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