🚌 Week of January 23, 2023 🚁

 WEEKLY REMINDERS 

·      Valentine's Day 💟Assemblies Tuesday, February 14, 2023, at 10:30 (Parents are invited).

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 Unit Topic

 Transportation  

  Essential Question for the Unit:

How does my community use various modes of transportation? 

Focus Question for the Week Related to the Text

What kinds of transportation do I use and why?

Focused Learning Activity for the Week:

Transportation Museum

The teacher will work with students in the pretend play area, creating materials that we can find at a transportation museum.  The teacher will ask students to think of things they can find at an airport after showing children pictures.  The 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 transportation museum.

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 these 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.AL.3 Approaches tasks and problems with creativity, imagination, and/or willingness to try new experiences.

Foundational Text for the Week

The Lost Property Office by Emily Rand the 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 transportation museum. Students are invited to create a plane using large pieces of cardboard.  

Art-Make a Vehicle:

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-Paper Airplanes:

The teacher will provide simple directions for folding a paper airplane and invite children to try to fold their own. Encourage the 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 have been 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- Students will be able to play with their own individual containers of play-doh and sand.

For more information on the Lesson Plan, click 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.