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)

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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:

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