Unit of Study: Colors & Shapes/Farm

Bridges: Shapes

This week at school…

11/18 to 11/22

Upcoming Events:

11/18 PTO Meeting

11/22 Thanksgiving Feast in classroom during snack

11/25 – 11/29 No School for PK (Conferences)

Signing Time

We learned the signs:

MONDAY	TUESDAY	WEDNESDAY
Excited & Sick	Love, I Love You, Vocab Review Song	A & B

THURSDAY	FRIDAY
C & D	E & F

Opening Circle

Greeting: Hello/Greeting Songs

Discussion:

MONDAY	TUESDAY	WEDNESDAY
Letter of the week P (Magic Fingers) Primary Colors. Secondary Colors. What happens when we mix colors?	Letter of the week P (P Books) Introduce farm unit. Old McDonald Had a Garden! Begin a discussion about what types of food grows on a farm? List out the food students can think of. Sing: Old McDonald Had a Garden. Review fruit farms/orchards. Some fruit grows on trees and others grow on bushes. Fruit, normally fleshy, contains a large seed within, such as an avocado or peach seed, or numerous tiny seeds, such as a tomato or an orange. All produce that contains seeds are fruit.	Letter of the week Q (Magic Fingers) Review food that grows on farms. Review what makes fruit a fruit. Discuss vegetable farms. Some vegetables grow above ground and others grow underneath the ground. A vegetable is the plant's stem, root, leaf or flower.

THURSDAY	FRIDAY
Letter of the week Q (Q Books) Begin discussion about the fall harvest. What is harvest? How does harvest affect us and our environment? What happens to the fruits and vegetables that gets harvested from the farms? Make Butter	Thanksgiving Feast! Why do we celebrate Thanksgiving? Briefly describe the history of the first Thanksgiving. Pilgrims traveled across the ocean to the New Land. They did not know how to plant and grow, so the Native Americans helped them learn how to grow food. During the Harvest, they had a big feast with each other as a way to say Thank You for all the help the Native American's gave them.

Number Corner (math)

Module 3 Session 2: Calendar update Shape Sorting (attribute blocks no hexagons, attribute cards: circle, triangle, rectangle, square, red, yellow, blue) ID shape and color, attribute cards placed around circle, students will stand/sit when signal is called.

Module 3 Session 3: Calendar update Standing Shape Sort - 1 attribute block per student, attribute cards: curved sides, straight sides, large, small, rectangle, square, triangle, circle (students stand when their attribute card is described)

Module 3 Session 4: Calendar update. Sides and Corners - each student gets a triangle, square or rectangle. Introduce 3 corners and 4 corners. Make graph accordingly.

Module 3 Session 5: Calendar update Goodbye Shapes- attribute cards: curved sides, straight sides, large, small, rectangle, square, triangle, circle, red, blue, yellow, 3 corners, 4 corners. Pick attribute card, collect that description block and remove until none are left.

Module 4 Session 1: Calendar update with the hidden marker Chirpy's Shape Match problem

Second Step (Emily & Emilio)

Week 9: Identifying Anger

Concepts:

·         Everyone feels angry sometimes.

·         It is not okay to be mean or hut others when you feel angry.

Snack

Practice serving and pouring, cleaning up after ourselves.

Centers

Science	Blocks	Dramatic Play	Theme Park
magnify glasses, goggles, rocks, scales, unifix cubes, measuring and weighing veggies - potatoes, carrots, squash	wooden blocks, large plastic blocks, cardboard bricks, Can you build a tall barn? add animals, fruit counters, green/brown fabric, string & scissors	Dress-up, Baby dolls, Cooking for the family	Farm-Milking Cow, Riding Pony, Farm Animal Puppets/Eggs
Writing	Library	Art	Literacy/Math
Students will independently select writing mediums to write, ink stamp, or dough stamp words Words: Farm Words Tracing straight, slanted, and zig zag lines (from farmer to pig) Writing thank you cards	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 Step 1: Draw what you would like to paint - provide various fall items (apples, pumpkins, pine cones, leaves, acorns) with colored pencils, crayons, and markers. Once picture is drawn, students will take it to art easel to re-create drawing using paint	How wide/tall is the farm animal? Measuring using cubes and writing numbers. Number Tracing Boards Dry Erase Markers
Easel	Sensory Table	Rug/Music & Movement
Step 2: Paint what you draw. After students draw at art they will bring their drawing to easel to re-create drawing using water colors	Corn Meal w/ farm animals/barn	Down on the Farm (barns & farm animals)

