Pre-K Creative Curriculum Reduce, Reuse, Recycle Study Remote Learning without Technology Home Activities Week 7 PreK Instructional Continuity Learning Calendar Focus Question: What do people throw away? Where does trash go? What do workers do there? Day Question of the Day Movement Small Group Social Emotiona l Creative Curriculum Literacy/ Math Activity Day 1 May 26th, 2020 Investigation 1, Day 1 Discuss with the members in your house. What did you throw away today? Today go on a walk with a family member and count the number of trash cans in your home? Story Problems Items Needed: A collection of things such as, pennies, toothpicks or dried beans. Invite the children to explore the collection of small objects. Say: we have 10 pennies in a pile. Let’s move five of the items over here. Now we have 2 piles of pennies. Can you count how many are in each pile? Present various story problems such as: Let’s pretend that we are feeding these pennies to the birds that come to our window. If we see four birds, we need four chips. Uh-Oh! One bird flew away! How many RECAP Talk to your child about ways to calm down when they are upset. Ask them to share strategies they may have learned at school (Tuck like a turtle, smell the flower & blow out the candle, count to 10). Ask your child if they have other ways they can calm down when they are at home (ask for a hug, go to their room, get a drink of water, stomp their feet 3 times, etc.) Story Time Activity: Choice #1- Listen to your teacher read a book over the phone. Choice #2- Watch Youtube Read Aloud Something From Nothing Possible Discussion/Questions: - The name of the book is Something From Nothing…”I wonder how you can make something from nothing.” -allow your child to make predictions about what the grandfather will make. Patterns Using household items like pennies, toothpicks or dried beans. Make a pattern with the items for example: penny, toothpick, penny,toothpick, penny, toothpick and then have the child continue the pattern..
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Pre-K Creative Curriculum Reduce, Reuse, Recycle Study
Remote Learning without Technology Home Activities
Week 7 PreK Instructional Continuity Learning Calendar
Focus Question: What do people throw away? Where does trash go? What do workers do there?
Day Question of the Day
Movement Small Group Social Emotional Creative Curriculum
Literacy/ Math Activity
Day 1 May 26th, 2020 Investigation 1, Day 1
Discuss with the members in your house. What did you throw away today?
Today go on a walk with a family member and count the number of trash cans in your home?
Story Problems
Items Needed: A collection of things such as, pennies, toothpicks or dried beans.
Invite the children to explore the collection of small objects. Say: we have 10 pennies in a pile. Let’s move five of the items over here. Now we have 2 piles of pennies. Can you count how many are in each pile?
Present various story problems such as: Let’s pretend that we are feeding these pennies to the birds that come to our window. If we see four birds, we need four chips. Uh-Oh! One bird flew away! How many
RECAP Talk to your child about ways to calm down when they are upset. Ask them to share strategies they may have learned at school (Tuck like a turtle, smell the flower & blow out the candle, count to 10). Ask your child if they have other ways they can calm down when they are at home (ask for a hug, go to their room, get a drink of water, stomp their feet 3 times, etc.)
Story Time Activity: Choice #1- Listen to your teacher read a book over the phone. Choice #2- Watch Youtube Read Aloud Something From Nothing
Possible Discussion/Questions: - The name of the book is Something From Nothing…”I wonder how you can make something from nothing.” -allow your child to make predictions about what the grandfather will make.
Patterns Using household items like pennies, toothpicks or dried beans. Make a pattern with the items for example: penny, toothpick, penny,toothpick, penny, toothpick and then have the child continue the pattern..
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chips do we need now?
Think of other stories that children may enjoy using 10 items!
-How did he make something from nothing? Choice #3- “I am a Storyteller” Use these items to create your own story with your child
Day 2 May 27th, 2020 Investigation 1, Day 2
Discuss with the members in your house. Does all trash stink?
Movement: Sing to the tune of “For He’s a Jolly Good Fellow Pretend to bounce a ball Call attention to the /b/sound at the beginning of words.
Action Patterns
Items Needed: None
Invite children to join you in a game that repeats body movements to create patterns. Perform a simple pattern, such as clap, stomp,clap, stomp, clap, stomp at
RECAP Topic: Using the Problem Solving Steps Activity: Talk to your child about ways they can solve problems. In school we have learned to 1. Stop and Calm Down, 2. Think about what I can do to fix it, and 3.Go and Try my
Story Time Activity: Choice #1- Listen to your teacher read a book over the phone. Choice #2- Watch Youtube Read Aloud IStink!
