Week of May 8, 2023 

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May 12, 2023, Mother's Day Celebration via Zoom (10:00 am)

May 25^th at 10:00 AM - Prek-4 Moving up Ceremony! 

June 15, 2023 -The last day of the Afterschool Program

June 23, 2023- Last Day of School, Dismissal at 11:00am

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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:

 Water 

Essential Question for the Unit:

  What does water do?  

 

Focus Questions for this Week:

     How does water help us?

 Focused Learning Activity for this Week

 

Stalks and Water

The teacher will supply students with a container of colored water. The students will be invited to add a leafy celery stalk to the water. The teacher will ask students to predict what will happen if they leave the stalk in the water overnight. The teacher will record students’ predictions and invite them to monitor the stalks periodically. As the colored water becomes visible in the celery stalk or leaves, the teacher will invite students to discuss how the stalk transports the water. The following day, the teacher will refer back to students’ predictions to summarize and draw conclusions.

The teacher will inform students that water helps move nutrients through plants. This helps plants stay alive. Without water, plants will start to wilt and eventually die.

 

 Open-ended questions

What did you observe here/when ____?
What did your sense of ____ tell you about ____? 

I wonder what would happen if ____?
How do you know? How could we find out?

 

Pre-K Common Core Learning Standard Addressed:

 PK.SCI.5 Plans and conducts investigations to determine how familiar plants and/or animals use their external parts to help them survive in the environment

  

Foundational text for the week:

             Ivy and the Lonely Raincloud by Katie Harnett 

             Link to the foundational text HERE! 

  

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

 

Level 1: Recall 

Why was the raincloud sad at the beginning of the book? 

Where did the raincloud look for a friend? 

 

Level 2: Skill/Concept 

No one wanted to be friends with the raincloud. Why? 

Ivy was grumpy for most of the book. Why was Ivy so grumpy? How did the raincloud help Ivy? 

 

Level 3: Strategic Thinking 

Why can it be nice to have friends? 

How did Ivy and the raincloud grow beautiful flowers together? 

 

Level 4: Extended Thinking 

At the end of the book, it looks like the raincloud was inside the flower shop with Ivy. What would you think if you went in a store and there was a raincloud there? What would you do? 

Rain from the raincloud helped Ivy grow beautiful plants, how does water help you? 

   

Lesson and activities for the week:

 

Blocks- Pictures of bridges will be added to the center. Students are encouraged to try to build bridges. 

 

Pretend Play- Large cardboard boxes will be added to Pretend Play for students to pretend they are in a boat. 

 

Art- Students are invited to draw a picture with crayons. They may choose to draw an underwater or rainy-day scene. After their drawings are complete, watercolor paints will be used to lightly paint over their crayon drawings. 

 

Science- Students are invited to sort animals into two categories: those that live in water and those that live on land. 

 

Math- Seashells will be added to the math center. Students will be able to match the correct number of shells to a number card. 

 

Library- Students are invited to read books about the theme, of water.

 

Writing- Students will be asked the question, "Where can we find water?" and be asked to write or draw their answers.

 

Sensory- Sand and water, or Play-Doh.

 

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