WEEKLY REMOTE LEARNING PLANNING FORM ROOM # 10

WEEKOF: January 11th, 2021 TEACHER’S NAME: Diana 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: 1/11/21

Daily Focus: The teacher will review with the class that we are learning about water this month. The teacher and the class will review our “Water, Water Everywhere” song, and will go through each line and the movements of the song. The teacher will ask the students: “What is temperature?”. Temperature tells you how hot or cold something is. When it is winter, the temperature gets lower and it becomes colder outside. When it’s summer, the temperature gets higher. Does it get colder or hotter in the summer? Hotter! When the temperature gets higher, it gets hotter. Do you think water changes temperature? Teacher will invite students to share their thoughts and ideas. Yes! Water changes temperature. Just like when we drink some cold water or take a bath in hot water, the water is changing temperatures. This week, we are going to continue learning about what happens when water changes temperature.

Group Goal For The Week: Water is all around us. Water changes according to how hot or cold it is. When water is very hot, it can change to a gas or steam. When water is very cold it can change to ice. When water is room temperature, water stays in the form of a liquid. Water is also a big part of the weather water cycle. In the water cycle, the water changes it’s form according to temperature.

Literacy: Letter of the week: go 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, g.

Writing: Using a tray or a zip-lock bag filled with sand, rice, shaving gel, hair gel, or anything else that you have in your home - encourage your child to practice writing straight lines, curved lines, and even letters! You can provide your child with hand over hand support, and examples of lines, curves, and letters.

Art: Ice art! Using paint and ice, encourage your child to place some paint onto a piece of paper, and use the ice to spread it around. What happens to the ice? What happens to the paint?

Blocks: Provide students with pictures of snowflakes and cotton balls to use as snow. Show students pictures of winter landscapes and encourage them to build their own winter landscapes using blocks, cardboard boxes, legos, or anything you have available to you.

Dramatic Play: Pretend to be a captain of a boat! Encourage your student to use their imagination to pretend to be the captain on a boat and sail on the open ocean! Who is on your boat? Where are you going? Is it hard to sail on the ocean?

Math: Number of the week: 3 - Using any materials you have available to you, have the student count out 3 items, and glue them onto a piece of paper. (Cotton balls, stickers, pieces of paper). Encourage the student to practice counting out the nine items and writing the number 3.

Water/Sensory: Encourage students to use different materials when playing with water. Funnels, cups, bottles, squirting toys, etc.

TuesdayDate: 1/12/21

Daily Focus: The teacher will review with the class that we are learning about water this month. The teacher and the class will review our “Water, Water Everywhere” song, and will go through each line and the movements of the song. The teacher will ask the students: “Does water change temperature?” Yes! Water changes temperature and can become hot or cold. The teacher will show the students a cup of water. (Water will be room temperature) Do you think this water is hot or cold? The teacher will invite students to share their thoughts and ideas. Then, the teacher will invite students to feel the water. The class will discuss how the water is not hot, but not cold either. The teacher will help lead the discussion to include the idea that water can change shape when it changes temperature. And when water is at room temperature (a temperature that is not too hot and not too cold), it takes the form of liquid. Which is why we can drink it, pour it, and use it to wash ourselves. We will continue to learn about how water

Literacy: Letter of the week: go 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 g collage.

Writing: Draw some clouds on a piece of paper for your student. Encourage your

changes with temperature this week.

Group Goal For The Week: Water is all around us. Water changes according to how hot or cold it is. When water is very hot, it can change to a gas or steam. When water is very cold it can change to ice. When water is room temperature, water stays in the form of a liquid. Water is also a big part of the weather water cycle. In the water cycle, the water changes it’s form according to temperature.

student to draw circles to represent rain drops. If your student is not yet able to draw circles, draw them for your student. Then, encourage your student to draw straight lines and curved lines to connect the rain drops to the clouds. Encourage your student to identify which lines are straight and which are curved.

Art: Oil and water painting! Pour some watercolor paint into a bowl or dish. If you do not have watercolor paint, mix water and regular paint, or water and food coloring. Then, add some droplets of oil into the dish. Do not mix! Help your students dip their piece of paper face down into the dish, and slowly lift it up to reveal a beautiful pattern! Wait for it to dry to explore what happened with the paint and the oil.

Math: Fishbowl Counting! Print out an

outline of a fish bowl or use a sketch of a fishbowl. Give your student goldfish or cut outs of small fish. Show your student a number, have them identify that number, then place that amount of fish or goldfish in the bowl. Repeat this process by showing your student different numbers and having them practice their counting skills by placing that many fish in the bowl

Science: Which Holds More? Supply two containers, one that is tall and thin and one that is short and wide. Invite children to consider which container will hold more water. Fill the container the children think will hold more, and then pour it into the container the children think will hold less. Discuss the results.