Letter Hunt How many T’s can you find around your home? T t
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We’re bouncing big brown balls. We’re bouncing big brown balls. We’re bouncing big brown balls. Boing, boing, boing!! (Try the trash and garbage version…”We’re picking up the trash.”)
least 5 times. Invite children to join you as you continue the pattern.
Think of other movements such as: arms up, clap, jump, hit hands on lap. .
solution. Talk about different problems your child may have and go through the steps with them in order to solve their problems. Some possible examples are not getting something they want, not wanting to go to bed, having to share with a sibling. Have your child practice each of the steps to solve their problems.
Possible Questions: -What do you think this book is about? (show cover) - Who is out at night while we sleep? -What is he collecting? -What did he collect in his alphabet soup? Choice #3- “I am a Storyteller” Use these items to create your own story with your child
Day 3 May 28th, 2020 Investigation 1, Day 3
Discuss with the members in your house. Can you name something in your house you can recycle?
Body Patterns Demonstrate a simple two-part action pattern and name the actions as you do them, e.g., touch thigh, clap hands; touch thigh, clap hands. Invite the children to follow along and take turns leading.
Alphabet Cards:
Items Needed:
Upper(A,B,C) and Lowercase (a,b,c) Alphabet cards
(you can write on index cards or on
RECAP: Topic: More Problem Solving Practice Activity: Remind your student of the skills you practiced yesterday to solve problems (1. Stop and Calm Down; 2. Think about my choices; 3. Try a solution). Talk about times your
Story Time Activity: Choice #1- Listen to your teacher read a book over the phone. Choice #2- Watch Youtube Read Aloud Radio Man, A Story in English and Spanish
Recycling Sort: Have your child collect items from your recycling bin. Have your child identify what each item is and then sort them (i.e. cans, water bottles, etc). Allow your child the opportunity to count each group and tell you which one has the most and least.
Make the patterns more complex by using three or four actions, e.g., lean left, lean right, etc.
sheets of paper)
Have the child explore the alphabet cards. Talk to them about the letters in their name and the sounds that each letter makes. Have the children trace the letters of their name with their fingers. Have them sort upper and lower case letters. See which letters they can name or even make the sounds of...
child may have recently become upset or frustrated. Role play using the problem solving steps to resolve problems. Model using the steps if you have a problem. Use the steps in real time when your child becomes upset or frustrated throughout the day.
Possible Questions:1.) What do you think gave Diego the idea to bring his radio with him and listen to it wherever he goes? 2.) Diego moved a lot and had to say good-bye to friends and family. How do you feel when you have to say good-bye to someone you care about? Choice #3- “I am a Storyteller” Use these items to create your own story with your child
Day 4 May 29th, 2020 Investigation 2, Day 1
Where do you think the trash goes after we throw it away? (Invite children to draw a picture of where they think the trash goes)
Hop Around Sing the following song to the tune of “Skip to My Lou.” Hop, hop, hop all around. Hop, hop, hop all around. Hop, hop, hop all around. Let’s hop around together. 2. Repeat substituting different actions for “hop.
Rhyming Riddles Materials Needed: Rhyming words for parent to reference: such as cat, hat, can, man, mitten, kitten
Invite children to join you in a game called “Rhyming Riddles”.Explain that rhyming words sound alike at the end of the word. Offer some
Arte’ Y Mas During this time of the day is when we have Arte y Mas (Spanish). Ask your child some of the words in Spanish they have learned this year.
Story Time Activity: Choice #1- Listen to your teacher read a book over the phone. Choice #2- Watch Youtube Read Aloud Sam Helps Recycle
Guided Learning: Riddle Dee Dee – Rhyming 1. Chant the following rhyme: Riddle dee dee, riddle dee dee. Can you make a rhyme with me? I say [ball], you say [fall]. [Ball], [fall], [mall], [gall]. 2. Provide the first two rhyming words
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examples and invite children to say some rhyming words they know. Say some words to them, like the ones above. Say:” I’m thinking of something you wear on your head that rhymes with cat.”.....Child says, hat! “Today I had some soup that I poured out of something that rhymes with man.”...child says can! “In the winter I wear something on my hands that rhymes with kitten.” Child says, mitten! .
Possible Questions: -What are some items that Maya’s family recycled? -What are some items that your family recycles? Choice #3- “I am a Storyteller” Use these items to create your own story with your child
