Pre-K 4    Week of April 4, 2022

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Monday, 4/4

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Friday 4/8 Spring Class Party

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•April 11th-April 24th NO SCHOOL (Spring Break)

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Contact info:

MrTaraza@olqmnyc.org (I usually try to reply within the same day).

 If there are any questions regarding the 3-K/Pre-K for all program that can not be answered by the office or classroom teacher, please feel free to contact the

Help Line at 888-227-8175

Unit Topic:

Water

Essential Question:

What does water do?

Focus Question for The Week:

Where can we find water?

Extension: What can we discover about oceanlife?

 

Foundational Text for The Week:

Counting in the Ocean (See PDF in E-Mail for story and Movement Activity)

Rainbow Fish

Focused Learning Activity for The Week

Retelling a story and Sequencing events

Introduce the rainbow fish storyboard in the library for children to retell and orally dictate the events in the story. Encourage children to sequence in order. What happened first? What happened next? What happened in the end? Talk about feelings and what did rainbow fish do to overcome his feelings and fix the problem.

Pre-K Common Core Learning Standard(s) Addressed

PK.ELAL.15

Uses a combination of drawing, dictating, oral expression, and/or emergent writing to narrate an event or events in a sequence.

Drops on a Penny

Provide a penny, a pipette, and a container of water. Invite children to see how many drops of water they can fit on the penny. Encourage children to count each drop of water as it drops onto the penny and occasionally note how many drops there altogether.

Pre-K Common Core Learning Standard(s) Addressed

PK.MATH.3A

When counting objects, says the number names in the standard order, pairing each object with one and only one number name and each number name with one and only one object. (1:1 correspondence)

Lessons and Activities for the Month

Blocks

Add pictures of ice castles to the Blocks/Construction Center. Invite children to refer to these pictures and build their own ice castles. Consider covering the blocks with white paper and adding clear plastic cups for children to use in their structures.

Dramatic Play

Laundromat: Use cardboard boxes to create washers and dryers; add clothing, empty bottles of detergent and pretend money for children to use at the laundromat. Invite them to do the laundry and talk about the role water plays in cleaning clothes. If desired, children can design and set up the laundromat scene. 

Art

Add spray bottle to the art area and introduce what happens to the paint when weIntroduce watercolor paint and brushes into the art area. Provide cups of water and paper for children to explore water colors and color mixing techniques.

Science

Land or Water: Provide an assortment of small animal and sea creature toys (e.g., dog, cow, fish, shark, etc.). Invite children to sort the toys into two categories: those that live in water and those that live on land. Use a blue piece of paper as a base for the water animals and green for land.

Math

Fish for a Number: Provide a pretend fishing pole with a magnetic end, and a set of dot cards. Invite children to draw a card from the set of cards, determine the number of dots on the card and then fish for the number.

Library

Students are invited to read books about our theme, Water.

Writing

Students will be asked the question "What happens when we put things in water?" and be asked to write or draw a picture of their answers.

Sensory

The children are invited to explore alphabet and numbers in the water. Introduce orbees into the sensory table.

For more information on the Lesson Plan, click HERE!

To view this weeks' foundational text, please click HERE!

 

If you have any questions or concerns, you can email me at MrTaraza@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