Rotating Small Groups/Problems & Investigations

Work Places: Playdough Numerals Pattern Block Pictures Which Shape will win? Shapes Number Picture Pairs Giant Triangles

Hungry Caterpillars Feely Shapes Graph Giant Triangles

Hungry Caterpillars Feely Shapes Graph Giant Triangles

Hungry Caterpillars Feely Shapes Graph Giant Triangles

Work Places: Playdough Numerals Pattern Block Pictures Which Shape will win? Shapes Number Picture Pairs Giant Triangles

Interactive Read Aloud

MONDAY	TUESDAY	WEDNESDAY
Book: Mix it Up Standard: Literacy, Print Concepts, Science Practices Vocab: Questions: Activity: Book: Thank You, Mr. Panda Standard: Literacy, Print Concepts Vocab: Thank you, You're welcome Questions: When should we say thank you? Is it only when someone gives you something? What if someone did something nice to you or for you? Activity: What are Thank You cards? Who should we write thank you cards to?	Book: The FRUITS We Eat Standards: Literacy, Print Concepts, Logic & Reasoning, Counting & Cardinality, Number Operations Vocab: botanists, vegetation, perennials, annual, harvest, climates Questions: What fruits did you recognize from the story? Activity: Sorting and counting fruit counters. Comparing more/less & same/different	Book: The VEGETABLES We Eat Standard: Literacy, Print Concepts, Receptive Language, Expressive Language Vocab: 8 groups of vegetable: leaf, bulb, flower bud, root, tuber, stem, fruit, seed. edible Questions: What vegetables did you recognize from the story? Activity: Discuss how this book was written by the same author as The FRUITS We Eat. Have fun following directions using positional words/phrases using felt vegetables.

THURSDAY

FRIDAY

Book: Curious George Farm to Table Standards: Literacy, Print Concepts Vocab: abuela, masa/cornmeal, mill, drought, crops Questions: Where does masa/cornmeal come from? Activity: Identify the different parts of the sequence (corn, mill, bags, warehouse, grocery store) Pointing out text vs pictures Sequence or order events using temporal words - first, then, next, last... Book: Please, Mr. Panda Standard: Literacy, Print Concepts Vocab: please Questions: Why didn't Panda give the doughnuts to any of the animals who wanted them? What was Panda waiting for? Begin discussion about manners. Thanksgiving is coming up and we will be having a feast here at school, but you will also be having dinner with your families. It is so important that you use your manners. What words should you use - please, thank you, you're welcome, may I have...

Book: Thanksgiving Treat Standard: Literacy, Print Concepts, Phonological Awareness Vocab: peeling, scraping, shucking, veranda, splinters Questions: Why is the little boy feeling sad? What did the little boy end up doing with Grandpa? Have you ever felt the way the little was feeling? Activity: Review sign language for family members - grandma, grandpa, mother, father, brother, sister, aunts, uncles, cousins. Have fun making silly words that rhyme with Thanksgiving. (banksgiving, fanksgiving, hanksgiving, lanksgiving, etc.) Book: Thank You, Thanksgiving Standard: Literacy, Print Concepts Vocab: thank you, general store Questions: What were some of the things the little girl was thankful for? Activity: Reading words from story based on pictures. Who could we say thank you to? - MOM, DAD, Lasky (reading familiar words) Review manners.

Shared Reading

MONDAY	TUESDAY	WEDNESDAY
My Big World - Good Thanksgiving Manners	Day 1: Who was in the barn? Who was in the barn, Sleeping in the hay? I knew it was a ___ When I heard it say ___. 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: Picture Word Match	Day 2: Who was in the barn? 1. Second Read. 2. Reading Focus: Rhyming

THURSDAY	FRIDAY
Day 3: Who was in the barn 1. Third Read 2. Reading Focus: Circling Words	Day 4: Who was in the barn 1. Fourth Read: Orchestration 2: Reading Focus: Choral reading - students will lead in reading