bus drivers, conductors, firefighters, police officers and mail carriers. There are many ways to stay safe when using transportation. 

Learning Centers and Activities

Blocks: Children will be invited to create a variety of ramps and use different vehicles to race, predicting which one will go down the fastest and why.

Dramatic Play:The Dramatic Play area will be turned into a subway station. Children will be invited to create a train station with cardboard.

Art:The children will be supplied with an assortment of shape cutouts and small vehicles or pictures of vehicles to create their own.

Math: The children will be provided with cut out pictures of traffic signs. The children will be invited to match the sign to a sign outline.

Science /Discovery Area:The children will be encouraged to create their own parachute with a coffee maker and a string. The children will investigate various weights and compare the results when they drop the parachute with various items to consider what is happening and why.

Sensory:Sand and water, or play-doh.

Library:The teacher will select a few books the class currently enjoys and create a graph for children to share which books they like best.

Writing: The teacher will create a parking lot for vehicles on a piece of cardboard. A letter will be written on each of the parking spots as well as on an assortment of small vehicles. Children will be invited to park the vehicles in the correct parking space.

Technology:The teacher will use a search engine to pull up pictures of bridges. The children will be asked how they think bridges work and encourage them to try to build bridges in the Blocks/Construction Area.

Books of the week
Whose Vehicle is This? by Sharon Katz Cooper
Go! Go! Go! Stop! by Charise Mericle Harper


Reminders
Monday, February 20th -School Closed
Wednesday, February 22nd is our Black History Month Presentation.  Performances begin at 9:00 a.m.

Recommended Home School Connection:
Monday - Universal Handwriting Book pages 42 and 43
Tuesday – Universal Handwriting Book pages 45 and 46
Wednesday – Universal Handwriting Book pages 47 and 48
Thursday - Universal Handwriting Book pages 49 and 50
Friday - Math News Worksheet

Weekly Lesson Plan

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