WEEKLY REMOTE LEARNING PLANNING FORM ROOM # 9

WEEKOF: 4/5-4/9/21 TEACHER’S NAME: Melissa Rivera

Day of the Week DAILY FOCUS(Focuses on the unit’s student outcomes-Daily Focus Question/ Lesson)

Play focus[Planting seeds for play activities (aka learning centers) Insert 4 additional DETAILED center ideas/ activities DAILY- this does not include art, writing, literacy]

MondayDate: 4/5/21

Focus question: What are plants?

Unit Plants We begin our new unit on plants. What are plants? How do they grow? We will open this theme with the book The Tiny Seed by Eric Carle. The children will be introduced to an overall view of what a seed is and how it becomes a flower. (Link for Remote learners Epic - Books for Kids (getepic.com) )

Review Parts of a plant with the children

Literacy Center: Letter of the week Pp for Parrot the children will create a letter P and decorate it as a parrot. Then they will write the word Parrot to the best of their abilities.

Dramatic Play: Garden: Turn Dramatic Play into a garden. Add seeds, pretend fruit, vegetables, flowers, trees etc. as well as tools such as gardening gloves, planting pots, trowels, hand hoes, watering cans, etc., to the center. Invite children to create labels for the garden in the Writing Center. Children can pretend to plant and harvest in the garden. Set up a gardening corner. Include a variety of gardening tools (toys), watering cans, empty flowerpots, etc. Add gardening gloves, a sun hat, a hose, and knee protectors. These items can also be created in advance by the children to add to dramatic play center.Math Center:Number of the week: Number 5 the children will create a number 5 on their own and collage it with sequence or stickers. Then they will write the word five to the best of their abilities.

Science Center: Plant Life Cycle: Provide individual pictures of the plant life cycle. Ask children to sequence the pictures. Provide pictures or diagrams for children to refer to as they play and talk with them about each stage in the life cycle.

Writing Center: the children will trace the letters in their name.Art Center: The children will then create their own flower based on the book cover the tiny seed by Eric Carle. At home provide your child with paper and crayons and have them draw their own flower. The children will then write the word flower at the end of their craft.

Block CenterBuild Plants: Wrap blocks in green and brown paper (and other colors as desired) and invite children to use them to create stems, tree trunks, soil etc. Supply paper, scissors, and tape for children to use to create leaves, flowers etc. to add to their plants. Also consider hanging pictures of a wide variety of plants for children to reference as they build. As children create their plants talk with them about the parts of the plants and types of plants they are creating, highlighting vocabulary words such as branch, flower, leaves and stem.

TuesdayDate 4/6/21

Focus question: What are plants?

Unit Plants

 We will now break down the process of a plant. What is the life cycle of a plant? The children will be introduced to the plant life cycle. We then will brainstorm ideas of how they believe a plant grows. We will create a picture plant life-cycle graph.

Computer Center: Shapes AdventuresThe children will be able to identify the shapes and sort them by color. At home you can use any shape computer game available such as https://www.sesamestreet.org/games?id=25871

Dramatic Play: Garden: Turn Dramatic Play into a garden. Add seeds, pretend fruit, vegetables, flowers, trees etc. as well as tools such as gardening gloves, planting pots, trowels, hand hoes, watering cans, etc., to the center. Invite children to create labels for the garden in the Writing Center. Children can pretend to plant and harvest in the garden. Set up a gardening corner. Include a variety of gardening tools (toys), watering cans, empty flowerpots, etc. Add gardening gloves, a sun hat, a hose, and knee protectors. These items can also be created in advance by the children to add to dramatic play center.Math Center: Shape Flowers: Using all different precut shapes, have students create their own unique flower. While creating the flower, have students identify the shapes.

Art Center: We will then create our own life cycle of a plant pictures. At home you can use paper and crayons to draw your own plant life cycle. The children will label the cycle of the plant to the best of their abilities using teacher visuals.

Block Center: Build Plants: Wrap blocks in green and brown paper (and other colors as desired) and invite children to use them to create stems, tree trunks, soil etc. Supply paper, scissors, and tape for children to use to create leaves, flowers etc. to add to their plants. Also consider hanging pictures of a wide variety of plants for children to reference as they build. As children create their plants talk with them about the parts of the plants and types of plants they are creating, highlighting vocabulary words such as branch, flower, leaves and stem.Writing Center: Seed Letters: Write letters on index cards. Provide seeds for children to place on the letters. Talk with the children about the letters they chose to create and some of the words that start with those letters. Children can glue the seeds on to the letters or do this activity without glue, then empty and reuse the cards after each use.Literacy Center: sight word of the week puzzle (and)

WednesdayDate 4/7/21 Focus question: What are plants?

Unit PlantsWe will review what we learned so far about plants. Teacher will then introduce various types of seeds with the picture of what they become when they grow. We will discuss how some plants grow above soil and some grow below. We will create a chart of which grow above, and which grow below. We will see a short video on plants and how they grow, then we will create our own plants. The children will then tell us what type of plant (lettuce, carrot, etc.) they made and how it grows, above or below soil.