Dramatic Play: Pretend to work in a laundromat! Provide your student with boxes and any other materials you have so they can pretend to work in a laundromat. . Use cardboard boxes to create washers and dryers; add clothing, empty bottles of detergent and pretend money for children to use at the laundromat. Invite them to do the laundry and talk about the role water plays in cleaning clothes. If desired, children can design and set up the laundromat scene. Invite them to do the laundry and talk about the role water plays in cleaning clothes.

Music & Movement: Water Xylophone: Create a water xylophone. Fill small glasses or jars with various amounts of water. Invite children to gently

tap the sides of the jar with a spoon and listen to the different tones produced.

WednesdayDate: 1/13/21

Daily Focus: The teacher will review with the class that we are learning about water this month. The teacher and the class will review our “Water, Water Everywhere” song, and will go through each line and the movements of the song. The teacher will ask the students: “Does water change temperature?” Yes! Water changes temperature, and it can even change form when it changes temperature! Yesterday, we learned that when water is at room temperature (a temperature that is not too hot and not too cold), water stays in a liquid form. What do you think happens when water’s temperature gets higher and it gets hotter? The teacher will invite the students to share their thoughts and ideas. The teacher will invite the students to look at picture of a boiling tea kettle, a hot cup with steam, and a hot pot on the stove with steam. The teacher will invite the students to notice what is the same in all of these pictures. The teacher will lead the students to notice how there is steam in all of these pictures. This is called evaporation. What a big word! That means that when water’s temperature gets higher, it changes form to a gas that looks like steam. The teacher will invite the students to share times where they have seen water evaporating into a gas. The teacher will tell the students that they will continue learning about what happens when water changes temperature all week long.

Group Goal For The Week: Water is all around us. Water changes according to how hot or cold it is. When

Literacy: Letter of the week: go Encourage the student to find items

around the classroom, home, or community, that begin with the letter g (grapes, glasses, girl, etc.)

Writing: Write down the letter g (letter of the week) in large clear handwriting on a piece of paper. Encourage your student to use any materials you can find at home (q-tips, cotton, paperclips, playdoh, etc.) to trace the letter with the items and/or glue them onto the letter.

water is very hot, it can change to a gas or steam. When water is very cold it can change to ice. When water is room temperature, water stays in the form of a liquid. Water is also a big part of the weather water cycle. In the water cycle, the water changes it’s form according to temperature.

Art: Paper Plate Snowflakes. Take a white paper plate and encourage your student to colors it as they wish. You can use any materials you have at home. Then, help your child by folding the paper plate in half, then in half again, and half again. If you find that the paper plate is too thick, then you can fold it in half as many times as you think is manageable. Then, encourage your students to cut out shapes of the folded plate. Provide support for your child as needed when they are cutting. After cutting out some shapes of the folded paper plate, unfold the plate to reveal a unique snowflake!

Blocks: Show students some pictures of bodies of water, including some local bodies of water such as the Hudson River, Atlantic Ocean, etc., as well as an assortment of boats. Pretend the center is a river, lake or ocean, and invite students to create their own

boats.

Math: Rain Chains! Using a print outs of clouds, or a few sketches of clouds, encourage your child to cut out the clouds, or offer them support when cutting. Write a number on each of the clouds. Encourage your student to use chain links or paper clips to attach the same number of links to the cloud as the number on the top of the cloud. Encourage your student to count out the chains and identify the numbers.

Science: Hot and Cold Air Experiment! You will need an empty plastic bottle, a balloon, two bowls (one filled with hot water and the other filled with ice and cold water). Cut the bottom of the bottle off. Place the balloon on the top of the bottle, then place it in the hot water, then in the cold water. What happens

to the balloon? Encourage your student to notice what happens. The balloon should get bigger in the hot water and should get smaller in the cold water/ice.

Water/Sensory: Baby Bath: Add child-friendly soap to the water in a bowl, bucket or tub, as well as baby dolls and washcloths. Invite children to bathe the babies and talk about how people use water to stay clean.

ThursdayDate: 1/14/21

Daily Focus: The teacher will review with the class that we are learning about water this month. The teacher and the class will review our “Water, Water Everywhere” song, and will go through each line and the movements of the song. The teacher will ask the students: does water change temperature? Yes! When water changes temperature, it can get hotter and it can get colder. When water gets really hot or really cold, it can even

Literacy: Letter of the week: gMystery 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.

change form. We learned that when water is room temperature (not too hot or not too cold) it takes the liquid form. Yesterday, we learned that when water’s temperature gets really hot, it changes to a gas or steam. What do you think happens when water’s temperature gets really cold? The teacher will invite the students to share their thoughts and ideas. The teacher will help lead the discussion to talk about how water gets cold and changes to ice. Using visuals, the teacher will invite the students to discuss where and how they have seen and used ice before. The teacher will invite the students to share their experiences of how ice feels, tastes, and looks. The teacher will close the lesson by reminding the students that they will continue to learn all about water and what happens when it changes temperature.

