Troy Preschool: Schroeder 3’s, 4’s, & 5’s – Weekly Happenings: December 17th – December 21st

Description KDI’s
Greeting Monday: Approaches to Learning – initiative,
1. Sand and Water Table Area card with photograph of water, Toy Area and Book Area card with photograph of books, no symbol with Della, Declan, engagement, problem solving, reflection
Time Gloria, and Stella’s letter links, stated what would be out for the week and who would be absent
2. Water and snow written, photographs of students throwing and eating snow and photographs of students jumping in puddles, reviewed what we can Social/Emotional – sense of competence,
do with snow instead of eating it and throwing it, explained how that some of the snow has been melting and reviewed what we can do with water community, building relationships, moral
instead of jumping/splashing in it development
3. Items from home written, map of world, explained that people are bringing in items from home for us to use to have more of a home to school
connection and to expose one another to our cultures Physical/Health – fine-motor skills, body
awareness
Tuesday:
1. Rhyming words written, Leia’s letter link, replaced the beginning letter to make rhyming words Language/Literacy/Communication –
2. Map of United States and Bhavishya’s letter link, explained how Bhavishya would be going to California with her family comprehension, speaking, vocabulary,
3. Picture of sad face, students learned synonyms for the word sad (unhappy, sorrowful, blue, gloomy, etc.) phonological awareness, alphabetic
knowledge, reading, concepts about print,
Wednesday: book knowledge, writing
1. Photograph of a rhinoceros, a ring, a robot, and a rabbit, students stated that they all begin with the letter r, practiced making the r sound, made an
uppercase and lowercase r Mathematics – number words and symbols,
2. Picture of sad face, students reviewed synonyms for the word sad (unhappy, sorrowful, blue, gloomy, etc.), students discussed times in which counting, patterns
they’ve felt unhappy
3. Patterns written, complex patterns written (9, 9, 7, 7, etc. and 3, 2, 1, etc.), students completed the patterns Creative Arts – N/A

Thursday: Science/Technology – observing, classifying,

1. Pajama day written, photograph of people in pajamas and money, explained that people are donating money to a hospital for wearing their pajamas drawing conclusions, communicating ideas
to school
2. Winter celebration written, photograph of students at a party, explained that we would be having our party tomorrow morning Social Studies – community roles, decision
3. Map of United States and Manvikh’s letter link, explained how Manvikh would be going to Florida with his family making, geography, history

Friday:
1. No school written, drawing of Schroeder Elementary school with no symbol, explained we would be out of school for 2 weeks
2. Photograph of a monkey, a mouse, a rabbit, and a rhinoceros, students sorted the pictures by beginning sounds, practiced making the m sound and r
sound
3. It is raining written, drawing of rainclouds, Outside Time schedule sign with no symbol and Special Time schedule sign with word gym, explained
we who might have to go to the gym if it rains

*What did each morning: wrote their names, read/looked at books, sang Time to Put Books Away song, stated day of week, stated the weather, wrote numbers
10 – 12 on board stating number poems, stated who had jobs each day (identifying those by their letter links, the first letter in their name, and the beginning
sound of their name)*
Small  Students reviewed Lesson 2 of Writer’s Workshop. With this program students are told how they are going to be authors. Teachers demonstrated Approaches to Learning – initiative,
how they can draw/write something that they know about. Students learned the saying “When you say you’re done, you’ve just begun.” Teachers engagement, use of resources, reflection
Group
demonstrated how they can add more to their pictures. Also, they demonstrated how you can label drawings with letters. Afterwards, students
Time were dismissed to their tables, were given a piece of paper and writing utensils, thought of their stories, and began drawing/writing their stories. Social/Emotional – community, building
As they worked, teachers walked around learning what students were drawing/writing about and helping them to further their thinking. relationships, cooperative play

 Students were told that they were going to be making ornaments. Students mixed together glue, applesauce, and cinnamon to make dough. Physical/Health – fine-motor skills, body
Students rolled out the dough and used cookie cutters to make their ornaments. They chose from a star, a gingerbread man, a tree, or a bell. awareness

 Students were told that they were going to be scientists. Each student was given a cup with water. Then each student was given a piece of dial Language/Literacy/Communication –
soap. Students observed the soap using their senses. They were told that they were going to be placing it into the water to see what happens. comprehension, speaking, vocabulary,
Students made predictions, dropped it in the water, and stated what happened. Students found out that dial soap sinks. Then each student was phonological awareness, alphabetic
given a piece of ivory soap. Students observed the soap using their senses. They were told that they were going to be placing it into the water to knowledge, reading, concepts of print, book
see what happens. Students made predictions, dropped it into the water, and stated what happened. Students found out that the ivory soap floats. knowledge, writing
We explained how ivory soap has tiny pores that fill with air allowing it to float, just like how a life jacket is filled with air. Then we heated up the
soaps and saw how the ivory soap expanded much more than the dial. Mathematics – number words and symbols,
counting, measuring, unit
 Students painted a winter scene. Each student was provided with blue, white, and purple paint, students painted a piece of white paper with a paint
brush. Afterwards, students squirted glue over their picture. Then they sprinkled salt over the glue. Creative Arts – art
  N/A – winter celebration Science/Technology – observing,,
experimenting, drawing conclusions,
communicating ideas