Dramatic Play Center: Garden: Turn Dramatic Play into a garden. Add seeds, pretend fruit, vegetables, flowers, trees etc. as well as tools such as gardening gloves, planting pots, trowels, hand hoes, watering cans, etc., to the center. Invite children to create labels for the garden in the Writing Center. Children can pretend to plant and harvest in the garden. Set up a gardening corner. Include a variety of gardening tools (toys), watering cans, empty flowerpots, etc. Add gardening gloves, a sun hat, a hose, and knee protectors. These items can also be created in advance by the children to

add to dramatic play center.

Writing Center: Practice writing words around your home using a paper and pencil. plants, seeds, grow etc

Sensory Center: Add items to a water bin and encourage students to find the items and sort by color.Literacy Center:Art Center: Paper plate flower craft: The children will create their own flowers using paper plates, crayons, paint, and craft sticks. At home you can use paper and crayons to draw your own flower.

Science Center: Students can pretend to be a botanist studying plants to see if different water or dirt changes the growth of plants. What liquids help seeds grow? For the purposes of this experiment, we decided to test how seeds grow when given one of four different liquids: (Seed experiment #5: What liquids help seeds grow? - Gift of Curiosity) plain water, salt water, sugar water, vinegar

Computer Center: https://www.education.com/game/alphabet-balloon-pop/ Alphabet Balloon pop game

ThursdayDate 4/8/21

Focus question: What are plants?

Unit Plants

We will pretend to be botanist. What is a botanist? an expert in or student of the scientific study of plants. We will read the book Planting seeds by Kathryn Clay (link for remote learners https://youtu.be/vgmT-pDNlok ) We will discuss what we saw in the book by taking a picture walk with the children.On Friday we will be planting our own seeds. Beginning with grass seeds and various other types of seeds.Our experiment : Do plants only need soil to grow or can they grow in sand? Each child will get 2 transparent cups one for soil and one for sand. They will plant their seeds and throughout the upcoming days see which will grow. (we will create a chart with the children to write their responses from their hypothesis)

Writing Center: Practice tracing horizontal and vertical lines on a paper.Sensory Center: Add items to a water bin and encourage students to find the items and sort by color.

Math Center Compare Heights: Cut out a tree that is approximately the same size as many of the children in the class. Hang it on the wall and invite children to see if the tree is taller or shorter than they are. Children can write their names on the tree to indicate their own height.Art Center: Plant Drawing: Invite students to use supplied pictures and use crayons or markers to draw a plant of their choice. They can then label the parts of the plant.

Literacy Center: The children will read a book and

search for the sight word of the week (a). How many times did you find the word?Block Center: Plant Pictures: Add pictures of plants, gardens, green roofs, farms etc. to the walls of the Blocks/Construction Center for children to reference as they work.Dramatic Play:Botanist: Have students go to their pretend lab to study plants. Include magnifying glass and premade parts of plants. Ask students what they see? Are their plants healthy? What should we do to help the plant grow? Have students create healthy plants with their botanist friends.

FridayDate 4/9/21

Focus question: What are plants?

Unit Plants

We will pretend to be botanist. What is a botanist? an expert in or student of the scientific study of plants. We will read the book Planting seeds by Kathryn Clay (link for remote learners https://youtu.be/vgmT-pDNlok ) We will discuss what we saw in the book by taking a picture walk with the children.On Friday we will be planting our own seeds. Beginning with grass seeds and various other types of seeds.Our experiment : Do plants only need soil to grow or can they grow in sand? Each child will get 2 transparent cups one for soil and one for sand. They will plant their seeds and throughout the upcoming days see which will grow. (we will create a chart with the children to write their responses from their hypothesis)

Writing Center: Collage their names using seeds.

Block Center: Plant Pictures: Add pictures of plants, gardens, green roofs, farms etc. to the walls of the Blocks/Construction Center for children to reference as they work.Art Center: We will begin our plants activities the children will decorate their own flower pot and be provided with an assortment of seeds to choose which they will like to plant.

Math Center: Directional/Positional Concepts books allow the children to use these books to practice these concepts of under, over, on, below etc..Science Center My flower boxFill a container with dirt and add gardening tools, plastic flowers, and an empty watering can (to avoid messes). Children will enjoy planting the flowers in the dirt.Literacy Center: Letter of the week review what words begin with the letter Pp. Create a chart with pictures for the children.

Dramatic Play: Botanist: Have students go to their pretend lab to study plants. Include magnifying glass and premade parts of plants. Ask students what they see? Are their plants healthy? What should we do to help the plant grow? Have students create healthy plants with their botanist friends.

NYS Pre-K Learning Standards:

Domain 1: Approaches to Learning PK.AL.5. Demonstrates persistence Domain 2: Physical Development and Health PK.PDH.5. Demonstrates eye-hand coordination and fine motor skills needed to manipulate objects Domain 3: Social and Emotional Learning PK.SEL.2. Recognizes self as an individual having unique abilities, characteristics, feelings and interests Domain 4: Communication, Language and Literacy Part A: Approaches to Communication Background Knowledge PK.AC.2. Demonstrates they are building background knowledge Viewing PK.AC.3. Demonstrates understanding of what is observed.

Social Emotional Curriculum

• https://hidecorg.files.wordpress.com/2020/09/social-emotional-home-link-english.pdf Weeks 24-27

• https://hidecorg.files.wordpress.com/2020/09/social-emotional-curriculum-spanish.pdf