Pre-K 4    Week of May 30, 2022

Please Read All The Reminders

Tuesday, 5/31

 •Please remember to send sleeping mats to school!!!

Thursday, June 9th, Children come in at 9:15 AM Ceremony Begins at 10 AM- End of Year "Moving Up Ceremony" in the gymnasium.

(Two (2) Adults Permitted per Child)

Friday, June 17th, 9:00am- Father's Day "Donuts with Dad" Celebration in the gymnasium.

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If you or your child is experiencing fever, fatigue, congestion, headache, vomiting, or any other covid-like symptoms the night before school, please remain home and obtain a negative result before coming to the school building. If you or your child tests positive and were present any day of the school week, please notify the teacher. Remote work is always available for students at any time.

As always, please make sure to read the OLQM school blog for additional updates and information located HERE!

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:

Babies

Essential Question:

What are babies?

Focus Question for The Week:

What can we learn about animal babies? *Note that children will explore this question for two weeks.

Foundational Text for The Week:

Follow Me! Animal Parents and Babies by Shira Evans

Level 1: Recall

What are some of the animals in this book? What are some of the things the animal parents in this book teach their babies?

Level 2: Skill/Concept

Animal babies learn from their parents. Who do you learn from? What are some of the ways the animal parents in this book carry their babies? Why do animal babies need to be carried?

Level 3: Strategic Thinking

What are some of the ways the animal parents in this book keep them safe? What are some ways grown-ups keep you safe? What are some of the ways the animals in this book change as they grow up? What are some of the ways you are changing?

Level 4: Extended Thinking

How do people learn about animals?

What are some ways the animals in this book are similar to you? What are some ways they are different?

Review

Ask children to share events that happened in the story that stook out to them most. Find out what they enjoyed or find interesting? Record children's anwsers and read back the findings about the story.

Focused Learning Activity for The Week

Animal Babies

Invite children to use recycled materials to create the animal babies they are studying. Supply pictures of these animals for them to reference as they create. Use the names of the animal babies frequently throughout this activity. Children can also use recycled materials to create objects related to their animal babies such as food, homes, etc. Ask children to tell you about their animal and add this as dictation to their project or invite them to add their own writing.

Pre-K Common Core Learning Standard(s) Addressed

PK.SCI.6

Develops a model to describe that some young plants and animals are similar to, but not exactly like, their parents.

 

Lessons and Activities for the Month

Blocks

Build Animals: Invite children to use blocks to create the animal babies and habitats that they are investigating. Supply pictures of these animals and their habitats for the children to reference as they create. Use the accurate baby and adult animal names frequently with the children as you interact with them.

Dramatic Play

Baby Nursery: Share with the children that you are going to create a place to care for babies. Sometimes a place to care for babies is called a nursery. Ask the children what they know about babies and what you will need to take care of babies. Chart children’s responses, then follow up on their ideas by adding supplies as possible and assisting children in creating other items as necessary.

Art

Baby Powder Paint: Add baby powder to paint. Encourage children to notice the smell as they use the paint. Talk with children about why people might use baby powder with babies.

Science

Life Cycle: Provide pictures that model an animal life cycle. Invite children to sequence the pictures. This can also be done with pictures of humans. For example, supply a picture of an infant, toddler, child, teen, adult and elderly adult.

√ Opportunity for Assessment: What can the child share about animal life cycles? Can they put the pictures in the correct order.

Math

Animal Count: Supply an assortment of baby animals. Invite children to count them and tell you how many there are. As children are successful, rearrange the animals in different arrays and try with various numbers.

Library

Students are invited to read fiction and non-fiction books about our theme, Babies.

Writing

Animal Baby Names: Supply cards with pictures of animal babies as well as their names. Place them in a basket for children to reference as they write and draw in this center. Encourage children to notice and make the sound of the first letter of the animal names, as they are ready.

