REMINDERS
· Please bring in a picture of your family for us to hang on our family wall!
· Please remember to send sleeping mats to school.
· Seesaw accounts have been set up for all students. You can find your child’s access code on an index card located in the Home-School Connection folder.
· Always make sure to read the OLQM School Blog for additional information, located HERE!
· If you have any questions or concerns, you can email me at mrsgonzalez@olqmnyc.org or text/call (862) 248-2941
· Christmas recess begins at dismissal on Tuesday, December 21st. School resumes on Monday, January 3rd!
Unit Topic:
· Where we live?
Essential Question for the Unit:
· Where do people and animals live around me?
Focus Question for the Week cont.:
· Where do people and animals live?
Focused Learning Activity for the Week cont.:
The teacher will have a set of cards with different animals. She will ask the students where they think each animal lives, modeling how to put the animal card on the correct habitat sheet. Teacher will observe students in the science center as they match animals to their habitat, asking higher order thinking questions, such as "Why do you think an animal would need thick fur to live in the arctic?"
Pre-K Common Core Learning Standard Addressed:
PK.SCI.5. Observes familiar plants and animals (including humans) and describes what they need to survive.
Foundational Text for the Week cont.:
· Ruby’s Birds by Mya Thompson
· The link to the foundational text HERE!!
Questions that will be asked throughout the week related to the foundational text cont.:
Level 1: Recall
Where did Eva and Ruby go together?
What did Eva want show Ruby in the park?
What did Ruby want to show her family in the park?
Level 2: Skill/Concept
Do you think Ruby knew that birds lived in Central
Park before she went there with Eva? Why do you
think that?
What type of home do you think Ruby and Eva live
in? How do you know?
Level 3: Strategic Thinking
Eva liked to hear the warbler’s song because it is a
sound she heard at her home in Costa Rica. What
are some sounds you like to hear? Why?
Eva wanted Ruby to be quiet when they were in
Central Park together. Do you think Ruby likes to be
quiet? How do you know?
Level 4: Extended Thinking
Eva taught Ruby how to watch for birds living in
Central Park. How might we find birds near us?
In this book, there was a bird living in Ruby’s house
(her pet, Alex) and birds living in Central Park.
Where else can birds live?
Lessons and Activities for the Week:
Blocks- Children will be provided with pictures of different types of homes and buildings in block center. Children will be encouraged to discuss what shapes they can use to recreate the structures.
Dramatic Play- Children will encouraged to decorate a building façade that will be used in the pretend play area.
Art- Children will be supplied with popsicle sticks in order for them to create a home by gluing sticks onto paper.
Science- Children will be able to identify the different habitats that animals live in. Children will be encouraged to use pictures to match the animals to the habitats.
Math- Children will be provided with people figures, number cards, and pictures of homes which will be placed in the math center. Students will be encouraged to pick a number card, and place the corresponding number of people into a car.
Library- Students are encouraged to look at two non-fiction books about homes and compare and contrast what they see.
Writing- Students will discover blueprints and create their own blueprint with write and wipe blueprint mats.
Sensory- Students will be able to play with their individual containers of play-doh.
For more information on the Lesson Plan,HERE!!
If there are any questions regarding the Pre-K for All program that cannot be answered by the office or classroom teacher, please feel free to contact the Help Line at 888-227-8175.
