Week of January 23rd!!

WEEKLY REMINDERS

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• Please remember to send sleeping mats to school. 
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Unit Topic:

Transportation

Essential Question for the Unit:

How does my community use various modes of transportation?

Focus Questions for this Week:

What kinds of transportation do I use and why?

Focused Learning Activity for the Week:

Subway Station 

Teacher will work with students in the pretend play area, creating materials for a subway station.  Teacher will ask students to think of things that a subway station has   (train, metro cards, metro card machine, etc.)  Teacher will then ask students how they think we can build these materials for our pretend play area.  Students will paint and build materials to transform pretend play into a subway station.

Differentiation: For all children to be successful multiple entry points will be taken into consideration to meet individual students’ needs.  For example, repeat directions, extend time, adapt materials, preview questions, and provide 1:1 support.

For children who need additional support: The teacher will work 1:1 with children or in a smaller group. 

For children who are ready for a challenge: Children will be provided with more material, pictures and ideas. 

Children whose home language is a language other than English:The teacher will provide the activity in the child’s native language.

Pre-K Common Core Learning Standard Addressed:

PK.SOC.3. Demonstrates an understanding of roles,

rights, and responsibilities.    

                                               

Foundational text for the week:

The Lost Property Office by Emily Rand

Link to the foundational text HERE!

Questions that will be asked throughout the week related to the foundational text:

Level 1: Recall

What does the girl leave on the train?

Where is the little girl going when she leaves Teddy on the train?

Who takes the girl to find Teddy?

Level 2: Skill/Concept

Why do you think the girl was so sad about losing Teddy?

Have you ever lost anything special? How did that feel?

Did you ever lose something special and then get it back later? How did that feel?

Level 3: Strategic Thinking

There were many, many things at the lost property office. Why do you think there were so many things there?

How do the things people leave on the train get to the lost property office?

Level 4: Extended Thinking

There were lots of glasses, umbrellas, hats, and teddy bears at the lost property office. Why do you think were so many of these items there?

What types of things might be easy to leave on the train? What types of things might be harder to leave on the train? Why? 

Lessons and activities for the week:

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

Pretend Play- Pretend Play will be transformed into a train station. Students are invited to create a train using large pieces of cardboard.  

Art-The teacher will provide recycled materials (e.g., boxes, empty and clean food containers) as well as tape and/or glue and invite children to build vehicles. Provide pictures of vehicles for the children to reference and encourage them to develop a plan for the building before they begin. Have them consider what they will make and what materials they will need.

Science- The teacher will provide simple directions for folding a paper airplane and invite children to try to fold their own. Encourage children to explore how they might make the airplanes fly.

Math- Students will be invited to match numbered cars to the corresponding amount of people each car holds. 

Library- Students are invited to sequence the pictures and retell a familiar story, using a felt board.

Writing- Students will be invited to match lettered cars to their corresponding spots in a "parking lot".

Sensory- Sand and water, or play-doh.

For more information on the Lesson Plan, click HERE!

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