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Frog Street Pre-K LESSON PLANNER                                                    Wonderful Word of the Week

                                                                                                                            Theme 5: Creative Me                                                                                            creative

         Week 4: My Art Is Me                                                                                         

 

Haile

Day 1   1/27

Day 2   1/28

Day 3  1/29

Day 4   1/30

Day 5   1/31

Greeting Circle

II.A.1., II.A.6., II.B.2., II.B.6., IX.B.1.

                    Unite: Sing “This Old Man Is Rockin’ On” and “Let’s Celebrate”                        Calm: S.T.A.R. Leader’s choice

                    Connect: “Guess What I’m Drawing”                                                                      Commit: Choose daily agreement to keep classroom safe

Morning Message III.B.3., III.C.2., IV.B.6., IV.C.1., IV.C.2., IV.C.3., IV.E.2., IV.E.3., IV.E.4.  Introduce /Qu, qu/ Number 10, sight words yellow , big

Daily Sentence

Which colors could you paint an elephant?  /e/

Would you roll red play dough to make olives? /o/

What would you put in a beautiful box? /ks/

An octopus has eight long legs. /o/

I painted an egg with purple paint. /e/

Phonological Awareness

Recognize alliteration

Concepts of Print

Spaces between words; end punctuation

Alphabet Knowledge

Associate letters with sounds: /e/ Ee, /o/ Oo, /ks/ Xx

Music and Movement

I.C.1., I.D.2., IX.B.1., IX.B.2., X.A.2.

Choose from these songs for the week: “At the Easel,” “Rainbow Dancers,” “The Numeral Dance,” “A & E,”  and “Refrigerator Picture”

Read-Aloud #1

II.B.3., II.B.4., III.D.2., IV.A.1., IV.D.2., IV.D.5., IV.D.11., IV.D.13.

The Dot

1st read of book

Dot Drawings

Explore making artwork with dots (pointillism)

Encouragement

Identify character’s word of encouragement in story

Start with a Mark

Discuss how a “baby step” can help start a project

Polar Bear in a Snowstorm

Examine story’s creative word choices and humor

Literacy Small Groups

III.B.5., III.D.2., III.D.3., III.E.7., IV.B.5., IV.B.6., V.B.1., V.C.1., V.C.3.

Vocabulary

Reinforce vocabulary: creative, potter, sculpt

Phonological Awareness

Produce rhyming words; identify alliterative words

Shared Writing

Create class recipe
for cookies

Guided Writing

Create Art Show invitation

Alphabet Knowledge

Associate sounds with letters: /ĕ/ Ee, /ŏ/ Oo, /ks/ Xx

Math

Positional words

I.B.2., VI.A.3., VI.A.6., VI.A.9., VI.F.3.

Lesson 14

I can follow positional words

Lesson 15 

I can follow positional words

Number 10

Write number 10

Lesson 16

Positional words

Lesson 17

Positional words

Read-Aloud #2

I.B.5., I.D.1., III.D.2., iII.D.4., III.E.5., IV.D.8., IV.D.5., V.B.1.

What Will You Create?

1st read of book

Sculpting

Pantomime actions that could be used to sculpt play dough

How Are You Creative?

Compare creativity in the story with classroom activities

Read a Recipe

Notice that words are used to create recipes, lists, and stories

Write a Creative Story

Write a short, creative story together with children

Practice Centers

III.A.3., III.B.1., III.B.2., III.B.5., V.A.1., V.C.1., V.C.3., IX.A.1., IX.A.2., IX.A.3., IX.C.2., X.A.1., X.A.2., X.C.2.

Teachers Table- ESGI assessments                         Table 2-     Alphabet arc                                                 Table 3-                    Trace alphabet                               Table 5-  Alphabet quiz

Heggerty

I.D.2., VII.A.1., IX.A.1., IX.A.2., IX.B.2., X.A.2.

Letter Naming, Rhyme repetition, Onset Fluency, Blending Phonemes, Identifying medial sounds, Segmenting phonemes, Adding Phonemes, Deleting phonemes, Substituting phonemes. Language awareness

STEAM

Frog-E the Dancer

I.B.6., I.D.2., VI.A.4., VI.C.4., VII.A.3.,X.B.2., XI.A.1., XI.A.2., XI.A.3.

Present the Problem

How can we choreograph a dance and teach it to Frog-E?

Days 2-4: Explore

Share Discoveries

Closing Circle

I.B.4., II.A.5., III.B.1., III.B.2., III.B.3.

Review & Reflect

Send home “My Art Is Me”  family letter