Sensory

Baby Bath: Add child-safe soap, baby dolls, and washcloths to water in the sensory table. Invite children to give the babies a bath and consider why babies need help to wash or take a bath. Model using vocabulary words such as baby, infant, newborn, gentle, and tiny as you interact with the children in this activity

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

           Pre-K 4    Week of May 23, 2022

Please Read All The Reminders

Monday, 5/23

 •Please remember to send sleeping mats to school!!!

Thursday, 5/26

 •NO AFTER SCHOOL

Friday, 5/27

 •SCHOOL CLOSED (ALL GRADES ALL CLASES)

Monday, 5/30

•SCHOOL CLOSED (MEMORIAL DAY)

Thursday, June 9th, 9:00am- End of Year "Moving Up Ceremony" in the gymnasium.

(Four (4) Adults Permitted per Child)

Wednesday, June 15th, 9:00am- Father's Day "Donuts with Dad" Celebration in the gymnasium.

(One (1) Adult Permitted per Child)

If you or your child is experiencing fever, fatigue, congestion, headache, vomiting, or any other covid-like symptoms the night before school, please remain home and obtain a negative result before coming to the school building. If you or your child tests positive and were present any day of the school week, please notify the teacher. Remote work is always available for students at any time.

As always, please make sure to read the OLQM school blog for additional updates and information located HERE!

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:

Babies

Essential Question:

What are babies?

Focus Question for The Week:

What do human babies need?

Foundational Text for The Week:

Babies Don't Walk, They Ride! by Kathy Henderson

Level 1: Recall

What are some of the ways babies ride? Where did the babies in this book go?

Level 2: Skill/Concept

What does glide mean? How can babies glide? Wham!

Level 3: Strategic Thinking

Why don’t babies walk or run? How do buggies, strollers, backpacks, slings, car seats, help grown-ups care for babies?

Level 4: Extended Thinking

The book says that sometimes babies smile. What might make babies smile? What makes you smile? The book says that sometimes babies scowl and howl. What do scowls and howls look like? What do they sound like? What are some things that make you scowl and howl?

Review

Ask children to share events that happened in the story that stook out to them most. Find out what they enjoyed or find interesting? Record children's anwsers and read back the findings about the story.

Focused Learning Activity for The Week

Baby Portraits

 

If possible, have children bring in a picture from when they were babies. Invite them to look at the pictures and draw or paint a picture of themselves as a baby. As children observe and consider their pictures, engage them in discussion about the details they notice in the pictures. What has changed about the way they look now compared to when they were babies? Why? Ask children whose families do not provide pictures to consider what they think they looked like when they were babies and create a portrait accordingly. What do they think their hair looked like? Their eyes? Did they have chubby cheeks? etc. Children who are ready can add words to their portraits.

Pre-K Common Core Learning Standard(s) Addressed

PK.SOC.6

Develops an understanding of how people and things change over time and how to relate past events to their present and future activities.

 

Lessons and Activities for the Month

Blocks

Build Animals: Invite children to use blocks to create the animal babies and habitats that they are investigating. Supply pictures of these animals and their habitats for the children to reference as they create. Use the accurate baby and adult animal names frequently with the children as you interact with them.

Dramatic Play

Baby Nursery: Share with the children that you are going to create a place to care for babies. Sometimes a place to care for babies is called a nursery. Ask the children what they know about babies and what you will need to take care of babies. Chart children’s responses, then follow up on their ideas by adding supplies as possible and assisting children in creating other items as necessary.

Art

Baby Powder Paint: Add baby powder to paint. Encourage children to notice the smell as they use the paint. Talk with children about why people might use baby powder with babies.

Science

Life Cycle: Provide pictures that model an animal life cycle. Invite children to sequence the pictures. This can also be done with pictures of humans. For example, supply a picture of an infant, toddler, child, teen, adult and elderly adult.

√ Opportunity for Assessment: What can the child share about animal life cycles? Can they put the pictures in the correct order.

Math

Animal Count: Supply an assortment of baby animals. Invite children to count them and tell you how many there are. As children are successful, rearrange the animals in different arrays and try with various numbers.

Library

Students are invited to read fiction and non-fiction books about our theme, Babies.

