cross-curricular adventures in the early childhood classroom...example of a cross-curricular unit...
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Cross-Curricular Adventures in
the Early Childhood Classroom
Presenter: Julie Vine 5K Teacher at Prince of Peace Catholic School
Behind the scenes... How I get started
Letter of the week
Standards
Incorporate Dallas Diocese’s standards
Goals
Goal: Week’s and Review
Activity: what we are learning that day
Target: Work or Social habits ( yearly or monthly)
Living Lab
Towards the end of the week
Overall learning
Areas of Learning
Throughout the week, the students incorporate all subjects in their learning.
STEAM, Art, Literacy, Math, Science, Social Studies,
Geography, Technology
Supplies
Books for the week, both non fiction and fiction.
Allows for close reads
Examples: Tree cookies, newspapers, tape, marbles.
Donated supplies for the classroom: phones, cash
registers, dress up clothes, etc.
Example of a Cross-Curricular Unit
○ White House Unit
○ Literacy: Pull books about the White House,
close read, handwriting practice (naming
their White House)
○ STEAM: Picture of White House on
projector, supplies given for students to
build their White House
○ Background knowledge: Review of
America’s history
○ Social skills: Students learned work
together, problem solved, and organized
their project.
Literacy
• Magnets with words
• Friends’ names on sentence strips
• Dictation
• Dr. Seuss Day
Math
• Patterns with real objects
• Venn Diagrams
• 3D shapes with clay
• Number puzzles
Science and STEAM
• Elephant Jaw
• Alligator heads
• Animal habitats with recycled
materials
• Explore materials
Social Studies
• Voting Booth
• American Flag Design
• President’s Day
• Maps
• Dr. Seuss’s books
• Lorax, Sneetches,
Yertle the Turtle
Creative
Art
• Real life paintings and drawings
• Examples of art
• Circle art
• Marble, tree cookies, beads, clay
• Paint, oil pastels, crayons, markers
Social Skills
• Collaboration projects
• Play-based with some guidance
• Indoor/outdoor learning
• Architect, design, engineering
• Scientific method
• Problem solving
Technology
• Overhead projector for
visuals
• See Saw to
communicate with
parents
• Videos using iPad
• Vowel Bat
• Pebble Go
Learning Goals
• Learning Goal: weekly unit and lesson
plans
• Learning Activities: change daily, math
worksheets, dictation, thinking maps
• Learning Target: achieved throughout
the year, everyday procedures
(carpool, unpacking, responsibilities,
lunch, specials of the day)
Living Lab Example: Texas Day
Living Lab Example: V is for Vet
Umbrella Unit: Living Lab
Egg Hatching: Chickens
Antique Road Show
○ Bring something that was created or
invented before they were born
○ “Show and Tell”
Caine’s ArcadeCardboard Challenge Imagination Foundation
My Favorite Books to Read
○ Bev Bos
○ Robert Munsch
○ Dr. Seuss
○ The Umbrella by Jan Brett
○ Roxenboxen by Alice McLerran
○ Iggy Peck Architect by Andre Beaty
○ Not a Box by Antoinette Portis
○ Ten Black Dots by Donald Crews
○ The Dot by Peter H. Reynolds