These are the time slots available for phone conferences.  Please take a look and add a comment indicating which slot you would like for our weekly phone conversations. Thank you so much! Weekly Phone Conference
Day of Week	Time
Tuesday	9:00
	10:30
Wednesday	9:00
	10:00
	11:00
Thursday
	1:30
	2:00
Friday	1:00
	1:30
	2:00
	3:00

Hi PK Families,

Starting Tuesday March 31, 2020, I will be making weekly check-in phone calls with each of you.  To try and help with scheduling/routines, I thought we could use the same time block each week.  Please look at the times below and add a comment to indicate the day and time you would like to reserve.  If these times do not work for you, please email me and we can arrange something that works with your schedule.  Thank you so much!  

Mrs. Lasky

 

Weekly Phone Conference
Day of Week	Time	Name
Tuesday	9:00
	9:30
	10:00
	10:30
	11:00
	11:30
Wednesday	9:00
	9:30
	10:00
	10:30
	11:00
	11:30
Thursday	1:00
	1:30
	2:00
	2:30
	3:00
Friday	1:00
	1:30
	2:00
	2:30
	3:00

Unit of Study: Author Study – Dr. Seuss

Bridges: Teddy Bears

This week at school…

3/9/2020

Upcoming Events:

3/11 Wear your silly socks

3/19 & 3/20 Mrs. Judy from Mansfield Library

Signing Time

We learned the signs:

MONDAY	TUESDAY	WEDNESDAY
Beaver & Wolf	Eagle & Fox	Vocab Review Song & Bug

THURSDAY	FRIDAY
When the Bugs Come Marching in & Ant	Fly & Spider fly spider

Opening Circle

Greeting: Hello/Greeting Songs

Discussion:

MONDAY	TUESDAY	WEDNESDAY
Sound Matching - same different	Shape Sort w/ geoblocks	Wear silly socks! Mrs. Lasky's class in Socks! Model drawing Mat Man wearing silly socks. Who has the same, who has different socks? How many socks? Pairs? Singles?

THURSDAY	FRIDAY
Science Exploration - will an egg float? Will an egg sink? Think-Pair-Share.	Reviewing edges and corners on various shapes

Number Corner (math)

Module 2 Session 5: Calendar update. Today is, Yesterday was. A Count of Twenty - hold various positions for a count of 20. How did it feel? Could you go longer?

Module 3 Session 1: Calendar update. Today is, Yesterday was. Moving to the pattern (heart with hands & teddy bear sign) Same kind of pattern using miniboards

Module 3 Session 2: Calendar update. Today is, Yesterday was. Teddy Bears in the box - (3 red and 2 blue teddy bears in the box, attribute cards: colors, it's made of plastic, it's made of wood, it's made of metal, it's made of plastic, it's made of fabric, you can play with it, hard, few, machine made) Compare amounts on a tens frame, label with sticky and post on board

Module 3 Session 3: Calendar update. Today is, Yesterday was. Special Delivery - 3 red/3 blue, compare amounts on a tens frame, label with sticky and post on board

Module 3 Session 4: Calendar update. Today is, Yesterday was. More Teddy Bears - 2 red/5 blue, compare amounts on a tens frame, label with sticky and post on board

Second Step (Emily & Emilio)

Week: 19 Fair ways to play

Concepts:

·         Playing together, trading, and taking turns are fair and fun ways to play

Snack

Practice serving and pouring, cleaning up after ourselves.

Centers

Science	Blocks	Dramatic Play	Theme Park
Objective: Build your own truffula tree and see how tall you can build it. Using Linking Cubes Geo Blocks & Colored Pom Poms Guiding Questions: How can you make your truffula tree even taller? Why are trees important to people? What can you do to help take care of trees?	The Cat in the Hat - Stack the Cat's Hat (small & large red cups with appropriate sized paper squares)	Dress-up, Baby dolls, Cooking for the family	Post Office
Writing	Library	Art	Literacy/Math
Word Wall: cat, hat, hop, pop, fox, box say it, clap it, spell it, rhyme it, fix it names Writing letters to friends and family to be mailed at Post Office	Students will independently select literacy strategies that support their learning during independent reading times- arrival, centers & independent reading/conferring time	"The Cat Gets a New Hat" - Cutting and decorating The Cat in the Hat's hat with collage materials: tissue squares, dot markers, gems	Hop on Pop - tray, 2 mugs, pup, picture of positions and pup, words with positions (pup on cup)
Easel	Sensory Table	Rug/Music & Movement
1 Fish, 2 Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish - cupcake liner art (make fish out of cupcake liners on dark blue paper)	Mr. Brown Can Moo! Can You? - Sound Match (various things in eggs that make different sounds when shaken: marbles, button, beans, screws, cube, pennies) 2 of each with egg carton for pairs, pictures of each to match	Fox in Socks - matching and counting sock pairs with clothes line and clothes pins

Rotating Small Groups/Problems & Investigations

Counting & Cardinality - Teddy Bear Race Picture - Dice Game (roll the die and name the pictures in that row)

Counting & Cardinality - Teddy Bear Race Feelings Game

Counting & Cardinality - Teddy Bear Race Picture - Dice Game (roll the die and name the pictures in that row)

Feelings Game Picture - Dice Game (roll the die and name the pictures in that row)

Work Places: Reds & Blues Which Teddy Bear will win? Roll & Write Teddy Bear Race

Interactive Read Aloud

MONDAY	TUESDAY	WEDNESDAY
Book: Mr. Brown Can Moo! Can You? Standard: Literacy, Concept of Print, Phonological Awareness Vocab: Questions: Tell of a time when you heard a new or exciting sound. Activity: Have fun identifying different sounds. Listen for same/different sounds.	Book: The Cat in the Hat Standard: Literacy, Concept of Print, Phonological Awareness Vocab: Questions: What did Sally and her brother do that they were not supposed to do? Do you think their mother will find out? What should Sally and her brother have done? Activity: Cat begins with /c/. Hat begin with /h/. What other words begin with these sounds?	Book: Fox in Socks Standard: Literacy, Concept of Print, Phonological Awareness Vocab: Questions: Activity: Have fun rhyming (fox, socks, box, hose, nose, rose, chicks, bricks, tricks)

THURSDAY	FRIDAY
Book: 1 Fish, 2 Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish Standard: Literacy, Concept of Print, Phonological Awareness, drawing & writing Vocab: Questions: Activity: This story is full of imaginary characters. Draw and write about your own imaginary character.	Book: Hop on Pop Standard: Literacy, Concept of Print, Phonological Awareness, geometry Vocab: Questions: Activity: Hop begins with /h/. Pop begins with /p/. What other words begin with these sounds? Demonstrate and label the positions.

Shared Reading

MONDAY	TUESDAY	WEDNESDAY
Day 1: Dr. Seuss’s Book of Colors 1. Literature Introduction. What do you think it is going to be about? Why do you think I chose this text? 2: First Read. 3: Reading Focus: This is our first book that we are using for shared reading.  We will take the time to reference the pictures with the words.	Day 2: Dr. Seuss’s Book of Colors 1. Second Read. 2. Reading Focus: Picture-Word Match – students will fill in the blanks	Day 3: Dr. Seuss’s Book of Colors 1. Third Read. 2. Reading Focus: Counting how many words are in a line

THURSDAY	FRIDAY
Day 4: Dr. Seuss’s Book of Colors 1. Forth Read. 2. Reading Focus: Choral Reading – because this a book, we will take turns reading different pages