Writing

Animal Baby Names: Supply cards with pictures of animal babies as well as their names. Place them in a basket for children to reference as they write and draw in this center. Encourage children to notice and make the sound of the first letter of the animal names, as they are ready.

Sensory

Baby Bath: Add child-safe soap, baby dolls, and washcloths to water in the sensory table. Invite children to give the babies a bath and consider why babies need help to wash or take a bath. Model using vocabulary words such as baby, infant, newborn, gentle, and tiny as you interact with the children in this activity

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

          Pre-K 4    Week of May 16, 2022

Please Read All The Reminders

Monday, 5/16

 •Please remember to send sleeping mats to school!!!

Thursday, June 9th, 9:00am- End of Year "Moving Up Ceremony" in the gymnasium.

(Four (4) Adults Permitted per Child)

Wednesday, June 15th, 9:00am- Father's Day "Donuts with Dad" Celebration in the gymnasium.

(One (1) Adult Permitted per Child)

If you or your child is experiencing fever, fatigue, congestion, headache, vomiting, or any other covid-like symptoms the night before school, please remain home and obtain a negative result before coming to the school building. If you or your child tests positive and were present any day of the school week, please notify the teacher. Remote work is always available for students at any time.

As always, please make sure to read the OLQM school blog for additional updates and information located HERE!

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:

Plants

Essential Question:

How do plants grow and why are they important?

Focus Question for The Week:

Why are plants important?

Foundational Text for The Week:

Rah, Rah, Radishes! A Vegetable Chant by April Pullsey Sayre

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 30 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?

Focused Learning Activity for The Week

Life Cycle of a Plant Sequencing

 

Invite children to further explore a diagram of the Life Cycle of a Plant. As you go through the stages, point to each picture and describe what is going on in each stage. Tell children that plants make their own food through photosynthesis. Plants take Co2 and produce clean air O2 for us to Breathe. 

Provide children with sequencing cards and ask them to draw what a seed/plant needs in order to grow?

 

Extension:

Children will also be encrouraged to place a popcorn kernel into a ziplock bag and provide it with water and sunlight to watch the seed sprout and grow.

Pre-K Common Core Learning Standard(s) Addressed

PK.AL.4

Exhibits curiosity, interest, and willingness to learn new things and have new experiences.

PK.MATH.7 PK.SCI.4 PK.SCI.9

Identifies first and last related to order or position. Observes familiar plants and animals (including humans) and describes what they need to survive. Plans and conducts an investigation to dertermine the effect of sunlight on Earth's surface.

 

Lessons and Activities for the Month

Blocks

Add pictures of plants, gardens, green roofs, farms etc. to the walls of the Blocks/Construction Center for children to reference as they work.

Dramatic Play

Turn Dramatic Play into a flower shop by adding pretend flowers, containers and pictures of flower arrangements as well as a cash register, notepad, writing utensils, etc.to the center. Children can pretend to make, buy, and sell floral arrangements, and explore the idea of buying and selling goods or services. As you play with the children, use and highlight vocabulary words such as bouquet, floral arrangement, florist, and flower.  √ Opportunity for Assessment What does the child understand about the relationship between buying and selling goods?

Art

Provide an assortment of portraits by Kehinde Wiley that include plants in the background. Invite children to observe the art and create their own art in a similar style. They may want to create a similar background and include their own portrait or the portrait of someone else.

Science

Add plants to the science area or throughout the classroom for children to observe and assist in caretaking.

Math

Provide an assortment of seeds and beans as well as trays or containers for sorting. Children can sort by seed color, size, design, or by categories of their choosing. If children need assistance in determining categories for sorting, model sorting for them, sharing your thoughts and sorting criteria aloud as you work.

Library

Students are invited to read fiction and non-fiction books about our theme, Plants.

Writing

Create a plant encyclopedia with pictures and names of an assortment of plants that may be familiar as well as those that may be novel to the students (be mindful of the experiences and cultures of the children in your class as you consider familiarity and novelty). Children can draw and label pictures of plants that are near the places they live or on their way to school, or they can focus on other plants they find interesting.

