THEME: Space Week 1 DATES: 03/02 - 03/05/2022

LTE: Daily Schedule / ECE Year Long Matrix - Targeted Skill / Social Emotional Matrix 19-20 / CAS: CDE standards

LITERACY ● How to Catch a Star Oliver Jeffers

BOOK CIRCLE ● Week 1
CAS Content Area: RWC ● Mercury The Smallest of All
GOLD Learning Domain: Literacy, Language
Assessment: GOLD 8-10, 15-19

SOCIAL SKILLS Targeted Unit Social Skills:

CAS Content Area: Comprehensive Health, Social Studies ● Social problem solving
GOLD Learning Domain: Social-Emotional, Social Studies ● Kindness
Assessment: GOLD 1-3, 8-10, 11-14 ● Sharing
● Mindful moment

PHONEMIC AWARENESS & ALPHABETIC Targeted Unit Language & Literacy: Alliteration; Print
has meaning/environmental print; Production of letter or
PRINCIPLE letter-like symbols
MAGIC/SECRET SOUND ● Z :-)
CAS Content Area: RWC
GOLD Learning Domain: Literacy, Cognitive, Language
Assessment: GOLD 8-10, 11-13, 15-19

TRANSITIONS Targeted Unit Concepts: Near/Far, New/Old, High/Low,

Rough/Smooth, Dead/Alive, Dark/Light, Night/Day
CAS Content Area: PE, RWC Targeted Unit Motor Concepts: Web Space & Arches;
GOLD Learning Domain: Physical, Language Bilateral Skills & Crossing Midline
Assessment: GOLD 4-7, 8-10 ● “Grab Bag” - choose the object, name
it, and then match it to the correct
picture (Space Vocabulary Match - Up)
● Motor cube

MUSIC & MOVEMENT ● Planet song

SONGS & FINGERPLAYS, NURSERY ● 3d shape song
RHYMES, CD/GENERATED MUSIC ● Hello song_look through the
CAS Content Area: Music, RWC
GOLD Learning/Domain: Physical, Language, The Arts window
Assessment: GOLD 4-7, 8-10, 15-19, 33-36 ● Educational Planet song
● The solar system song

PHYSICAL Targeted Unit Motor Skills: Web Spaces & Arches;

Bilateral Skills & Crossing Midline
OBSTACLE COURSE ● We are playing patty cake
CAS Content Area PE
● We are passing the planet behind
GOLD Learning Domain: Physical, Language, Literacy
our backs
Assessment: GOLD 4-7, 8-10, 17
● I am doing a windmill
 CENTERS
Dramatic Play: Art (The Arts):
[Content Area: Comprehensive Health, Social Studies, [Content Area: Visual Arts
Drama & Theater Arts Learning Domain: Physical, Literacy, The Arts
Learning Domain: Social-Emotional, Language, Assessment: GOLD 7, 19, 33]
Cognitive, The Arts ● Free Art cutting, gluing, writing ,
Assessment: GOLD 1-3, 8-10, 11-14, 24-28, 29. 31, 36]
painting, pattering etc.
●

Messy Table: Puzzles and Games:

[Content Area: Science, Math [Content Area: Mathematics, Visual Arts
Learning Domain: Cognitive, Math, Science Learning Domain: Physical, Cognitive, Math, The Arts
Assessment: GOLD 11-14, 20-23, 24-28] Assessment: GOLD 7, 11-14 , 20-23, 33]
● Big Floor Puzzles - Numbers
● Magnets in the Sensory Table ● Match- It Spelling
(magnetic and non-magnetic items ● Get Ready to Write - Gumball Grab
for children to explore. Fill the ● Solar System Puzzles
sensory table with rice or beans or
sand. Add colorful plastic pony
beads and add some magnetic
marbles, and colored metal paper
clips. Include magnet wands for
each child

Manips: Office:
[Content Area: Mathematics, Visual Arts [Content Area: RWC
Learning Domain: Physical, Cognitive, Math, The Arts Learning Domain: Physical, Literacy
Assessment: GOLD 7, 11-14 , 20-23, 33] Assessment: GOLD 7, 19]
● Early Math
● Number-bots ● tracing letters,numbers
● Clicks ● how to draw a rocket ship?
● ● coloring pages etc.

