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