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Week 2

How and why do we use different kinds of lights?

Focus​​​​ Question:

What is darkness?

 

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Focus Vocabulary:cloud, dark, diurnal, hozizontal, night, nocturnal, opaque, shade, sunglasses, transparent, translucent

 

 

Foundational Learning Experiences:

The children will view Vincent Van Gogh's Starry Night painitng and respond to it. They will be asked some questions about it ( ie; What do they notice about the painting?, How does the painitng make you feel?, What do you see in the picture?, What colors do you see?, What might these colors mean?, What does the title of the painting tell us?)
 

 

Family and Community Engagement:

Ask your children how dark or light it is at pick up and/or drop offand compare what they see to various points od the year. For example, if it is dark when you pick your children up they might consider if it is always dark at pickup as why or why not..
         

 

Light Centers
 

*Blocks/Construction
We will add the nighttime NYC skyline to the walls in the Blocks/Construction Center. We will incite children to observe the lights in the picture and create additional buildings to add to the skyline.
We will also keep our traffic lights from our transportation unit.
PK.CKW.3 (Social Studies): Demonstrates knowledge of the re

 

*Dramatic Play*

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

 

*Art* 
The children will create stained Glass windows.
We will provide tissue paper and contact paper or clear container lids.  The children will use the tissue paper to create designs and place them on the contact paper or lid. The art will dry and hang in a window. The children will explain what the light did to their art.

 

*Math center *

We will provide glow sticks for children to use as they build with Magna-Tiles. We will encourage children to place the glow sticks inside their structures and note what they see.

PK.PDH.1: Uses senses to assist and guide learning

 

 

*Science*

Children will Explore hand-held prisms (transparent objects that are triangular). We will model how to position the prisms in order to bend light and create rainbows. We will inteoducs  the word prism to the children and use it often throughout the exploration.

PK.CKW.1 (Science): Asks questions and makes predictions based on observations and manipulation of things and events in the environment

*Sensory*
The children will go digging in the sand table to find the light from glow sticks. Laminated stars will be added, as well for the children to explore. 

**Books we will read this week**

 

 

*Culminating Celebration*- We will have a shadow puppet show. We will spens several days creating stories in small groups. Each group will create puppets for their shadow show. For the performance, We will hang a sheet and place a light source behind it, the children will use their puppets behind the sheet to act out their story while the teachers and other students read their words.

*Writing*

Throughout the year we we will continue to practice writing our names as well as identifying the letters in our name. 
 Please practice this at home with your children. 




Some resources to help your children at home are;

https://handsonaswegrow.com/practice-name-writing-preschoolers/

https://www.writinga-z.com/main/ViewPage/



This week we will practice counting to 5 , while practicing indentifying and writing the numbers. 

We will have fun identifying and drawing our shapes!

Please practice counting and drawing shapes at home!

**OUR TRIP TO THE LIBRARY **

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