Plans for Monday, January 19, 2015
By: Julie Eguia
Prekindergarten
Learning Standards:
[Integrated] Child takes care of and manages classroom materials.[b]
[Integrated] Child sustains attention to personally chosen or routine tasks until they are completed.[a]
[Integrated] Child uses a wide variety of words to label and describe people, places, things, and actions.[1]
[Integrated] Child uses a large speaking vocabulary, adding several new words daily.[4]
[Integrated] Child combines onset and rime to form familiar onesyllable words without pictorial support.[9]
[Integrated] Child names at least 20 upper and at least 20 lower case letters.[1]
[Integrated] Child recognizes at least 20 letter sounds.[2]
[Integrated] Child uses information learned from books by describing, relating, categorizing, or comparing and contrasting.[2]
[Integrated] Child asks and answers appropriate questions about the book.[3]
[Integrated] Child intentionally uses scribbles/writing to convey meaning.[1]
[Integrated] Child writes own name (first name or frequent nickname), not necessarily with full correct spelling or wellformed letters.[2]
[Integrated] Child uses some appropriate writing conventions when writing or giving dictation.[1]
[Integrated] Child counts 1-10 items, with one count per item.[3]
[Integrated] Child counts up to 10 items, and demonstrates that the last count indicates how many items were counted.[5]
[Integrated] Child describes, observes, and investigates properties and characteristics of common objects.[1]
[Integrated] Child recognizes and compares heights or lengths of people or objects.[1]
[Integrated] Child identifies similarities and differences in characteristics of people.[1]
[Integrated] Child uses a variety of art materials and activities for sensory experience and exploration.[1]
[Integrated] Child creates or recreates stories, moods, or experiences through dramatic representations.[1]
Lesson Plans for week of 1/19/15 - 1/23/15.
Guidelines are the same throughout the week.
Unit 4 - Let's Investigate - Wk. 3
TEKS:
This week Children will continue to measure and sort objects. They will build
towers from blocks and look at rocks with a hand lens. Children will learn more
about how to be good listeners. After they talk about what it might like to be
very big or very small, they will pretend to shrink or grow. They will also learn
about Martin Luther King Jr. and his contributions.
Learning Objectives:
We will...participate in Circle Time activities daily.
We will learn about Martin Luther King Jr. and his contributions.
We will Listen to nursery rhymes, counting songs, and shape songs on the
Promethean Board.
We will compare the lengths of objects.
We will match capital letters and lowercase letters.
We will use food to make prints.
We will learn about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
We will create an arts and craft activity to better understand Dr. Martin Luther
King Jr.
We will build towers and describe them.
We will write about what children's dream for a better world.
We will pretend to hunt for rocks.
Technology:
We will use the Promethean Board to listen to letters and their sounds, nursery
rhymes, and counting and shape songs.
We will also listen to Winter songs, poems, and chants.
Academic Language/Key Vocabulary:
Freedom, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., dream, equality, march, peace, long, short,
cubes, tower, rocks, fruits, vegetables, compare, height, sort, smooth, rough,
texture, alike different, length, opposite
Lesson Activities (Which include opening activity, direct teach,
critical writing, and small group talk)
We will participate in Circle time activities daily, as well as,Physical Education
activities.
We will participate in the Content Areas and Center activities once a week or as
needed.
Circle time: Children will go over calendar, days of the week, months
of the year, weather, counting, numbers, shapes, alphabet, letter
sounds, and daily news. They will also sing theme songs and class
songs, finger plays and chants and go over nursery rhymes and
rhyming words. They will also listen to stories.
Physical Education: Children will participate in activities that demonstrate
coordination and balance.
Science: Children will use compare the length of objects. p. 220 Children will
also hunt for rocks and use a hand lens to be able to compare them.
Social Studies: Children will learn about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and his
contributions.
Fine Arts: Children will create a handprint activity to enhance and better
understand the lesson on Dr. King.
Creativity Center: Children will create prints using fruits and
vegetables.
ABC Center: Children will create a book on Dr. King.
Library and Listening Center: Children will learn how people
celebrate different holidays. (Martin Luther King Day)
Construction Center: Children will build towers using blocks and
then describe them.
