🏢 Week of January 16, 2023 🏠

WEEKLY REMINDERS

·      Friday, January 20, 2023 Vision and Hearing Testing - NYC Department of Health for all 4-year-olds.

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If you have any questions or concerns, you can email me at MrsHernandez@olqmnyc.org I will do my best to answer at the end of the day. 

Unit Topic

Where we live? 

Essential Question for the Unit:

Where do people and animals live around me?

Focus Question for the Week Related to the Text

How do people and animals make homes?

Focused Learning Activity for the Week:

Blueprints

The teacher will show the children a couple of blueprints and ask them what they think they are. The teacher will share that blueprints are used in construction. They are the plans for a building that help construction workers know what to do as they build. Students will be invited to investigate the blueprints. What do they notice? Do they see windows and doors? A roof? Etc. Children will be encouraged to make their own blueprints. The teacher will ask the children to think about a building they would like to create. Children will be provided with dry-erase markers, a blueprint or chalk, blue paper, and a ruler to choose how to create their building.

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. The teacher will pick 1-3 aspects of a blueprint to focus on. 

For children who are ready for a challenge: Children will be provided with building materials (small blocks, Lincoln Logs, etc.) to build the buildings they designed.

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.SCI.11 Develops a simple sketch, drawing, or physical model to illustrate how the shape of an object helps it function as needed to solve a given problem.

Foundational Text for the Week

It's Moving Day by Pamela Hickman the link to the foundational text HERE

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

Level 1: Recall 

Where is the burrow?

What are some of the animals who lived in the burrow? 

What happens on Moving Day? 

 Level 2: Skill/Concept

The first woodchuck that moved out of the burrow left so he could move to a farmer’s field where there was more food for him to eat. How do you think the farmer would feel about that? Why?

How do you think the animals knew when the burrow was empty, and they could move in?

Level 3: Strategic Thinking

After the first snake moved into the burrow, other snakes came to join it. Why do you think the snakes wanted to live together in the burrow?

All of the snakes left the burrow at the same time. How do you think you might feel if you were by the burrow and saw all the snakes leaving together? Why?

Level 4: Extended Thinking

Why did the animals like living in the burrow?

Some of the animals lived in the burrow alone. Some of the animals lived in the burrow with other animals. Would you like to live in the burrow with any of the animals? Why or why not? The burrow is beneath the big tree. How do you think the burrow got there?

Lessons and Activities for the Week: 

Blocks- Children will be provided with pictures of different types of homes and buildings in the block center. Children will be encouraged to discuss what shapes they can use to recreate the structures.

Dramatic Play- Children will be invited to create the façade of a home using a very large piece of flat cardboard.

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 their 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 blueprints 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, click HERE

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