Week in Review 12/16/19

Gingerbread - Wet and Dry

This week we had fun exploring wet and dry!  We discussed how things change when they get wet.  We explored sand dry and then wet.  The students described how each felt.  (Science Practices: Seeks answers and discusses evidence related to their own questions and observations.)

It was so much fun making gingerbread!  We talked all about how the mix changed after adding water and butter.  It became hard to stir and very sticky!

 

We then explored cornstarch and water!  Morning class will participate in this activity after the break.  Blame it on the weather :)

During centers we explored sand using various sized scoops (Measurement: comparing 2 objects by size using words for different measurement attributes)

We decorated gingerbread people using puffy paint (Appreciation and Engagements in the arts: Purposefully creates artwork and communication about art)

We had fun trying to build gingerbread hoses using various items like cups, paper, pipe cleaners, popsicle sticks, and slide/connect blocks (Cognitive Flexibility: Tries a new strategy when first strategy is not successful at solving a problem)

Unit of Study: Gingerbread

Bridges: Snowflakes & Winter Countdown

This week at school…

12/16 to 12/19

*Do to all the weather disruptions, I stretched farm through last week and changed to Gingerbread for this week.  We will conclude Gingerbread when we return from winter vacation and do 5 Food Groups the following week. 

Upcoming Events:

12/20 to 1/1 No PK – Winter Break

1/16 & 1/17 – Ms. Judy from Mansfield Library

1/20 – No PK

Signing Time

We learned the signs:

MONDAY	TUESDAY	WEDNESDAY
R & S

THURSDAY	FRIDAY
T & U

Opening Circle

Greeting: Hello/Greeting Songs

Discussion:

MONDAY	TUESDAY	WEDNESDAY
Letter of the week T (Magic Fingers) Introduce Gingerbread. What is gingerbread? Discuss the different types of gingerbread-cookies versus cakes. Science-Wet/Dry. Discuss how things change when they get wet. Sand and Water Experiment-What do you predict will happen when we mix sand and water? What happens if we put a little bit of water? What happens if we put a lot of water?		PM Only Science-Wet/Dry. Discuss how things change when they get wet. Gingerbread mix, butter and Water Experiment-What do you predict will happen when we mix gingerbread mix, butter and water?

THURSDAY

FRIDAY

Letter of the week T (T Books) AM Science-Wet/Dry. Discuss how things change when they get wet. Gingerbread mix, butter and Water Experiment-What do you predict will happen when we mix gingerbread mix, butter and water? PM Science-Wet/Dry. Discuss how things change when they get wet. Cornstarch and Water Experiment-What do you predict will happen when we mix Cornstarch and water? List predictions. Were your predictions correct? Make a web of cookie shop ideas for theme park.

Number Corner (math)

Module 1 Session 1: Calendar update Mystery Box: 6 hexagons in a box (3 large/3 thin hexagons, attribute cards: more than one, it's made of plastic, red, blue, yellow, more than 3 corners, more than 4 sides

Module 1 Session 2: Calendar update. Read, Little Mouse's Snowflake Question (use large blue hexagon attribute block throughout). Count sides and corners. Revisit how snowflakes are made using temporal words first, second.

Second Step (Emily & Emilio)

Week: 11 Accidents

Concepts:

·         An accident is when you do something you didn’t mean to do.

·         When you do something by accident, its’s important to say it was an accident so others don’t think you did it on purpose.

Snack

Practice serving and pouring, cleaning up after ourselves.

Thursday – We decorated and at our gingerbread cookies! YUMMY!

Centers

Science	Blocks	Dramatic Play	Theme Park
magnify glasses, goggles, STEM: Build a house - Slot & Build Shapes, small/large red cups, popsicle sticks, paper, pipe cleaners, toothpicks	wooden blocks, large plastic blocks, cardboard bricks	Dress-up, Baby dolls, Cooking for the family	Grocery Store - sorting fruits and vegetables, acting out various jobs: clerk, shopper, cashier, counting money
Writing	Library	Art	Literacy/Math
Students will independently select writing mediums to write, ink stamp, or dough stamp words Words: Tracing Gingerbread cookies to houses	Students will independently select literacy strategies that support their learning during independent reading times- arrival, centers & independent reading/conferring time	Students will independently select own art mediums for their creations Decorating Foam Gingerbreads with colored puffy paint (50/50 glue & shaving cream)	Gingerbread Tracers Gingerbread ABCs Playdough Print Concepts - I Went Walking
Easel	Sensory Table	Rug/Music & Movement
Brown gingerbread cutouts, decorate with various colors of paint and small brushes	Sand w/ mills and containers Thursday: Bins cornstarch and water	Stepping Stones