Writer's Center: Children will write about what they wish for to make this a
better world for them.
Pretend and Learn Center: Children will pretend to hunt for rocks.
Essential Questions for Rigor and Relevance:
1. How can I compare things.
2. How long is this object?
3. Which object is longer?
4. What is a hand lens?
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8.
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10.
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What does a hand lens do?
Which rocks are smooth?
Which rocks are rough?
Who is Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.?
What are his contributions?
What is your dream to make it a better world?
what vegetable makes this print?
Closing Activity (Formative/Summative Assessment)
I will...review what has been taught and reteach where necessary.
I will ask questions and check for understanding.
Differentiation
I will have small group instruction.
I will model activities.
I will repeat instructions when necessary.
I will write anecdotal notes where necessary.
Lesson Plan for the week of January 19-23, 2015
We will use the same guidelines throughout the week.
Lesson Plan for Math/ELR
Unit 3: Let's Investigate
TEKS: How can I compare things?
This week children will continue to measure and sort objects. They will build towers from blocks and look at rocks with a hand
lens. Children will learn more about how to be good listeners. After they talk about what it might be like to be very big or very
small, they will pretend to shrink or grow.
Learning Objectives:
We will...listen to "Nature Spy".
We will...learn and listen to a story about Martin Luther King.
We will...identify the Letter Nn, Kk.
We will ... idenitfy things that start with the letter Nn, Kk.
We will...learn about how we can learn from other family members.
We will...count 0-10.
We will...identify number 0-9.
We will...learn what a detective does.
We will...learn what is a scale used for.
We will...learn how to compare numbers and find out which number is bigger.
Technology:Promethean Board: Letter song, shape song, number song,
nursery rhymes, calendar, nursery rhymes,
Academic Language/Key Vocabulary:
closer, nature, curious, outside, discover, spy, answer, height,
question, compare, higher, fewer, learn
Center Rotation: center time includes teacher guided activities and
independent activities.
Lesson Activities (Which include opening activity, direct teach, critical writing,
and small group talk)
Math: students will create towers with cubes and determine which number is
bigger (teacher will instruct students to create different towers and give them a
number card so that they can see their number for the towers).
ELR: students will learn the letter Nn, Kk and identify objects that begin
with the letter Nn and Kk. Students will create a Martin Luther King
booklet.
Essential Questions for Rigor and Relevance
What are numbers?
How can we compare numbers and determine which one is bigger?
Why are letters important?
What sounds does the letter Nn, Kk?
Can we all be detectives?
Can you name things that start with the letter Nn,Kk?
What kind of lines do the letters Nn and Kk?
Why is it important to know letters?
Does anyone start with the letter N and K in our classroom?
Closing Activity (Formative/Summative Assessment)
anecdotal notes
I will...review letter/sound Nn amd Kk.
We will count 1-9.
We will discuss what it means to compare.
Differentiation:
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read directions aloud, restate and clarify directions, have students
repeat directions back to teacher
work in small group/one-to-one with teacher
extended time on tasks
provide work samples as model
use timer to cue students time to wrap up, so we can change
centers
Plans for Tuesday, January 20, 2015
By: Julie Eguia
Prekindergarten
Lesson Plan for the week of January 19-23, 2015
We will use the same guidelines throughout the week.
Lesson Plan for Math/ELR
Unit 3: Let's Investigate
TEKS: How can I compare things?
This week children will continue to measure and sort objects. They will build towers from blocks and look at rocks with a hand
lens. Children will learn more about how to be good listeners. After they talk about what it might be like to be very big or very
small, they will pretend to shrink or grow.
Learning Objectives:
We will...listen to "Nature Spy".
We will...identify the Letter Nn, Kk.
We will ... idenitfy things that start with the letter Nn, Kk.
We will...learn about how we can learn from other family members.
We will...count 0-10.
We will...identify number 0-9.
We will...learn what a detective does.
We will...learn how to measure items using a 12 inch piece of yarn.
We will...learn how to compare numbers and find out which number is bigger.
Technology:Promethean Board: Letter song, shape song, number song,
nursery rhymes, calendar, nursery rhymes,
Academic Language/Key Vocabulary:
closer, nature, curious, outside, discover, spy, answer, height,
question, compare, higher, fewer, learn, longer, length,
shorter, arm same
Center Rotation: center time includes teacher guided activities and
independent activities.
