WEEKLY REMOTE LEARNING PLANNING FORM ROOM #10

WEEKOF: 2/1/2021 TEACHER’S NAME: Diana

Day of the Week

DAILY FOCUS

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Monday

Date: 2/1/2021

· Daily Focus: The teacher will begin the lesson by noting that we are starting a new unit about lights. The teacher will introduce the new song: “Let it shine”. The teacher will review the words of the song, and will invite the students to sing along to the song and complete the dance movements. The class will review each line of the song and discuss the different forms of light that are mentioned and how light brightens our days and allows us to see.

· Group Goal For The Week: There are lights all around us. There are artificial lights and natural lights. These different types of lights help us see, have warmth, get around safely, make food, and more. Lights are important in every part of our lives.

· Literacy: - Letter of the week: o

· Read or look at pictures in a book. Point out pictures and review what letter pictures start with. Encourage the student to find objects that begin with the letter of the week. High five or clap when you find a picture that begins with the letter of the week, o.

· Writing: - Letter of the week: O

· O is for octopus! Create an octopus out of the letter O. Trace a large O shape (within a circle in the middle) for your student. Encourage and/or help them cut out the large O, along with 8 strips of paper. Glue the O to a piece of paper as the body for the octopus, and encourage your student to glue the octopus’s arms onto the body. Encourage your student to repeat letter O, the sound it makes, and notice that Octopus starts with letter O. Encourage your child to draw eyes and a mouth on the octopus to make it more life-like.

Art: Luminaries: using empty plastic bottles, encourage your student to use permanent markers to decorate their bottles. (monitor students as they use permanent markera). Place small string lights into the bottle and display. Or, encourage your student to use a flashlight and notice what happens when you shine the flashlight inside of the colored bottles.

· Math: - Number of the week: 6 - Using any materials you have available to you, have the student count out 6 items, and glue them onto a piece of paper. (Cotton balls, stickers, pieces of paper). Encourage the student to practice counting out the 6 items and writing the number 6.

· Science: Flashlight Parts: Provide flashlights and invite children to disassemble them and explore the parts. Help them ponder how the flashlight works as well as what each piece is for and how they fit together.

· Blocks: Reflective Blocks: Adhere strips of Mylar or other reflective materials such as tin foil to a few of the blocks for children to use as they build. Encourage your student to notice how the light reflects off the materials as they build.

Water/Sensory: Foil: Line the bottom (or underside, if the table is clear) of the sensory table with tin foil. Add water as well as glass beads, bath balls, containers, scoops, etc. Invite children to explore, sort and enjoy.

Tuesday

Date: 2/2/2021

· Daily Focus: The teacher will begin the lesson by noting that we are learning about light this month. The teacher will invite the students to sing and dance to our “Let it shine” song, describing different types of light and how it brightens our day. After going through the song, the teacher will ask the students: “What kind of lights are around us?” The class will work together to compile a list of the types of lights we see (lightbulbs, flashlights, sun, moon, fire, lightening).

· Group Goal For The Week: There are lights all around us. There are artificial lights and natural lights. These different types of lights help us see, have warmth, get around safely, make food, and more. Lights are important in every part of our lives.

· Literacy: Letter of the week: o

· Look through magazines or newspapers to find pictures that begin with the letter of the week. Encourage the student to cut out the pictures and glue them onto another piece of paper to create a letter o collage.

· Writing: Letters with Holes: Use a hole punch to create letters on pieces of paper. Allow children to place the papers over a light source such as a flashlight, light table or lamp and explore the letters and light. Have them trace the letters when finished.

· Art: Making Traffic Lights! For this activity you will need black, red, yellow, and green paper, glue, and a popsicle stick. Encourage or help your student trace and cut out one large circle from the red paper, green paper, and yellow paper. Encourage your student to cut a large black rectangle out of the black paper. Then, glue the red, yellow, and green circles onto the black rectangle to make a traffic light. After the glue has dried, glue the traffic light onto a popsicle stick. Your student can now use their very own traffic light to play with!

· Math: Comparing Heavy and Light: Using two socks and different materials you have at home, fill the two socks with different materials (making one heavy and the other light) and encourage students to pick up the socks and compare their weights. Which is heavy? Which is light? How do you know?

