Week of February 24th  


Theme:
Water 

Essential Question:
What does water do? 

Focus Question:
Where can we find water? 


 

Focus Vocabulary:
beach, cloud, deep, environment, facet, fountain, hail, lake, mist, ocean, pond, puddle, rain, river, sea, shallow, sleet, snow, storm, stream, swamp, vapor, water, water cycle, weather 
Foundational Learning Experience 
We will introduce the water unit by reading Water Dance. We will talk about all the different places water can be found. We will make a chart together with visuals. 

Family and Community Engagement 

   have you children and your create a paper boat at home.
We will send home directions for folding a paper boat (see Section XI: Appendices). Families, you can create the boat at home, have your children draw themselves in the boat and send it back to school. Children will try floating their boats in the water table. 

Water Centers
  Blocks
Ice Castles 
The teacher will add picture of ice castles in the block centers. The teachers will have the children refer to these pictures to build their own ice castles. 

Dramatic Play 
Beach 
We will turn our dramatic play area into a beach. We will help the children to create a beach by using paint to create the water, sun and sand. We will add seashells and sunglasses. 

Art 
Markers and Water 
We will create a picture with markers. After, we have finished with the markers, we will provide spray bottles of water and we will lightly spray our papers. After, we spray the papers, we will watch and describe how the water changes our work. 

Math/Table
Letters 
We will provide an assortment of small toy letters and tongs. We will use the tongs to pick up the letters, discuss the sounds and/or search for their letters in their names and vocabulary words related to water. 

Science 
Absorption 
We will provide an assortment of materials (e.g. cotton ball, power towel, penny, spoon), some absorbent and some that will not absorb in water, as well as a dish of water and eye droppers or pipettes. We will invite the children to place a few drops of water onto each item and note weather the item absorbs the water. We will provide a chart for the children so they can record the results.

Sensory 
Life in the Pond  
We will turn the sensory table into a pond. We will add water, rocks, sand, sticks, small plants, toy fish, frogs, etc. We will invite  the children to play in the pond. 

Writing
Stone Soup Recipes
The teacher would read the book ​Stone Soup​ by Heather Forest. After, she is reading she will invite the children to discuss what they would put in their own soup. She would than supply them with paper to record their recipes. (drawing or writing)

Books we will read this week

Cultimating Celebration 
We will create a class book about what the children know and have learned about water through the unit. We will add pictures of the children exploring water in our class book. 

Please remember on Thursday, Febuary 27th there is no school for ALL Pre-K classes. For teacher conference day

 

Home Extensions 


Your child will be given an OPTIONAL packet every week that consists of tracing, coloring, etc numbers, letters and shapes. If you chose to do this packet with your child it is due the following Friday. 

Please continue to practice with your child how to write their first name if they have mastered it have them begin to practice writing their last name.