Sensory

Use green foam pieces to create water lilies, add them to the water in the sensory table along with toy ducks and invite children to play in the pond.

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

         Pre-K 4    Week of May 9, 2022

Please Read All The Reminders

Monday, 5/9

 •Please remember to send sleeping mats to school!!!

Wednesday, 5/11

•No School Pre-K Closed  (Professional Development Day)

Thursday, June 9th, 9:00am- End of Year "Moving Up Ceremony" in the gymnasium.

(Four (4) Adults Permitted per Child)

Wednesday, June 15th, 9:00am- Father's Day "Donuts with Dad" Celebration in the gymnasium.

(One (1) Adult Permitted per Child)

If you or your child is experiencing fever, fatigue, congestion, headache, vomiting, or any other covid-like symptoms the night before school, please remain home and obtain a negative result before coming to the school building. If you or your child tests positive and were present any day of the school week, please notify the teacher. Remote work is always available for students at any time.

As always, please make sure to read the OLQM school blog for additional updates and information located HERE!

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:

Plants

Essential Question:

How do plants grow and why are they important?

Focus Question for The Week:

What are some different kinds of plants?

Foundational Text for The Week:

If You Plant a Seed by Kadir Nelson

Level 1: Recall

What types of seeds did the animals in this book

plant?

What vegetables did the animals grow in the

garden?

Level 2: Skill/Concept

What is a seed of selfishness?

How does a seed of selfishness grow?

What happens when a seed of selfishness grows?

Level 3: Strategic Thinking

What are seeds of kindness? What seeds of kindness

could we plant?

If we grew seeds of kindness, how could we care for

them?

Level 4: Extended Thinking

What is the difference between vegetable seeds and

seeds of selfishness and kindness?

Can you be a gardener? Why or why not?

If you were going to grow a vegetable garden, what

would you need? What would you do? 

Focused Learning Activity for The Week

Parts of a Flower

 

Invite children to further explore the plant you diagrammed in Whole Group. Engage children in discussions about the parts of the plant and why each piece is important. Additionally, children can draw or write about their experiences.

 

Extension:

Children will also be encrouraged to build and design their own plant in the art area and label each part on paper.

Pre-K Common Core Learning Standard(s) Addressed

PK.AC.5

Demonstrates a growing expressive vocabulary

Lessons and Activities for the Month

Blocks

Add pictures of plants, gardens, green roofs, farms etc. to the walls of the Blocks/Construction Center for children to reference as they work.

Dramatic Play

Turn Dramatic Play into a flower shop by adding pretend flowers, containers and pictures of flower arrangements as well as a cash register, notepad, writing utensils, etc.to the center. Children can pretend to make, buy, and sell floral arrangements, and explore the idea of buying and selling goods or services. As you play with the children, use and highlight vocabulary words such as bouquet, floral arrangement, florist, and flower.  √ Opportunity for Assessment What does the child understand about the relationship between buying and selling goods?

Art

Provide an assortment of portraits by Kehinde Wiley that include plants in the background. Invite children to observe the art and create their own art in a similar style. They may want to create a similar background and include their own portrait or the portrait of someone else.

Science

Add plants to the science area or throughout the classroom for children to observe and assist in caretaking.

Math

Provide an assortment of seeds and beans as well as trays or containers for sorting. Children can sort by seed color, size, design, or by categories of their choosing. If children need assistance in determining categories for sorting, model sorting for them, sharing your thoughts and sorting criteria aloud as you work.

Library

Students are invited to read fiction and non-fiction books about our theme, Plants.

Writing

Create a plant encyclopedia with pictures and names of an assortment of plants that may be familiar as well as those that may be novel to the students (be mindful of the experiences and cultures of the children in your class as you consider familiarity and novelty). Children can draw and label pictures of plants that are near the places they live or on their way to school, or they can focus on other plants they find interesting.

Sensory

Use green foam pieces to create water lilies, add them to the water in the sensory table along with toy ducks and invite children to play in the pond.

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