Blocks: Library:
[Content Area: Mathematics, Visual Arts [CAS Content Area: RWC
Learning Domain: Physical, Cognitive, Math, The Arts GOLD Learning Domain: Literacy, Cognitive, Language
Assessment: GOLD 7, 11-14 , 20-23, 33] Assessment: GOLD 8-10, 11-13, 15-19]
● Wooden blocks
● books
● Foam blocks
● Vehicles
● Peoples
Science: Music:
[Content Area: Science [Content Area: Music
Learning Domain: Cognitive, Science Learning Domain: Language, The Arts
Assessment: GOLD 11-14, 24-28] Assessment: GOLD 11-14, 24-28]
● Molecule kit ● Music instruments
● Children mixed primary-colored
water to make secondary colors.
The bucket in the middle was for
dumping the water when
finished, or to start over.
 SMALL GROUP LEARNING / TABLETOP

WEEK 1 03/02-03/05

THEME: Space

LTE: Daily Schedule Social Emotional Matrix 19-20 CAS: CDE standards

Monday: Large group activity (YAP, Young Athletes activity)

Blue table: Monica

Green Table: (Violetta)
Project (The Arts/reinforce unit
concepts)
AM: Hole punch Constellations
PM: Q - tip star art
Social Emotional
AM: Use puppet to demonstrate role playing:
Scenario: child taking away toy without asking.
Identify problem and how that would make you feel.
Draw a picture in student journals, describe picture
as teacher dictates student ideas.
PM: Show a video of a social problem. Discuss and
write about it in student journals. Teacher dictates
student ideas.
CAS Content Area: Comprehensive Health, Social
Studies
GOLD Learning Domain: Social-Emotional, Social
Studies
Assessment: GOLD 1-3, 8-10, 11-14

Red Table (Elizabeth/Lori) Blue Table: (Julia)

Sensory -Fine Motor Language (Language/Literacy)

S blends in space
AM: Alien goop bin & tongs - hair gel
with small stars in it, use tongs to grasp
stars

PM: Space name rockets - construction

paper, squares, triangles, tissue paper
streamers; have them cut out squares,
write 1 letter of their name on each
 square, glue squares together, 1 triangle
on top, streamers on the bottom

WEEK 2 03/09-03/11

THEME: Space

LTE: Daily Schedule Social Emotional Matrix 19-20 CAS: CDE standards

Green Table: (Violetta) Blue Table: Monica

Alphabetic principle
CAS Content Area: Letters in name recognition
Project (The Arts/reinforce unit GOLD Learning Domain: Literacy
concepts) Assessment: GOLD 16

AM: Matching letters

AM:Shape Space Shuttle (circle, Letter puzzles
rectangle, square, triangle) PM: Letter bingo, letter hunt, alphabet mystery box

Flexible grouping PM:

PM:Shape Space Shuttle
(cylinder, cone, hexagon and triangle) Fraouq

Ricardo

Deacon

Red Table (Elizabeth/Lori): Blue Table: ( Julia)

Sensory -Fine Motor -
Language (Language/literacy)
AM: Marble Painting Planets (black
background construction paper, white
Who’s that face in outer space - rhyming
cardstock circle, diff. colored paints,
marbles, box or bin) and riddles

PM: Marble Painting Planets (same

but have them cut out the circles)
 WEEK 3 03/23-03/26

THEME: Space

LTE: Daily Schedule Social Emotional Matrix 19-20 CAS: CDE standards

Monday: Large group activity (YAP, Young Athletes activity)

Blue table: Monica

Social Emotional
Green Table: (Violetta) AM: Read book about Llama time to share. DIscuss
and draw a picture, teacher dictates.
Project (The Arts/reinforce unit PM: Mindful moment, close eyes taste food item and
draw about what you think it was, teacher dictates
concepts) student ideas.
AM/PM: Read kindness, You will be my friend. Write in
journals about both topics.
AM CAS: SE
Bubbles GOLD Learning Domain: Social-Emotional, Social
Studies
Assessment: GOLD 1-3, 8-10, 11-14
PM
3D Moon Craft *
 Red Table (Elizabeth/Lori): Blue Table: ( Julia) Language
Sensory -Fine Motor - (Language/literacy)

AM: HWT color/shape task

PM: HWT Name template practice

* 3D Moon Craft

● Supplies:
● Flour
● White paint
● Mixing bowl
● Paper bowl
● Rounded objects such as spoons and bottle caps

Directions:

1. Stir together equal parts flour and white paint in a mixing bowl.
2. Turn the paper bowl upside down and coat the bowl with the flour mixture.
3. Use rounded objects such as spoons and bottle caps to make craters in the flour
mixture.
4. Allow the moon to dry for 4 to 6 hours.

END OF UNIT: Jr Astronaut Certificate

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