REMINDERS!
- Please make sure that your child walks into the school building with a mask at all time.
- Please make sure your child has two extra change of clothes, including underwear, tops bottoms and socks.
- Please remember to bring sleeping mats to school.
Exploration Topic: Our Environment
Essential Question: What can we discover about community?
Month Four: Moving
Weekly Focus: Noticing Things That Move
Focused Learning Activity for the week:
GOAL: P-ATL11 Child shows interest in and curiosity about the world around them.
Weekly Foundational Text: Supertruck by Stephen Savage: When the City is hit by a colossal snowstorm, only one hero can save the day.
Weekly Teacher Reflections:
-How am I helping the children notice things that move? What related materials am I providing for them to explore?
-How am I helping the children investigate the moving parts of things? What materials am I providing for them to explore?
-How am I learning what the children are noticing and find most interesting in this study?
Learning Centers Available for the Themes:
BLOCKS: Children are invited to explored the block area. Children will be motivated of how our body or things move, and how it helps us to build things in this area.
DRAMATIC PLAY: Children are invited to go and explore the dramatic play center, and they are encouraged to use the props provided. Teacher will invite children to explore animals/costumes and ask children what are some ways that different animals move?
ART: Children are invited to explore and use the art area. They will be encouraged to use the props and manipulate them, Teacher will shown materials that children can use to make things that move, for example, play-dough.
SCIENCE: Children will be encouraged to participate in the science area. Children can find a variety of natural objects, and they will be shown a few items from a natural objects collection. The teacher will show children some insects from these collection, and children will identify which of them can fly or walk with the teacher help.
MATH: Children are invited to use the materials in this area. The teacher will introduce to children some objects that can help us to count and match them with its correspondents. Children are encourage to use the props provided.
LIBRARY: Student are able to explore books from the classroom library.
WRITING: Student are encouraged to explore the materials in the writing center. Children are encourage to explore toy vehicle with markers taped and discover what they do when it moves. Children are invited and encouraged to explore their name cards and the ABCs letters.
SENSORY: Student will be shown a small amount of sand as well as a few vehicles toys and explore how they move in the sand. The materials will be shown to then where they can be found and how to put them away.
To view the Lesson Plan, click HERE!
If you have any questions or concerns, you can email me at Mrs. marthacolon@olqmnyc.org or email Mrs. Zogka at MrsZogka@olqmnyc.org.
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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