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WEEKLY REMOTE LEARNING PLANNING FORM ROOM # 9 WEEKOF: 12/14-12/18 TEACHER’S NAME: Melissa RiveraDay of the WeekDAILY FOCUS (Focuses on the unit’s student outcomes- Daily Focus Question/ Lesson)Play focus[Planting seeds for play activities (aka learning centers) Insert 4 additional DETAILED center ideas/ activities DAILY- this does not include art, writing, literacy]MondayDate: 12/14Focus Question: Where do animals live? / How do animals and people make homes? Unit Where we live Where do animals live? We will open this discussion a book on Animal Habitats by Dr. Jean FeldmanEpic - Books for Kids () Make sure that students understand how different animals live in different habitats and ask them to guess which habitats common animals live in, such as whales or fish (water/ocean), monkeys or birds (rainforest/trees), etc.Instruction: Explain to students that animals have different homes that they live in. Set out two boxes, one with a photo of an ocean and one with a photo of a rainforest. Then give each student the picture of an animal, all of which live in either the ocean or in the rainforest and ask them to place their animal into the appropriate box. Possible pictures include those of whales, seals, fish, octopus, sharks, monkeys, toucans, tigers, and jaguars. Students should be able to differentiate between animals that make their homes in the water and those that make their homes in trees and on dry landSensory Center: Construction Jobs: Add construction vehicles to the pourable materials (e.g. sand) in the Sensory Table. Invite children to pretend to be construction workers.Dramatic Play: Creating animal homes and what the food they eat. What do animals need to make them happy?Math Center: Fine Motor Land or Water? Provide a piece of blue felt to represent water, a green felt piece to represent land, and an assortment of small animal manipulatives. Invite children to sort the animals based on where they live: on land or in the water. After they have sorted the animals, they can count the number of animals in each area.Science Center: Match the Animal to its Home: Provide pictures of animals as well as their habitats. Invite children to talk about the animals and the habitats then to match the pictures and explain why/ how they made the matches.Writing Center: The children will trace the letters in their name.Art Center: Creating an animal habitat collage: Using pictures of animals the children will place them in either land or water.Block Center: Skyscrapers: Invite children to build skyscraper apartment buildings. Encourage them to build apartment buildings as tall as they can. Provide children with safety reminders for tall structures such as wearing hard hats when structures are taller than they are, posting a “caution” sign in the area when structures become very tall and verbally warning their peers when working on large structures.TuesdayDate: 12/15Focus Question: Where do animals live? / How do animals and people make homes?Unit Where we liveToday, we will discuss bears.We will begin by reading the book Bears by National Geographic Kids. Epic - Books for Kids () We will provide the children facts about bears. What are some types of bears? Where do these bears live? Some bears live on the land. (This book will be used for Wed as well)Computer Center: Shapes AdventuresThe children will be able to identify the shapes and sort them by color. At home you can use any shape computer game available such as Dramatic Play: Creating animal homes and what the food they eat. What do animals need to make them happy?Math Center: Graphing. How many letters in your name? The children will use small squares to write the letters of their name in each square to paste and count how many letters they have. Have the children work in pairs to see whose name has more letters. (social distancing protocol applies) Art Center: Creating a bear cave. Block Center Skyscrapers: Invite children to build skyscraper apartment buildings. Encourage them to build apartment buildings as tall as they can. Provide children with safety reminders for tall structures such as wearing hard hats when structures are taller than they are, posting a “caution” sign in the area when structures become very tall and verbally warning their peers when working on large structures.Writing Center: Have the children read a story and write some words they see in the story. Literacy Center: The children will practice the letter sound and create a craft for the letter. Then they will be encouraged to write one word under the craft. WednesdayDate: 12/16Focus Question: Where do animals live? / How do animals and people make homes? Unit Where we liveBy reading the book Bears by National Geographic Kids. Epic - Books for Kids () We will discuss which of these bears