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Mrs. Victoria SchmidVMSchmid.HRSgmail.comPreK-3
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**THE WEEK OF FEBRUARY 24th**
*Water*
Essential Question:
What does water do?
Focus Question :
Where can we find water?
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Focus Vocabulary:beach, cloud, deep, environment, faucet, fountain, hail, lake, mist, ocean, pond, puddle, rain, river, sea, shallow, sleet, snow, storm, stream, swamp, vapor, water, water cycle, weather
Foundational Learning Experiences
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:
Parents , please have your children 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 PlayWe 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
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
**Books we will read this week**
*Culminating Celebration*
We will create a class book about water. We will ask each child what s/he has learned about water and we will add a picture of him/her exploring water during this study.
*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 10 , 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 **
Additional Resources
* Week of February 17th Reminders*
Feb 17th & 18th -NO SCHOOL
General Reminders
**Please check your child's folder daily for any important notes or announcements**
Blankets and sheets will go home every Friday. Please be sure to wash and return them to school on Monday!
** Please keep in mind that dismissal is in the cafeteria on rainy, snowy or rigid cold days..
Please be sure to LABEL everything!!!!
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