· Dramatic Play: Shadow Play: Hang a white sheet or white bulletin board paper, place a light source behind it, and invite children to stand behind the sheet/ paper and act out stories. Students can retell familiar stories or create new stories of their own. Invite other students or family members to be actors and be audience.

· Science: Flashlight Parts: Provide flashlights and invite children to disassemble them and explore the parts. Help them ponder how the flashlight works as well as what each piece is for and how they fit together.

· Music & Movement: Disco Ball: Hang a disco ball in the Music and Movement Center, play music for dancing and invite children to dance. Also consider playing quiet, calm music and invite children to relax, listen to the music and observe the disco ball. Discuss their observations with them. To create a disco ball glue squares of tin foil to a ball or balloon.

Wednesday

Date: 2/3/2021

· Daily Focus: The teacher will begin the lesson by noting that we are learning about light this month. The teacher will invite the students to sing and dance to our “Let it shine” song, describing different types of light and how it brightens our day. After going through the song, the teacher will ask the students: Yesterday, we learned about different types of light. What do you think it means if something is a natural light? The teacher will work with the students to describe that a natural light is something that comes naturally, not made by people. The class will work together to compile a list of natural lights (fire, candle, sun, moon, lightening).

· Group Goal For The Week: There are lights all around us. There are artificial lights and natural lights. These different types of lights help us see, have warmth, get around safely, make food, and more. Lights are important in every part of our lives.

· Literacy: - Letter of the week: o

· Encourage the student to find items around the classroom, home, or community, that begin with the letter o (onion, orange, olive, etc.)

· Writing: Tracing shadows: Encourage students to trace another person’s shadow onto a piece of paper. Offer students support and prompting to have them trace with more precision.

· Art: A Sunny Day! Encourage your student to cut out a large yellow circle and multiple small orange triangles to create a sun (the triangles will be the sun’s rays). Encourage them to assemble and glue the sun onto another piece of paper. Then, spread apart some cotton balls and glue them on the piece of paper to create clouds! Encourage your student to think about how the sun gives us light.

· Math: Star counting: Using cut-outs of stars, show your child our number of the week (number 6) and encourage them to count out that many stars and glue it onto a piece of paper to create a night sky that corresponds with our number of the week. Encourage your child to notice the connection between the number 6 and the 6 stars they counted and glued.

· Blocks: Add small traffic lights and traffic signal toys (or make your own) for children to use as they build.

Science: Reflections: Introduce the word reflection to the children and use this word throughout the exploration. Invite children to look at their own reflections in a mirror (or a spoon if mirrors are not available). Encourage them to look for other reflective items throughout the classroom. Encourage them to draw pictures or write down the names of these items.

· Outdoor Play: My Shadow Does That Too: Point children’s shadows out to them. Invite them to move their bodies and watch their shadows. Ask children to pause and pose. If possible, take pictures of the children’s shadows. Ask children to tell you about their shadows and write down their responses

Thursday

Date: 2/4/2021

· Daily Focus: The teacher will begin the lesson by noting that we are learning about light this month. The teacher will invite the students to sing and dance to our “Let it shine” song, describing different types of light and how it brightens our day. After going through the song, the teacher will ask the students: We have been talking about different types of light. Yesterday, we learned about natural lights. We talked about how natural lights come about from nature, and are not made by humans. If that is natural light, what do you think artificial light is? The teacher will invite students to share their thoughts and ideas. The teacher will work with the class to describe artificial lights as lights made by humans. The class will work together to compile a list of artificial lights (lightbulbs, flashlights, traffic lights, electricity)

· Group Goal For The Week: There are lights all around us. There are artificial lights and natural lights. These different types of lights help us see, have warmth, get around safely, make food, and more. Lights are important in every part of our lives.

· Literacy: - Letter of the week: o

· Mystery box or bag: place pictures of objects that begin with the letter of the week in a box or bag. Encourage the student to pull out pictures and name the object. Encourage the student to repeat the letter, the sound the letter makes, and the name of the object.