Rotating Small Groups/Problems & Investigations

Self Portraits Pattern Block Snowflakes

PM Work Places Gingerbread Houses - Centers

Gingerbread Houses Pattern Block Snowflakes

Interactive Read Aloud

MONDAY	TUESDAY	WEDNESDAY
Book: The Gingerbread Baby Standard: COG 8, COG 10, COG 13 Vocab: pranced, worn-looking, smug, meddling, brash, Questions: Prediction-What do you think Matti made while the gingerbread baby was running around town? Prediction-Do you think the fox is going to catch the gingerbread baby? Activity: Reading words from the story-cat, dog, pig, fox, milk, cheese		Clifford's My Big World

THURSDAY	FRIDAY
Book: The Gingerbread Cowboy Standard: COG 8, COG 10, COG 11 Vocab: rancher, fringe, roadrunner, corral fence, javelinas, cactus pads, grazing, canyon, lariat Activity: Concepts of print. How was The Gingerbread Cowboy the same as The Gingerbread Boy? How was The Gingerbread Cowboy different than The Gingerbread Boy?

Shared Reading

MONDAY	TUESDAY	WEDNESDAY
Day 1: 5 Yummy Gingerbread Five yummy gingerbread, Sitting on a plate. The first one said, "Boy we smell so great!" The second one said, "There's a chill in the air. The third one said, "I see hungry children everywhere!" The fourth one said, "I think we better run!" The fifth one said, "Here the children come!" Then the children each grabbed one and with a MUNCH, CRUNCH, MUNCH The five yummy gingerbreads All turned into lunch! 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: Number ID.

THURSDAY	FRIDAY
Day 2: 5 Yummy Gingerbread 1. Second Read. 2. Reading Focus: Punctuation " " ! . Reading the text with finger.

Unit of Study: Farm/5 Food Groups

Bridges: Shapes/Snowflakes & Winter Countdown

This week at school…

12/9 to 12/13

Upcoming Events:

12/12 &12/13 Visit from Ms. Judy

12/13 PJ Day to support CCMC

12/20 to 1/1 No PK – Winter Break

Signing Time

We learned the signs:

MONDAY	TUESDAY	WEDNESDAY
Vocab Review Song	L & M	N & O

THURSDAY	FRIDAY
Vocab Review	P & Q

Opening Circle

Greeting: Hello/Greeting Songs

Discussion:

MONDAY	TUESDAY	WEDNESDAY
PM Only One of These Things is not like the other - Farm Items	Letter of the week S (Magic Fingers) What animals live on a farm? Begin a discussion about animals on the farm that provide us something. Cows - milk, Chickens - eggs, Sheep - wool.	Letter of the week S (S Books) Conclude Farm. Review all that we learned. Discuss the importance of farms and farmers and the impacts they have.

THURSDAY	FRIDAY
Letter of the week T (Magic Fingers) Introduce new unit of Food - make connection of food coming from farms. What are the 5 food groups? Review sorting by putting the same things together, but what about categorizing? Sort Healthy vs Not Healthy foods into groups.	Letter of the week T (T Books) Review Vegetables and Fruit Vegetables - Vitamin C helps our cuts heal and helps keep us from getting sick. Read Discover My Plate Vegetables. Fruit - Vitamin A helps us to see and keeps our skin healthy. Read Discover My Plate Fruits. Counting fruits and vegetables up to 10 matching written numerals.

Number Corner (math)

Module 4 Session 4: Calendar update. Roll & Flip the Number Cards - (numbers on bottom, shapes on top, dots/numbers die) Read numbers one by one then turn them face down, roll die and flip appropriate number

Module 4 Session 5: Calendar update Roll & Flip the Shapes Cards - (numbers on top, shapes on bottom) Review numbers and shapes. Turn shapes face down. Roll die and flip appropriate shape

Module 1 Session 1: Calendar update Mystery Box: 6 hexagons in a box (3 large/3 thin hexagons, attribute cards: more than one, it's made of plastic, red, blue, yellow, more than 3 corners, more than 4 sides

Module 1 Session 2: Calendar update. Read, Little Mouse's Snowflake Question (use large blue hexagon attribute block throughout). Count sides and corners. Revisit how snowflakes are made using temporal words first, second. Snowflake minibooks

Second Step (Emily & Emilio)

Week: 10 Same or Different Feelings

Concepts:

·         People can have different feelings about the same thing

·         It is okay for people to have different feelings about the same thing

Snack

Practice serving and pouring, cleaning up after ourselves.

