WEEKLY REMOTE LEARNING PLANNING FORM ROOM #_23_

WEEKOF: 12/21 - 12/23 TEACHER’S NAME: Nelly S.

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]

Monday

Date: 12/21

Just like us animals need homes also. We are going to learn about where birds live. Birds live in nests which they create themselves using mud, twigs and leaves.

Writing- Writing folders/word of the day: BIRD/NEST

Art- Children will be encouraged to create bird nests.

Literacy- Our special letter of the week: /z/. Children will use books to identify words that begin with our special letter.

Dramatic Play- Encourage children to act out the different people in their family.

Math- Number of the week: 9. Children will practice counting objects and 1:1 correspondence with numbers 1-9.

Blocks- Encourage children to build a nest using blocks and add other materials. Build homes for humans and encourage children to notice the difference between the animal homes and our homes.

Science- Provide children with picture of animals that live in a home (pets) and wild animals. Have children sort these animals within those two groups.

Table top- Encourage children to create a nest, birds, and eggs using playdoe.

Sensory- What color did you find in the sand?

Tuesday

Date: 12/22

Today the children are going to learn about bees and their homes. Bees live in bee hives. Bees collect pollen from flowers and bring it back to their hive to make honey. Bee hives are located up high in trees.

Writing- Word of the day: BEE HIVE. Encourage children to write down names of different animals.

Art- Children will be encouraged to create bee hives.

Literacy- Our special letter of the week: /z/. Children will use books to identify words that begin with our special letter.

Dramatic Play- Pretend being a bee and make honey. Encourage children to follow a recipe and make something with honey.

Math- Encourage students to create simple ABA patters using 2 colors. (using colored construction paper, color stickers, pom poms, leggos…)

Science- Provide children with picture of animals that live in a home (pets) and wild animals. Have children sort these animals within those two groups.

Blocks- Encourage students to build a beehive. How is it different from our homes? Is there anything the same?

Sensory- Add different items into a water bin, encourage children to fish out the items and sort them by color.

Wednesday

Date: 12/23

Today the children will learn about bears and their homes. Bears live in caves. They hibernate (sleep) in their homes: caves until winter ends.

Writing- Word of the day: BEAR/CAVE. Encourage children to draw a picture of their favorite animal and name them.

Art- Children will be encouraged to create bear caves

Literacy- Our special letter of the week: /z/. Using dot art, they will search for the special letter on a mixed worksheet

Dramatic Play- Pretend being a bear, what are some foods you will eat before going into hibernation? Make your favorite foods.

Math- Number of the week: 9. Children will practice counting objects and 1:1 correspondence with numbers 1-9.

Science- Provide children with picture of animals that live in a home (pets) and wild animals. Have children sort these animals within those two groups.

Blocks- Build a cave for the bears to hibernate

Table top- Encourage children to create bears and caves out of playdoe.

Sensory- What color did you find in the sand?

Thursday

Date: 12/24

NO SCHOOL

Friday

Date: 12/25

NO SCHOOL

Social/ Emotional

Day/Week

(12/21-12/25) Week 13: We feel feelings in our body

Monday

12/21

Preform puppet script: The girl puppet feels worried because one of her friends is not at school. She talks to the teacher because her worrying makes her feel uncomfortable and talking to the teacher helps

Introduce Words for this week: Worried and Uncomfortable feelings

Song: Feelings In My Body (track 16)

Brain Builder: Play the Shape Shifter game-

Play with the size and shape of your body by:

· curling into a ball,

· stretching up tall,

· reaching out wide with your arms,

· reaching down to touch the floor

Have students try to move their bodies and hold the position once they get there. May be best played as a freeze dance game and when the music stops, they must copy and hold the position you are in with your body. Then you can say “shape shifter” and start the music. When the music goes off again strike a new pose for them to copy.

Tuesday

12/22

Story & Discussion: Use the picture on the poster to share a visual of the story that you are discussing with students. Today's story is about Michael and he is feeling worried because his grandma was supposed to pick him up from school and she is running late. Review how our body can feel and how uncomfortable those feelings can be when we are worried. Review how just like our girl puppet Michael talks to his teacher and it helps he feel a little better.

Wednesday 12/23

Skill Building Activity #1: 

1. Introduce the game. We’re going to use our Feelings Cards again today. We will think about which feelings make our bodies comfortable and which ones make them uncomfortable.

2. Go through each card. Have children show the feeling on each card with their faces and bodies.

3. Have them notice how their bodies are feeling and give a thumbs-up if the feeling is comfortable and a thumbs-down if it’s uncomfortable.

4. Discuss which parts of their bodies feel comfortable or uncomfortable.

Thursday

12/24

Skill Building Activity #2: 

· Use Boy and Girl Puppet to help model as a child’s response.

· When we feel feelings like being worried it can be very uncomfortable. When we feel worried or other uncomfortable feelings, we have been learning that it can be helpful to talk to people about how we are feeling.

· Start with Boy Puppet and ask him “who he would tell if he were worried at school” – a teacher.

· Go around to each of your students and ask, “who they would tell if he were worried at school?” – reinforce answers that name an adult, a teacher, or parent.

· Next use the Girl Puppet, tell the girl puppet that we just heard from our friends who they would talk to at school and a lot of them said their teacher like Boy puppet.

· But what about at home ask Girl Puppet “who she would tell if she were worried at home” – grandma she lives with me and I like to talk to my grandma she gives me hugs and that helps.

· Go around to each of your students and ask, “who they would tell if he were worried at home?” – reinforce answers that name an adult, a parent, grandparent, aunt, or uncle, or a teacher.

· Reinforce this message: It is always important to tell a grown-up if you are worried about something. Tell a grown-up if your tummy hurts.

Friday

12/25

Read Aloud related to SE topic: A Feel Better Book For Little Worriers

https://www.getepic.com/app/read/72633