· Writing: Providing students with cut-outs of stars, encourage students to glue stars onto a piece of paper to create the night sky. Then encourage students to connect the stars by drawing straight lines. For more of a challenge, encourage students to use curved lines to connect the stars.

Art:

· Paper Plate Moon: Supply your student with a paper plate and encourage them to color it blue. Then provide your student with an outline to cut (or help them cut) the paper plate into a moon shape. Then help your student cut out a star shape and color it yellow. Hole punch a hole in the top of the star and the top of the moon. Use string to connect the moon and star, and you have a beautiful moon and star to hang up!

· Math: Measuring! Giving your student a ruler, encourage your student to go around the home or classroom and measure objects, noticing which is longer and which is shorter.

· Dramatic Play: Make a rocketship from a cardboard box! Decorate the rocketship and use it for future pretend play! Pretend to be an astronaut going off to space!

· Blocks: Add small traffic lights and traffic signal toys (or make your own) for children to use as they build.

· Water/Sensory: Glowing: Use liquid food color or liquid watercolors to create dark water in the table. Add non-toxic glow sticks and invite the children to explore.

Friday

Date: 2/5/2021

· Daily Focus: The teacher will begin the lesson by noting that we are learning about light this month. The teacher will invite the students to sing and dance to our “Let it shine” song, describing different types of light and how it brightens our day. After going through the song, the teacher will ask the students: we have been learning all about lights, and we learned about natural lights and artificial lights. Will you help me figure out if some lights are natural or artificial? The teacher will show the students pictures of different types of lights and the students will help the teacher determine if it is natural or artificial.

· Group Goal For The Week: There are lights all around us. There are artificial lights and natural lights. These different types of lights help us see, have warmth, get around safely, make food, and more. Lights are important in every part of our lives.

· Literacy: - Letter of the week: o

· Click the link below to view “The Letter O” song. Encourage your child to watch the video and repeat the letter and the sound it makes, or try to sing along as best they can. Use the examples in the video to talk about the letter O and the sound it makes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NiGx53frScg

· Writing: - Letter of the week: O

· O is for Owl! Create an owl by tracing and cutting out a large O shape, along with 3 triangles for the arms and head. Encourage and help your child glue the cut-outs to make an owl. Encourage your student to draw eyes and a beak on the owl, and encourage them to practice saying the letter O, the sound it makes, and help them notice how Owl begins with letter O.

Art: Galaxy Art! For this art project, you will need black paper, glue, and different colored glitter or sparkles. Encourage your student to put glue all over the page in different shapes and places. Then help your student pour different glitter onto the page (be careful)! Once the glue and glitter has dried, you will have a beautiful artwork of a galaxy that belongs in outer space!

· Math: Traffic Light Sorting: Encourage or help your child draw a large traffic light with a red, yellow, and green light. Encourage your student to find things around the home that are these colors (toys, Legos, markers, etc.) Encourage your student to sort the materials according to color on the traffic light (red items on the red light, yellow items on the yellow light, etc.)

· Science: Create a glow in the dark sensory bottle! Using an empty water bottle and glow in the dark glow-sticks, bands, glue or manipulatives, encourage students to place water and their glow in the dark materials into the bottle. Encourage students to shake the bottle and describe what they notice. Turn off the lights and ask them what they notice now! Does it glow? What colors do you see? Discuss the differences between light and dark.

· Blocks: Skyline: Add pictures of the nighttime NYC skyline to the walls in the Blocks/Construction Center. Invite children to observe the lights in the picture and create additional buildings to add to the skyline.

Music & Movement: Light Table: Create a water xylophone. Fill small glass jars with various amounts of colored water and place them on the light table. Invite children to gently tap the sides of the jar with a spoon and listen to the different tones produced.

Social/ Emotional- Week to Review

This week, our social-emotional program will be focusing on managing anger. Click on the link below and scroll down to week 17 (page 17) to follow along with the social-emotional program this week.

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

Common Core Standards

· D1: 4c: Actively explores how things in the world work.

· D5: Science: 6: Acquires knowledge about the physical properties of the world.

· D4: Communication: 3: Demonstrates his/her ability to express ideas using a variety of methods.