Week of March 3rd!

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Unit Topic:

     Water

Essential Question for the Unit:

          What does water do?

Focus Questions for this Week:

     Where can we find water?

Focused Learning activity for the week:

      Mrs. Gonzalez and Mrs. Tavares will work with students in the Dramatic Play Center.  Students will be asked to brainstorm and come up with a list of things we need in order to transform our center into a lake with boats.  Students will be assisted as we paint and build cardboard boats for our center.  

Pre-K Common Core Learning Standard Addressed:

PK.CKW.5 (The Arts): Participates in a variety of dramatic play activities to represent fantasy and real life experiences.

Foundational Text for the Week:

Water Dance by Thomas Locker

Pre-K Common Core Learning Standard Addressed:

PK.CKW.4 (Science): Observes and describes characteristics of earth and space.

QUESTIONS THAT WILL BE ASKED THROUGHOUT THE WEEK:

Level 1: Recall

• Where does the rain fall from?
• What is high above the earth in the blue sky?
• What is still and deep and overflows?
• What is a waterfall?

Level 2: Skill/Concept

• What are all of the things described in this book (rain, stream, waterfall, etc.) made of?
• This book says that clouds can look like many different shapes in the sky. Are there clouds in the sky today? What shapes do you see in the clouds?

Level 3: Strategic Thinking

• The storm in this book made the sky dark. How do storms and clouds make the sky dark?
• This book shows many different places in the environment where we can find water. Where are some places in our classroom where we can find water?

Level 4: Extended Thinking

• At the beginning of the book it says, “Some people say that I am one thing. Others say that I am many.”How can something be one thing and many things at the same time?
• Compare the pictures to what we see when we go outside. What is the same? What is different?
• How do you think water gets to our classroom?

Lessons and activities for the week:

Blocks- Pictures of bridges will be added to the center. Students are encouraged to try to build bridges. 

Pretend Play- Large cardboard boxes will be added to Pretend Play for students to pretend they are in a boat. 

Art- Students are invited to draw a picture with crayons. They may choose to draw an underwater or rainy day scene. After their drawings are complete, watercolor paints will be used to lightly paint over their crayon drawings. 

Science- Students are invited to sort animals into two categories: those that live in water and those that live on land. 

Math- Seashells will be added to math center. Students will be able to match the correct number of shells to a number card. 

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

Writing- Students will be asked the question, "Where can we find water?" and be asked to write or draw their answers.

Sensory- Sand and water, or play-doh.

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