Lesson Activities (Which include opening activity, direct teach, critical writing,
and small group talk)
Math: students will compare length using a piece of string and practice
measuring items around the classroom. Students will then draw a picture of the
items and glue the string on the paper to show what they had measured.
ELR: students will continue to work on learning the letters Nn,
Kk.Students will practice making the right formation on the letters Nn, Kk
on dry erase board.
Essential Questions for Rigor and Relevance
What are numbers?
How can we compare numbers and determine which one is bigger?
Why are letters important?
What sounds does the letter Nn, Kk?
Can we all be detectives?
Can you name things that start with the letter Nn,Kk?
What kind of lines do the letters Nn and Kk?
Why is it important to know letters?
Does anyone start with the letter N and K in our classroom?
Closing Activity (Formative/Summative Assessment)
anecdotal notes
I will...review letter/sound Nn amd Kk.
We will count 1-9.
We will discuss what it means to compare.
Differentiation:
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read directions aloud, restate and clarify directions, have students
repeat directions back to teacher
work in small group/one-to-one with teacher
extended time on tasks
provide work samples as model
use timer to cue students time to wrap up, so we can change center
Plans for Wednesday, January 21, 2015
By: Julie Eguia
Prekindergarten
Lesson Plan for the week of January 19-23, 2015
We will use the same guidelines throughout the week.
Lesson Plan for Math/ELR
Unit 3: Let's Investigate
TEKS: How can I compare things?
This week children will continue to measure and sort objects. They will build towers from blocks and look at rocks with a hand
lens. Children will learn more about how to be good listeners. After they talk about what it might be like to be very big or very
small, they will pretend to shrink or grow.
Learning Objectives:
We will...listen to "Nature Spy".
We will...identify the Letter Nn, Kk.
We will ... idenitfy things that start with the letter Nn, Kk.
We will...learn about how we can learn from other family members.
We will...count 0-10.
We will...identify number 0-9.
We will...learn what a detective does.
We will...learn how to measure items using a 12 inch piece of yarn.
We will...learn to measure length and compare height.
We will...learn how to compare numbers and find out which number is bigger.
Technology:Promethean Board: Letter song, shape song, number song,
nursery rhymes, calendar, nursery rhymes,
Academic Language/Key Vocabulary:
closer, nature, curious, outside, discover, spy, answer, height,
question, compare, higher, fewer, learn, longer, length,
shorter, arm same, smooth, tools, rough
Center Rotation: center time includes teacher guided activities and
independent activities.
Lesson Activities (Which include opening activity, direct teach, critical writing,
and small group talk)
Math: students will measure each other with cut out mittens to see who is taller
in the groups.
ELR: students will continue to work on learning the letters Nn, Kk.
Students will work on the letter K puppet and practice on the sounds.
What are numbers?
How can we compare numbers and determine which one is bigger?
Why are letters important?
What sounds does the letter Nn, Kk?
Can we all be detectives?
Can you name things that start with the letter Nn,Kk?
What kind of lines do the letters Nn and Kk?
Why is it important to know letters?
Does anyone start with the letter N and K in our classroom?
Closing Activity (Formative/Summative Assessment)
anecdotal notes
I will...review letter/sound Nn amd Kk.
We will count 1-9.
We will discuss what it means to compare.
Differentiation:
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read directions aloud, restate and clarify directions, have students
repeat directions back to teacher
work in small group/one-to-one with teacher
extended time on tasks
provide work samples as model
use timer to cue students time to wrap up, so we can change center
Plans for Thursday, January 22, 2015
By: Julie Eguia
Prekindergarten
Lesson Plan for the week of January 19-23, 2015
We will use the same guidelines throughout the week.
Lesson Plan for Math/ELR
Unit 3: Let's Investigate
TEKS: How can I compare things?
This week children will continue to measure and sort objects. They will build towers from blocks and look at rocks with a hand
lens. Children will learn more about how to be good listeners. After they talk about what it might be like to be very big or very
small, they will pretend to shrink or grow.
Learning Objectives:
We will...listen to "Nature Spy".