Group Goal For The Week: Water is all around us. Water changes according to how hot or cold it is. When water is very hot, it can change to a gas or steam. When water is very cold it can change to ice. When water is room temperature, water stays in the form of a liquid. Water is also a big part of the weather water cycle. In the water cycle, the water changes it’s form according to temperature.

Writing: Today, we learned about how water evaporates and changes into a gas in hot temperatures. Scroll down to find a print out of a cup of hot chocolate. If you do not have a printer, sketch a cup of hot chocolate and invite your student to color it in. Encourage the students to draw curved lines coming out of the cup to represent the hot water evaporating. Support your student with hand over hand support if needed. You can also provide them with curved lines to trace. Practicing drawing curved lines will help work up their skills to eventually completing letters and numbers!

Art: Melting Snowman! Cut pieces of white paper into small squares. Encourage your

student to cut out two brown long rectangles (for arms), two large black circles (for eyes), one orange triangle (for nose), and 3-5 black circles (for buttons). Encourage your student to glue the cut-outs onto another piece of paper to create a melting snowman.

Blocks: provide students with a container or bowl of water. Encourage students to use the bowl of water as a body of water, and build bridges and tunnels and boats to get across the water.

Math: More or Less Game. Using any toys you may have at home, (preferably some fish/shark/ocean animal toys), place some toys in 2 bowls of water. Encourage your student to count the toys in each bowl and determine which bowl has less and which has more. Add more and take out toys to keep practicing this counting and less/more

skill.

Dramatic Play: Pretending to be at the beach! Add materials you have available to you to make a beach. Create a place for children to pretend they are playing in the sand and an area for them to pretend to swim and play in the water. Add beach chairs, towels, toys for building sand castles and playing in the water, and a picnic basket or cooler of pretend food so children can pretend to spend a day at the beach. If desired, children can design and set up the beach scene. Encourage students to help clean up the beach by cleaning up all materials.

Outdoor Play: Icicle Hunt: Invite children to hunt for icicles outside and count how many they find. Note that children should not try to collect the icicles

FridayDate: 1/15/21

Daily Focus: The teacher will review with the class that we are learning about water this month. The teacher and the class will review our “Water, Water Everywhere” song, and will go through each line and the movements of the song. The teacher will ask the students: What happens when water changes temperature? The teacher will help lead the students to discuss and review what we learned this week about how water changes with temperature. The class will review what happens when water is at a very hot temperature, a very cold temperature, and at room temperature. The teacher will use this information to lead to the topic of the water cycle. Using visuals, the teacher will introduce the water cycle to the students and will discuss how water and weather changes with the water cycle. The class will go through each step of the water cycle and will relate it back to what they previously learned about how water changes form when temperature changes.

Group Goal For The Week: Water is all around us. Water changes according to how hot or cold it is. When water is very hot, it can change to a gas or steam. When water is very cold it can change to ice. When water is room temperature, water stays in the form of a liquid. Water is also a big part of the weather water cycle. In the water cycle, the water changes it’s form according to temperature.

Literacy: Letter of the week: go Click the link below to view “The

Letter G” 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 G and the sound it makes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAFdsUMVcJ4

Writing: Using tape or strips of paper, encourage your student to create shapes. How many shapes can you create? Help your child by providing them with guidance and picture examples of different shapes.

Art: Rain and wind art! Using a piece of paper, a droplet, blue paint, and a straw. Help your student use the droplet to collect blue paint. Encourage them to place drops of blue paint onto another piece of paper. Then, encourage your student to use a straw to blow the drops of paint around the paper to create a beautiful piece of art made out of paint and wind. Encourage your student to think about how the wind pushes water around outside.

Math: Number of the week: 3 - Using a print out of an umbrella, or a sketch of an umbrella, write the number 3 in the middle of the umbrella. Encourage your student to draw raindrops (3 for the number of the week), or glue items that resemble raindrops. Encourage your student to count the number of raindrops they made and review the number of the week.

Science: Rainbow Walking Water! For this experiment, you will need 4-6 cups, water, 6 pieces of paper towels, and 4-6 colors of food coloring. If you do not have food coloring, simply mix some paint and some water together. Using 4-6 different colors and water, make 4-6 cups of different colored water. Then, roll up 6 slices of paper towels to create a ring of paper towels. Then, encourage your student to think about what will happen when you place the paper towels in the water. Next, help them place the paper towels in each cup of water so that the paper towels are going in and out of each cup (see picture below). In some time, the paper towels will begin to absorb the colors and make a rainbow!

Blocks: provide students with a container or bowl of water. Encourage students to use the

bowl of water as a body of water, and build bridges and tunnels and boats to get across the water.

Water/Sensory: Create a pond! Using materials you may have at home or can find outside, encourage your child to create a pond by adding sticks, rocks, small plants, and/or toys to create a water in a bowl or container. Encourage your student to play with and explore in their pond and think about who may live in a pond.

Social/ Emotional- Week to ReviewThis week, our social-emotional program will be focusing on “strong feelings”. Click on the link below and scroll down to week 14 (page 14) 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.