PKFA- 3 | Ms. Andrea and Ms. Kim

Welcome to Unit 10: Transformation
Welcome to Unit 10: Children conclude the year by investigating how things change over time. This final pre-K unit is an opportunity to apply knowledge and skills children learned in previous units, and to help children prepare for upcoming transitions. To transform means to make a thorough or dramatic change in form, appearance or character. 

• In week one, children will begin the unit by considering the question “What changes around me?” Activities in week one help children express what they already know and extend their learning through play, literature. Children will also explore how their feelings change and how their actions and words can impact others’ feelings. These discussions and activities will help children develop concepts and skills related to self-awareness, self-regulation and relationship with others that will be key as they transition into Kindergarten. 

• In week two, there are opportunities to investigate how objects change and why. Building on skills they learned in Unit 7: Water, children will explore changes in state (e.g. water to ice) as well as repurposing, reusing and recycling materials. Children will begin to explore how they are agents of change in a variety of ways, including activities where they can change the shape of an object or objects.

• In week three children will build on learning from Units 7 through 9 by investigating changes in nature. There are opportunities to discuss and learn about metamorphosis through studying the life cycle of insects such as butterflies as well as to notice changes in weather and seasons. Neighborhoods throughout New York City provide opportunities to observe change. 

• In week four, children will have the opportunity to reflect on their personal growth and consider how they will continue to change. This builds on learning they have done throughout the year to develop a strong self-concept. Children may bring up or be thinking about changes in their life that may be sensitive, complex or challenging such as moving homes or changes in their family structure. Children may also have different feelings about preparing to leave the pre-K classroom and entering Kindergarten. 

Week of June 22nd

This week's discussion is about: What changes around me?

Monday, June 22

Good morning. I hope you were able to wish that special man in your life a Happy Father’s Day. Today we would like you to work on your memory books and we have a fun math game for you to play today and the rest of the summer.

Read Aloud:
The Wonderful Things You Will Be

Compete to win at putt-putt math.

Use supplies that you have and make your own putt putt course. This can be a simple game where kids simply shoot for the highest number. Have your child keep score. After two or three turns, have your child add together the scores. Use pennies or items from your collection for counters. Have them put the correct number of counters for each numeral they recorded and count how many in all. Who has more?
If you don’t have a club or hockey stick, you can roll the ball.
Variation:
Try to get the lowest score to win. 

Songs: We’re going on a Bear Hunt

 

Tuesday, June 23,
 
Good morning. Today you are thinking about what you like about yourself and what we wish for you. Everyone has unique and special qualities. Explore those qualities, today. Have fun doing the math game. Remember to work on your memory book.
 
Read alouds:
I Like Myself
I Wish You More
What do you like about you?
What is your dream for you?
 
Seesaw: Draw a self-portrait.
 
As you grow and change, you befin to lose teeth and get new ones. Play:                                                Race to Lose a Tooth
 Materials Needed: mini marshmallows, muffin tins or cups, 2 pieces of pink paper, scissors, a die, and a black marker.
 Fold your two pink papers in half and cut it to look like two open mouths (one for each player)... just like your mouth will look when you have it wide open at the dentist. Then draw several little circles around the edges of the papers to serve as spots for teeth. You can draw a lot of circles... or only have a few.
 
Put several marshmallows in a muffin tin liner, grab a die and you are ready to play!

How to play:
 
To start off the game the kids need to place a marshmallow on each circle so that each player starts with a full mouth of marshmallow "teeth."

 
Once each mouth is full of teeth, players take turns rolling the die.
 
Whatever number one child rolls is how many teeth he "loses." He then has to remove that many teeth from his board and put them back in the muffin tin liner.

As players get closer to having all their teeth gone they need to roll an exact number to lose all of them. For example, if a player has 3 teeth left, he needs to roll a 3 to get out... or he needs to roll a 2 followed by a 1 to get out... he can't just roll a 5 and take 3 off the board.  
 
The player to have a blank board FIRST is the winner.
  

This game can also easily be played by just having kids roll the die and take away teeth without any competitive component... if they don't like that sort of thing. My kids do... so they loved this. The kids practiced reading numbers on a die, counting marshmallows, and my older son even worked on a little subtraction.
 
Videos:
I Am Me Poem
What Makes You Special
 
Songs:
Everyone is Special

Wednesday, June 24
 
Hooray!!!  You did it! Today is June 24th, our last day of school. We are all so very proud of you. We want you to have a wonderful summer. Keep practicing all the new skills you have learned this year. Good Luck in Kindergarten. 
If you want to save any of the fabulous work you have done on Seesaw, please download and save it. We are not sure if it will be available after the school year. 
 
Seesaw: complete any incomplete activities 

  
 

Dancing Patterns: Materials Needed: Music, for dancing. How to play:  Select a song you and your child enjoy for dancing  Invite your child to follow a pattern while dancing. For example, toe/heel, toe/heel/, toe/heel.  Consider trying more complex movement sequences. For example, clap/kick/kick, or toe/toe/heel/clap.  After you dance a pattern, invite your child to describe the pattern they danced. Emphasize the part of the pattern that keeps repeating (toe/heel, for example). Why this game? Patterns are essential to mathematics and are all around us. Helping children explore patterns, and see the structure in patterns, will provide a strong math foundation. Recognizing and recreating patterns eventually supports children in arithmetic, and eventually algebra!

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  Other Fun Stuff!

• Visit https://www.facebook.com/LaurieBerknerBand/ at 10 am for a live sing and dance along with The Laurie Berkner Band. 

AVisit https://www.atlanticwhiteshark.org/awsc-story-hour?fbclid=IwAR3Fl8Py2RUqiRHtAdo65BMV5Aq10ck07ntcePWVYHO5DT7cjjng1318Ecs at 10 am for Shark Storytime with the Atlantic White Shark Concervancy.

• Visit https://www.instagram.com/petethecatofficial/ at 12 noon for a virtual story time with James Dean, creator of PETE THE CAT. 

• Visit https://www.kennedy-center.org/education/mo-willems/ at 1 pm and join Mo Willems, author of the PIGEON and PIGGIE AND ELEPHANT books to explore ways of writing and making together. 

• Visit https://www.facebook.com/cincinnatizoo/ at 3 pm to in Home Safaris. Learn about animals and interact with zookeepers as they care for the animals in the zoo. Previous days Home Safaris are also available. 

• Visit https://www.facebook.com/musicwithpatrick/ at 6 pm to join Mr. Patrick of Music with Patrick for a daily Facebook Live performance. 

https://family.gonoodle.com
 

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