Week of June 5, 2023
WEEKLY REMINDERS
· Thursday,
June 8, 2023 – Pre-k for all closed for professional development
· Friday, June
9, 2023 - School Closed all grades and all classes.
· Thursdays,
June 15, 2023, Pre-k Father’s Day Celebration by Zoom At 10:00Am
· June 15th
last day of After School Program
· June 23rd
Last Day of school dismissal at 11:00am
Always make sure
to read the OLQM School Blog for additional information, located HERE!
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: Plants
Essential Question for the Unit:
How do plants grow and why are they important?
Focus Questions for this Week:
Why are plants important?
Focused Learning
Activity for this Week
Plant Taste Test
The teachers will talk with the children about where food
comes from and why it is important for their bodies. Highlight plant-based
foods and parts of plants that people commonly eat. The teachers will then
supply a variety of plants for children to sample and talk about their favorite
and their least favorite.
Pre-K Common Core Learning Standard Addressed:
PK.SCI.4. [P-LS1-1.] Observes familiar plants and animals
(including humans) and describe what they need to survive
Foundational text for the week:
The link for the read-aloud of this week’s foundational
text, Rah, Rah, Radishes: A Vegetable Chant by April Pulley Sayre HERE!
Questions that will be asked throughout the week related
to the foundational text:
Level 1: Recall
What are some of the vegetables in this book? Who gets a
“thank you” in this book?
Level 2: Skill/Concept
There is a page in this book about sweet corn. It says to
“shuck an ear.” What does it mean to “shuck an ear” when you are talking about
sweet corn? This book suggests many different things we could do while we read.
Let’s look and see if we can find and try some. Examples include Carrots are
calling, take a bite! Broccoli, cauliflower, shout it out! Pile up peppers
Celebrate celery, give a cheer! Root for rutabagas. Bounce for beets! Potatoes.
Tomatoes. Yum a yam! Slice ‘em. Mash ‘em. Wham! Wham! Wham!
Level 3: Strategic Thinking
Have you ever had any of the vegetables in this book?
What did you think? If you haven’t had any of these vegetables, which ones do
you think you might want to try? Why?
What do you notice about the vegetables in this book? Why
is it important to observe, or look carefully at something?
Level 4: Extended Thinking
This book is all about vegetables. Why do you think the
author, April Pulley Sayre, might have wanted to write a book about vegetables?
Vegetables can be different colors. We saw many of them in this book. Why do
you think vegetables are different colors?
Lesson and activities for the week:
Blocks- Students will be invited to build a garden using
blocks and materials added to the block center.
Pretend Play- The teacher will turn Dramatic Play into a
flower shop by adding pretend flowers, containers, pictures of flower
arrangements, a cash register, a notepad, writing utensils, etc. Children can
pretend to make, buy, and sell floral arrangements. Vocabulary words such as
bouquet, floral arrangement, florist, and flower will be highlighted.
Art- The teacher will supply pipe cleaners as well as
tissue paper circles. Children can pierce the middle of the tissue paper
circles with the pipe cleaner, adding as many as they would like, then fold the
circles up to create a flower. After creating these flowers children can use
them in the Dramatic Play flower shop.
Science- The teacher will provide individual pictures of
the plant life cycle. Students will be asked to sequence the pictures. The
teacher will provide pictures/diagrams for children to refer to as they discuss
each stage in the life cycle.
Math- The teacher will cut out several paper watermelons,
add a number to each one, and ask the children to put the appropriate number of
seeds on each watermelon. Students are encouraged to write the corresponding
number.
Library- Students are invited to read books about our
theme, plants.
Writing- Students will write letters on a sheet of
construction paper. They can glue seeds
onto the letter. The teacher will talk
with students about words that start with the letter.
Sensory- Students will be able to play with their own
individual containers of 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
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