We will...identify the Letter Nn, Kk.
We will ... idenitfy things that start with the letter Nn, Kk.
We will...learn about how we can learn from other family members.
We will...count 0-10.
We will...identify number 0-9.
We will...learn what a detective does.
We will...learn how to measure items using a 12 inch piece of yarn.
We will...learn to measure length and compare height.
We will...learn how to compare numbers and find out which number is bigger.
Technology:Promethean Board: Letter song, shape song, number song,
nursery rhymes, calendar, nursery rhymes,
Academic Language/Key Vocabulary:
closer, nature, curious, outside, discover, spy, answer, height,
question, compare, higher, fewer, learn, longer, length,
shorter, arm same, smooth, tools, rough, order, before,
objects, after
Center Rotation: center time includes teacher guided activities and
independent activities.
Lesson Activities (Which include opening activity, direct teach, critical writing,
and small group talk)
Math: students will continue to measure items and make compare lengths and
discuss if any are the samelength.
ELR: students will continue to work on learning the letters Nn, Kk.
Students are going to work on cutting pictures of items that begin with
the letter N.
What are numbers?
How can we compare numbers and determine which one is bigger?
Why are letters important
What sounds does the letter Nn, Kk?
Can we all be detectives?
Can you name things that start with the letter Nn,Kk?
What kind of lines do the letters Nn and Kk?
Why is it important to know letters?
Does anyone start with the letter N and K in our classroom?
Closing Activity (Formative/Summative Assessment)
anecdotal notes
I will...review letter/sound Nn amd Kk.
We will count 1-9.
We will discuss what it means to compare.
Differentiation:
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




read directions aloud, restate and clarify directions, have students
repeat directions back to teacher
work in small group/one-to-one with teacher
extended time on tasks
provide work samples as model
use timer to cue students time to wrap up, so we can change center
Plans for Friday, January 23, 2015
By: Julie Eguia
Prekindergarten
Lesson Plan for the week of January 19-23, 2015
We will use the same guidelines throughout the week.
Lesson Plan for Math/ELR
Unit 3: Let's Investigate
TEKS: How can I compare things?
This week children will continue to measure and sort objects. They will build towers from blocks and look at rocks with a hand
lens. Children will learn more about how to be good listeners. After they talk about what it might be like to be very big or very
small, they will pretend to shrink or grow.
Learning Objectives:
We will...listen to "Nature Spy".
We will...identify the Letter Nn, Kk.
We will ... idenitfy things that start with the letter Nn, Kk.
We will...learn about how we can learn from other family members.
We will...count 0-10.
We will...identify number 0-9.
We will...learn what a detective does.
We will...learn how to measure items using a 12 inch piece of yarn.
We will...learn to measure length and compare height.
We will...learn how to compare numbers and find out which number is bigger.
Technology:Promethean Board: Letter song, shape song, number song,
nursery rhymes, calendar, nursery rhymes,
Academic Language/Key Vocabulary:
closer, nature, curious, outside, discover, spy, answer, height,
question, compare, higher, fewer, learn, longer, length,
shorter, arm same, smooth, tools, rough, order, before,
objects, after
Center Rotation: center time includes teacher guided activities and
independent activities.
Lesson Activities (Which include opening activity, direct teach, critical writing,
and small group talk)
Math: students will costruct a tower while counting 1-10. Teacher and student
will count together and determine what comes next.
ELR: students will continue to work on learning the letters Nn, Kk.
Students will work with playdough to shape the letters N and K.
How can we compare numbers and determine which one is bigger?
Why are letters important
What sounds does the letter Nn, Kk?
Can we all be detectives?
Can you name things that start with the letter Nn,Kk?
What kind of lines do the letters Nn and Kk?
Why is it important to know letters?
Does anyone start with the letter N and K in our classroom?
Closing Activity (Formative/Summative Assessment)
anecdotal notes
I will...review letter/sound Nn amd Kk.
We will count 1-9.
We will discuss what it means to compare.
Differentiation:






read directions aloud, restate and clarify directions, have students
repeat directions back to teacher
work in small group/one-to-one with teacher
extended time on tasks
provide work samples as model
use timer to cue students time to wrap up, so we can change center