Unit of Study: 5 Food Groups

Bridges: Snowflakes & Winter Countdown

This week at school…

1/6/2020

Upcoming Events:

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

1/20 – No PK

Signing Time

We learned the signs:

MONDAY	TUESDAY	WEDNESDAY
X & Y	Z & Vocab Review	Colors & Red

THURSDAY	FRIDAY
Orange & Yellow	Green & Blue

Opening Circle

Greeting: Hello/Greeting Songs

Discussion:

MONDAY	TUESDAY	WEDNESDAY
Letter of the week V (Magic Fingers) Review gingerbread unit. 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. (Logic & Reasoning)	Letter of the week V (V 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.	Letter of the week W (Magic Fingers) Dairy - Calcium, helps keep teeth and bones healthy. Read Discover My Plate Dairy. Ordering grocery boxes by size - big, medium, small, smaller (Logic & Reasoning)

THURSDAY	FRIDAY
Letter of the week W (W Books) Protein - meats and beans-help builds strong muscles. Read Discover My Plate Protein Foods. Practice (receptively) positional words in, out, on, off, over, under, around, between, in front, behind, next to	Grain - Helps give our body energy. Read Discover My Plate Grains. Practice (expressively) positional words in, out, on, off, over, under, around, between, in front, behind, next to

Number Corner (math)

Module 2 Session 1: Calendar update. Dot pattern cards 1-6 (finger patterns for each

Module 1 Session 5: Calendar update. Children arrange daytime/nighttime snowflakes (aabb).

Module 2 Session 2: Calendar update. Post calendar markers. Dot Pattern Snapshots.

Module 2 Session 3: Calendar update. Chirpy at the blue door (7)

Module 2 Session 4: Calendar update. Hop and Stop with Chirpy

Second Step (Emily & Emilio)

Week: 12

Concepts:

·         When you feel empathy for someone, you can show them you care.

·         You can show you care by saying something kind or doing something helpful.

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, 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	Cookie Shop/Bakery
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	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 Snowflake Calendar Counters (Thursday-Friday) Snowflake Sequence Cards	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 & Various Puzzles

Rotating Small Groups/Problems & Investigations

Counting/Cardinality - Which Numeral Will Win? Science Practices - Preventing Gingerbread from getting wet

Counting/Cardinality - Which Numeral Will Win? Fill the Fir Tree

Counting/Cardinality - Which Numeral Will Win? Science Practices - Preventing Gingerbread from getting wet

Science Practices - Preventing Gingerbread from getting wet Fill the Fir Tree

Whole Group: Counting/Cardinality - Winter Landscape Storyboard

Interactive Read Aloud

MONDAY	TUESDAY	WEDNESDAY
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: Goldilocks and the 3 Bears (1st Read)	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)	Book: It Looks Like Spilt Milk (big book) Standard: Literacy, Print Concepts Vocab: Identifying each story piece Questions: What food group would milk belong to? Why do you think the clouds change shape the way they do? Activity: Concepts of print-holding book upright, turning one page at a time, from left to right. Retell story using story props Book: Goldilocks and the 3 Bears (2nd Read)

THURSDAY

FRIDAY

Book: Green Eggs & Ham Standard: Literacy, Print Concepts, Phonological Awareness Vocab: Identifying each story piece. Questions: What food group would eggs and ham belong to? Why do you think he didn't want to try the Green Eggs and Ham? Has there been a time where you were afraid of trying something because of the way it looked? Activity: Identify rhyming words using visuals from story; create new rhyming words

Book: The Doorbell Rang (big book) Standard: Literacy, Print Concepts, Emotional Expression, Counting and Cardinality Vocab: Doorbell, Share, Number words Questions: How do you think the children were feeling when they had to keep sharing their cookies? How do you think the children were feeling when grandma came with more cookies? Activity: Counting Cookies

Shared Reading

MONDAY	TUESDAY	WEDNESDAY
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	Day 3: Who Took the Cookie From the Cookie Jar? 1. Third Read 2. Reading Focus: Return Sweep/Punctuation

THURSDAY	FRIDAY
Day 4: Who Took the Cookie From the Cookie Jar? 1. Fourth Read: Orchestration 2: Reading Focus: Choral reading - students will lead in reading	Clifford's My Big World - Frozen Castles