Social Studies – decision making

Large Monday: Approaches to Learning – initiative,
Group  Easy to Join Activity – sang Come on Over and Sit Right Down song engagement
 Song Book taken out, Noella got to choose the song, sang I Wonder What Song She’ll Pick Today, chose the song Happy Birthday, sang Happy
Time Birthday to Noella, sang Here We Go Around the Birthday Girl as we walked in a circle around Noella, and sang Make a Wish and Blow Us Out as Social/Emotional – community, building
we pretended to be candles and as Noella pretended to blow us out, students pretended to bake a cake, Noella pretended to eat the cake relationships, cooperative play

Tuesday: Physical/Health – gross-motor skills, body

 Easy to Join Activity – sang Come on Over and Sit Right Down song awareness
 Song book taken out, students reviewed the song The Mittens on my Hands and Ten Little Snowflakes, students learned the song Jingle Bells
Language/Literacy/Communication –
Wednesday: comprehension, speaking, vocabulary,
 Easy to Join Activity – sang Come on Over and Sit Right Down song phonological awareness
 Song book taken out, students reviewed the song The Mittens on my Hands and Ten Little Snowflakes, students learned the song Jingle Bells
Mathematics – N/A
Thursday:
Creative Arts – music, movement, pretend
 Easy to Join Activity – sang Come on Over and Sit Right Down song
play
 Song book taken out, students reviewed the song The Mittens on my Hands and Ten Little Snowflakes, students learned the song Jingle Bells
Science/Technology – observing, drawing
Friday:
conclusions, communicating ideas
 N/A – winter celebration
Social Studies – decision making
Planning Mornings: Approaches to Learning – initiative, planning,
Time  Laid out area card chart, placed paper towel tube over areas, placed shapes down tube on areas where wanted to go play engagement
 Laid out area card chart, wrote first letter of first name underneath areas where wanted to go play
 Laid out area card chart, chose an animal and placed it on areas where wanted to go play Social/Emotional – building relationships
 Passed around square bean bag while saying poem Eeny, Meeny, Miny, Moe, when done student holding beanbag stated where wanted to go play
 Took turns lacing 3 dimensional shapes onto string to make a pattern, after lacing shape on stated where wanted to go play Physical/Health – fine-motor skills

Afternoons: Language/Literacy/Communication –
 Planning chart on back of door everyday, place area cards where want to go play behind own letter link comprehension, speaking, vocabulary,
concepts about print, writing

Mathematics – shapes, patterns

Creative Arts – pretend play

Science/Technology – communicating ideas

Social Studies – decision making, geography

Recall Mornings: Approaches to Learning –engagement,
Time  Letter links placed into container, teacher pulled letter link, students stated whose it was, that student spoke about where went and played reflection
 Laid out area card chart, looked at initials, discussed if went to the areas that planned on going to
 Students given a bucket, grabbed two items that played with and did a show and tell Social/Emotional – building relationships
 Teacher described a person at the table, the person described shared what did
 Took turns taking 3 dimensional shapes off string, after taking shape off shared what did Physical/Health – fine-motor skills

Afternoons: Language/Literacy/Communication –
 Scarves placed into container, teacher hid eyes as students pulled out and hid them, teacher stated a color, that student spoke about what did comprehension, speaking, vocabulary
 Laid out area card chart, chose a doll and placed it on areas where went and played
Mathematics – shapes
 Students picked whose turn it was go share where went and played by using pointer stick and stating each other’s names
 Students sat in a circle, rolled ball to one another, person that received ball shared what did
Creative Arts – art, pretend play
  Students drew a picture of what they did during work time
Science/Technology – drawing conclusions,
communicating ideas

Social Studies – geography, history

Other Literature: Approaches to Learning – initiative,
 Students spent time looking at books. They did this at greeting time, snack time, work time, rest time, outside time, afternoon snack time, and engagement, use of resources
afternoon work time.
Social/Emotional – sense of competence,
Sensory Table: community, building relationships,
 Inside the sensory table was water. cooperative play, moral development, conflict
resolution
Outside:
 While outside, students observed and explored the world. Students played on the swings, on the jungle gyms, on the slides, on the merry-go-round, Physical/Health – gross-motor skills, fine-
and in the sandbox. Some students played chase and catch. Some played hide and seek. Students are pretending to be villains and superheroes and motor skills, body awareness
are catching one another. Teachers are helping students to learn to swing by themselves by pumping their legs. Teachers are modeling how to do
this. Also, teachers are helping students go across the monkey bars. Students have been making snow angels, snowballs, and snowmen. Also, they Language/Literacy/Communication –
have been observing how water turns into ice when it’s cold and how ice melts and turns into water when it gets warm. comprehension, speaking, vocabulary,
phonological awareness, alphabetic
Work Time: knowledge, reading, concepts about print,
 Students are deciding who they want to play with and what they want to play with, with more detail. book knowledge
 Students are beginning to problem solve on their own and come to teachers if they need some help.
 Students are independent during their play and ask teachers to participate in their play with them. Mathematics – N/A
 Students are engaging in a lot of pretend play scenarios. Many are playing house and pretending to be restaurant owners, pets, firefighters, etc.
Creative Arts – art, pretend play
 Students are respecting one another by listening to each others thoughts and ideas.
Science/Technology – observing, drawing
conclusions, communicating ideas, natural and
physical world

Social Studies – community roles, decision

making, geography