**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 Play 
We will turn our dramatic play area into a laundrymat.

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. 

Fine motor:
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

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**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.

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*Please send back the sheet and blanket every Monday.
* No school 2/27

 

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