💥 Week of January 2, 2023 💥

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Under New York State and City Health codes all Pre-K and Kindergarten students are required to have an annual Flu shot . Students will be required to remain at home until proof is provided that your child has received the Flu vaccine.

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Unit Topic:

Where we live?

Essential Question for the Unit:

Where do people and animals live around me?

Focus Question for the Week:

Where do animals live?

Focused Learning Activity for the Week

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.The teacher will observe students in the science center as they match animals to their habitats.

For children who need additional support:

The teacher will provide fewer sets of cards to match.  

For children who are ready for a challenge:

The teacher will provide more sets of cards to match and ask higher-order thinking questions, such as "Why do you think an animal would need thick fur to live in the arctic?"

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.4.  Observes familiar plants and animals (including humans) and describes what they need to survive

Foundational Text for the Week:

Ruby’s Birds by MyaThompson

The link to the foundational text HERE

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

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 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 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