Week of April 24, 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 Impact

 

Essential Question: How do my actions impact growth and change? 

 

Month One: Care

 

Weekly Focus: Self

Focused Learning Activity for the week: 

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

Weekly Foundational Text:  Please, Baby Please by Spike Lee and Tonya Lewis Lee: A behind the scenes look at the Chills, Spills, and thrills of bringing up baby.  

Weekly Teacher Reflections:

-This book is about how adults care for a baby or young child. What are some of the things the adults do to care for a baby?

 

-Do your grown-ups ever ask you to do some of the things we saw in the book? Which ones? What are some of other things your grown-ups ask you to do?

The baby looks really mad when the adult says it is time to go home. Sometimes we have different ideas than the people who take care of us. Can you think of a time when someone who was taking care of you wanted you to do something you didn't want to do? How did that make you feel? 

Learning Centers Available for the Themes:

BLOCKS: Children are invited to explored  the block area. Children will be motivated to explore unit blocks, toy people, and large cardboard pieces. Children are encouraged to care of the materials provided.

 

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 model how to take care of the baby dolls and other materials in this area.

 

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 such as sponge with paint, the teacher will show children how to clean it.  

 

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 leaves and how to take care of them in the classroom. 

 

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 and manipulate magnetic trace letters and take care of them. 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 and small toys 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.

Week of April 4, 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-ATL 11 Child shows interest in and curiosity about the world around them. 

Weekly Foundational Text:  Places to Be by Mac Barnett and illustrated by Renata Liwska: We have so many places to be! Places to be loud and lovely and scared and jubilant. With an elegant simplicity, this picture book celebrates all our wide-ranging emotions-and the emotions-and the adventures that await us each day.  

Weekly Teacher Reflections:

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

 

-What are children noticing about how their bodies move? 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 notice the way people move, the way our body move. 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 special when we are dress up with the costumes.

 

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 spraying paint in paper and observer the way the paint move on the paper.  

 

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.