hibernate. What is hibernation? Dramatic Play Center Turn the Dramatic Play area into a barn. Create stalls and add stuffed animals, hay, troughs for feeding and tools for caring for the animals. Block Center: W-TH Teach students about the need of a roof and how to build one using cardboard or blocks. Why is it important we all have a roof over our home?Sensory Center: Add items to a water bin and encourage students to find the items and sort by colorLiteracy Center: Using the letters of the week have the children come up with words that begin with that letter. Draw the letter and picture with word under. (Have printout of pictures if unable to draw the object) This activity will be done weekly with each letter discussed the day priorArt Center: Ocean Animals Collage. Animals that live in the water the children will cut and paste pictures of various animals that live in the ocean. Science Center: Have students explore real building materials used to build homes. Include piece of wood, brick, sheet rock, shingle, etc... Have students explore and talk about why it is important to use in a home and where would they find it in home?Computer Center: Alphabet Balloon pop game ThursdayDate: 12/17Focus Question: Where do animals live? / How do animals and people make homes?Unit Where we liveToday we will discuss animals that live in the water. We will read the book Whoosh! A Watery World of Wonderful Creatures By: Marilyn Baillie Illustrated by Susan Mitchell Epic - Books for Kids () We will chart the children’s responses to what animals live in the water based on the book. Use the book as visual cue for the children who need assistance. Writing Center: Rainbow salt writing. The children will be given a tray with salt and under the salt will be place various pieces of construction paper to make a rainbow. The children can create letters of the alphabet with their finger. (Beware that children do not taste salt and change salt as new child places in centeDramatic Play: Turn the Dramatic Play area into a barn. Create stalls and add stuffed animals, hay, troughs for feeding and tools for caring for the animals. Art Center: Playdough and Sticks: Use Popsicle sticks, toothpicks or another type of small sticks, and playdough for children to build three-dimensional structures. Children can insert the sticks into balls of the playdough to create the structures.Math Center: Counting Pizza Party Science:Literacy Center: Letter hunt. Hide the letter of the week on post it around the room and have children search for the letter. Once they find the letter have them say something that starts with the letter.Block Center: W-TH Teach students about the need of a roof and how to build one using cardboard or blocks. Why is it important we all have a roof over our home?Science Center Tools of the Trade: Provide an assortment of blunt nails and screws of various sizes and textures as well as containers for sorting. Invite children to sort the materials. (PLASTIC Materials)FridayDate: 12/18Focus Question:Where do animals live? / How do animals and people make homes?Unit Where we Live - We will read the book Animal Homes by Shira Evans. We will review what they learned about Animal homes Epic - Books for Kids ()Math Center: Review numbers 1-10 through number Bingo. Library/Literacy Center: We will focus on the sight word the. We will create a puzzle where the children will put it together and sound out the word “It”. Find the word it in a story book. Point and count how many times you find the sight word. (sight words for week 1-4 it, a, the, we)Writing Center: Trace straight linesComputer Center: Block Center: Use a shoebox to create apartment buildings and other type of buildings we see in our neighborhood, like a police station and fire station. What can we find inside an apartment building? (elevator, homes, lobby, etc…)Dramatic Play: Turn the Dramatic Play area into a barn. Create stalls and add stuffed animals, hay, troughs for feeding and tools for caring for the animals. Art Center: Creating a who lives ... book have the children draw and discuss who lives where? Bears live in the … Fish live in the…NYS Pre-K Learning Standards:PK.SEL.1. Regulates responses to needs, feelings and eventsD4.4 Approaches to Learning- Demonstrates his/her ability to express ideas using a variety of methods? V D5.4 Mathematics- counts to answer "how many" questionsIll.B.1 Counts with understandingIll.B.2 Shows beginning understanding of number and quantityU.B.I Shows beginning control of writing, drawing, and art toolsD5.1 Social Studies: Develops a basic awareness of self as an individual, self within the context of family, and self within the context of community.V.D.2 Shows awareness of the environmentSocial Emotional Curriculum Weeks 11-14 ................
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