Sunday, March 27, 2022

Week of March 28, 2022

 




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.
  • Early dismissal on Friday (4/1) at 12:00 P.M. / No after school.



Exploration Topic: Our Environment

 

Essential Question: What can we discover about community? 

 

Month Four: Moving

 

Weekly Focus: Investigating How We Move Through the City


Focused Learning Activity for the week: 


GOAL: P-MATH 10. Child explores the positions of objects in space. 



Weekly Foundational Text:  A hop Is Up by Kristy Dempsey: Hop Up! Bend down! Spin around! Jump over!



Weekly Teacher Reflections:


-What are some ways the people and things in this book move?

 

-Let's try some of the moves from the book. Can you hop? Spin around? Leap? Etc.


-What are some other ways can you move your body? Let's give them a try!








Learning Centers Available for the Themes:


BLOCKS: Children are invited to explored  the block area. Children will be motivated to explore unit blocks and toys people and vehicles. Children are encouraged to notice the way people and things move.

 

DRAMATIC PLAY: Children are invited to go and explore the dramatic play center,  and they are encouraged to use the props provided. The teacher will invite children to notice the way our body move in the kitchen.

 

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, such as a cars taped with a chalk , rolling a small ball with paint. 

 

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.

Sunday, March 20, 2022

Week of March 20, 2022

 



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: Investigating How We Move Through the City


Focused Learning Activity for the week: 


GOAL: P-LIT 5. Child asks and answers questions about a book that was read aloud.



Weekly Foundational Text:  Subway by Anastasia Suen: Hop on the subway with a little girl and her mother.



Weekly Teacher Reflections:


-How am I helping the children explore ways to travel through the city?

 

-How am I helping the children explore ways their families move through the city? 


-What materials Can I provide to support this exploration?








Learning Centers Available for the Themes:


BLOCKS: Children are invited to explored  the block area. Children will be motivated to explore unit blocks and toys vehicles such as cars, trucks, constructions vehicles, boats, trains, then children will manipulate and notice the way these vehicles move.

 

DRAMATIC PLAY: Children are invited to go and explore the dramatic play center,  and they are encouraged to use the props provided. The teacher will invite children to manipulate vegetable cans move when they are rolling the cans.

 

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, such as a cars taped with a chalk , rolling a small ball with paint. 

 

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.

Sunday, March 13, 2022

Week of March 13, 2022

 


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: Investigating How Bodies Move


Focused Learning Activity for the week: 


GOAL: P-SE 10. Child Expresses confidence in own skills and positive feelings about self.



Weekly Foundational Text:  Ten Tiny Babies by Karen Katz: One tiny baby starts to run. Along comes another until ten tiny babies are exhausted from the day and fast asleep in their beds.



Weekly Teacher Reflections:


-How am I helping the children notice and explore how their bodies move?

 

-What are the children noticing about their bodies move? What materials can I provide for them to explore that support this exploration?





Learning Centers Available for the Themes:


BLOCKS: Children are invited to explored  the block area. Children will be motivated to notice how people move, children will be using people toy to noticing it 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. The teacher will invite children to explore the way babies could move and notice how our hands move when we dress up them.   

 

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, such as roll a small ball with paint. 

 

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.

Sunday, March 6, 2022

Week of March 6, 2022

 


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: Investigating Vehicles


Focused Learning Activity for the week: 


GOAL: P-LIT5 Child asks and answers questions about a book that was read aloud.


Weekly Foundational Text:  Let's Go for a Drive! by Mo Willems: Gerald and Piggie want to go for a drive!.



Weekly Teacher Reflections:


-How am I helping the children notice vehicles in the environment?

 

-What are the children noticing about vehicles in the environment? What materials can I provide for them to explore that support these observations and interests?

 




Learning Centers Available for the Themes:


BLOCKS: Children are invited to explored  the block area. Children will be motivated to notice vehicles around them, in special in this area, and how it helps us to move as well as how vehicles move.

 

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 cars move as well as 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, such as roll a small ball with paint. 

 

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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