Reminders:
Surveys to be completed send home hard copy or via email.
Please continue to complete Seesaw assignments.
Read Aloud Questions:
The link for the read aloud of this week’s foundational text,
Everywhere Babies by Susan Meyers, Here!
Level 1: Recall
When and where are babies born?
What are some ways babies are carried? What are some noises that babies make?
Level 2: Skill/Concept
Every day, everywhere babies are rocked. Why do you think people rock babies?
Every day, everywhere babies are kissed. Why do you think people like to kiss babies?
Every day, everywhere babies make friends. How do babies make friends?
Level 3: Strategic Thinking
Why do you think babies usually crawl before they walk?
What do you think babies think about when they are learning to walk?
When babies first start to walk they fall a lot. How do you think that makes them feel?
Level 4: Extended Thinking
Babies are growing. How are you growing?
In this book, babies make friends with puppies, kittens, young people and old people. How do you make friends?
Remote Learning weekly Activity
Baby Portraits
Show your child pictures from when they were a baby. Invite them to look at the pictures and draw or paint a picture of themselves as a baby. As your child observes and considers their pictures, engage them in discussion about the details they notice in the pictures. What has changed about the way they look now compared to when they were babies? Why?
PK.SOC.6. Develops an understanding of how people and things change over time and how to relate past events to their present and future activities
Unit Topic:
• Babies
Essential Question for the Unit:
• What are babies?
Focus Question for the Week:
• What do human babies need?
Focused Learning Activity for the Week:
• Mrs. Schiller and Mrs. Molina will work with students in the block center. Students will be asked to brainstorm what objects need to be added to the center in order to create a baby nursery.
Pre-K Common Core Learning Standard Addressed:
• PK.AL.2: Actively engages in problem solving.
Foundational Text for the Week:
• Everywhere Babies by Susan Meyers
Pre-K Common Core Learning Standard Addressed:
• PK.CKW.4 (Social Studies): Develops an understanding of how people and things change over time and how to relate past events to their present and future activities.
Questions That Will Be Asked Throughout The Week:
Level 1: Recall
When and where are babies born?
What are some ways babies are carried? What are some noises that babies make?
Level 2: Skill/Concept
Every day, everywhere babies are rocked. Why do you think people rock babies?
Every day, everywhere babies are kissed. Why do you think people like to kiss babies?
Every day, everywhere babies make friends. How do babies make friends?
Level 3: Strategic Thinking
Why do you think babies usually crawl before they walk?
What do you think babies think about when they are learning to walk?
When babies first start to walk they fall a lot. How do you think that makes them feel?
Level 4: Extended Thinking
Babies are growing. How are you growing?
In this book, babies make friends with puppies, kittens, young people and old people. How do you make friends?
Lessons and Activities for the Week:
Blocks- Students will be invited to use blocks to create a nursery.
Art- Students are invited to create their own baby portraits with a variety of art materials.
Science- Students will be able to play a matching game, matching the adult animal to its offspring.
Math- Cutouts of babies of various lengths will be added to the math center. Students will be able to measure each baby and tell which is longest and shortest.
Library- Students are invited to read books about our theme, babies.
Writing- Cards will be supplied with pictures of animal babies as well as their names. They will be placed in a bin for children to reference as they create their own animal baby book.
Sensory- Students will be able to give babies a bath with their own containers and consider why babies need help to wash or take a bath.
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