Centers

Science	Blocks	Dramatic Play	Theme Park
magnify glasses, goggles, mirrors, playdough (body colors), face mats, fall cutters/bowls	wooden blocks, large plastic blocks, cardboard bricks, farm animals	Dress-up, Baby dolls, Cooking for the family	Grocery Store - sorting fruits and vegetables, acting out various jobs: clerk, shopper, cashier, counting money
Writing	Library	Art	Literacy/Math
Students will independently select writing mediums to write, ink stamp, or dough stamp words Words: Places on the farm Farm Maps	Students will independently select literacy strategies that support their learning during independent reading times- arrival, centers & independent reading/conferring time	Students will independently select own art mediums for their creations Animal Tracks / Trace & Cut various animals	How many animals? Count and clip the correct number.
Easel	Sensory Table	Rug/Music & Movement
Drawing a Farm and Making Tractor Tracks	Washing Dishes	Mayflower Boat

Switching Centers Thursday:

Science	Blocks	Dramatic Play	Theme Park
magnify glasses, goggles, mirrors, What is magnetic?	wooden blocks, large plastic blocks, cardboard bricks, various grocery store boxes - building using positional words	Dress-up, Baby dolls, Cooking for the family	Grocery Store - sorting fruits and vegetables, acting out various jobs: clerk, shopper, cashier, counting money
Writing	Library	Art	Literacy/Math
Students will independently select writing mediums to write, ink stamp, or dough stamp words Words: Various food words and grocery flyers Making shopping lists	Students will independently select literacy strategies that support their learning during independent reading times- arrival, centers & independent reading/conferring time	Students will independently select own art mediums for their creations Surprise!	Count and Learn Cookie Jar - counting/matching numerals 1-10 Writing numerals 0-10 with dry erase Candy Jar Counting Box
Easel	Sensory Table	Rug/Music & Movement
Dot Markers	Water Mills, various sized containers to fill/empty, which holds more/less	Mr. Potato Head

Rotating Small Groups/Problems & Investigations

Work Places: Pattern Block Pictures Which Shape will win? Shapes Number Picture Pairs Hungry Caterpillars Shape Hunters

-My favorite part of PK is... -Shape Hunters

-Triangle Count & Combine (Geometry - constructs and builds simple shapes using 2 shapes) -My favorite part of PK is...

-Work Places: Pattern Block Pictures Which Shape will win? Shapes Number Picture Pairs Hungry Caterpillars -Pattern Block Snowflakes

-Gingerbread Houses -Pattern Block Snowflakes

Interactive Read Aloud

MONDAY	TUESDAY	WEDNESDAY
Student Favorites	Book: Baa Baa Black Sheep (audio book) Standard: Literacy, Print Concepts, Phonological Awareness Vocab: master, dame, lane, wool, slop, bale Questions: Why did the animals get mad at Baa Baa? Should they get mad? Why? What did Baa Baa do for her friends? Notice how she did something kind despite her friends getting mad at her. Activity: Beginning sound practice - /B/ baa baa - what else begins with B?	Book: Big Red Barn Standard: Literacy, Print Concepts, Phonological Awareness Vocab: weather vane, hoe, clutch, lowed, bray Questions: Can you remember some of the animals that were mentioned in this story? Can you explain what the animals do on a farm? If you went to a farm/barn what do you think you would see there? Activity: Practice initial sounds: Horse, Hay, Sheep, Donkey, Geese, Goats, Scarecrow, Mouse, Corn, Rooster, Pigeon, Hen, Egg, Cow, Cat, Dog, Barn, Pig

THURSDAY

FRIDAY

Book: The Very Hungry Caterpillar Standard: Literacy, Print Concepts, Logic and Reasoning, Counting and Cardinality, Number Operations Vocab: Identifying each story piece, number words Activity: Sorting healthy vs not healthy foods from the story

Book: Little Mouse, Big Hungry Bear and the Red Ripe Strawberry (Big Book) Standard: Literacy, Print Concepts, Emotional Expression, Scientific Practices Vocab: disguised Questions: How is the mouse feeling? P. 4 How can you tell? Why is he feeling that way? Who was telling the story? Was there really a big hungry bear? Why or why not? What food group would strawberries belong to? Activity: What will happen if we put celery into a jar with colored water? (predict and describe)

Shared Reading

MONDAY	TUESDAY	WEDNESDAY
Who was in the Barn, sleeping in the hay Choral reading	Day 4: I Went Walking 1. Fourth Read: Orchestration 2: Reading Focus: Choral reading - 5/6 students will lead in reading	My Big World Season to Be Thankful

THURSDAY	FRIDAY
Day 1: Who Took the Cookie From the Cookie Jar? 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: Practice Repetitive Text	Day 2: Who Took the Cookie From the Cookie Jar? 1. Second Read. 2. Reading Focus: Reading names and classmates names by sounding out letters and familiarity