costello building blocks- weekly happenings: march 23 ......1. easter/spring bingo— each child had...

Costello Building Blocks- Weekly Happenings: March 23-March 27, 2015

Description KDI’s Plan-Do-Review

PLANNING Time, WORK Time, RECALL Time— This three-part sequence is unique to the HighScope Curriculum. Occurring daily, it includes a 10- to 15-minute period during which children plan what they want to do during work time (the area to visit, materials to use, and friends to play with); a -minute work time for children to carry out their plans (or shift to new activities that interest them); and another 10- to 15-minute period for reviewing and recalling with an adult and other children what they've done and learned.

Approaches to Learning: initiative, planning, engagement, problem solving, use of

resources, reflection

Social/Emotional: self-identity, sense of competence, emotions, empaty,

community, building relationships, cooperative play, moral development, conflict

resolution

Small Group

Activities

1. Easter/Spring Bingo—

Each child had a bingo card with different Easter/spring pictures and symbols on them. When the teacher described the picture or symbol, the children’s job was to search their board for that picture or symbol. If they had a match, they used a bingo marker to cover the square. When their board had a bingo going horizontally, vertically or diagonal, they yelled out “bingo”!

Physical: fine motor

Language: comprehension, speaking, vocabulary

Math: shapes, part-whole relationships, spatial awareness, data analysis

Science: observing, classifying

Social Studies: decision making

2. Hatching an Egg {Science}- Using “growing chick eggs’ that hatch and grow when you place

them in water for 12-24 hours, we placed our eggs in water and made a prediction of what would happen while it was in the water.

· Throughout our time in school for the next two days, we observed what was happening to the egg. After the egg had hatched and finished growing, we concluded what happened throughout the hatching and growing and communicated our ideas within our small groups.

Physical: fine motor skills

Language/Literacy: comprehension, speaking, vocabulary, concepts about print

Math: number words and symbols, counting, measuring, part-whole relationships,

data analysis

Science: observing, classifying, experimenting, predicting, drawing conclusions, communicating ideas, natural and physical world

Social Studies: decision making

3. Painting with Plastic Eggs {Art}— Using plastic egg halves, paint and paper the children used their eggs to create circle stamps on their paper. Children experimented with their egg stamp to create patterns/designs on their paper and explored what happened when they used multiple colors together.


Language: comprehension, speaking, vocabulary,

Math: spatial awareness, patterns, data analysis

Creative: art

Science: communicating ideas, classifying

Social Studies: decision making, diversity


4. Spring Salt Painting {Art/Science}-

Using Elmer’s glue, salt, liquid watercolor paints and droppers, children created a design with glue, covered it with salt and then colored the salt with their choice of water color paints. For more extensive details on how to do this at home visit: http://happyhooligans.ca/salt-glue-watercolour-art/



Math: spatial awareness, patterns, data analysis, measuring

Creative: art

Science: communicating ideas, classifying, observing, experimenting, predicting Social Studies: decision making, diversity

5. Egg Hunt-

Plastic Easter eggs were labeled with various stickers. The eggs were hidden throughout the classroom. Each child was given a sticker that was placed on their hand. The children had to search the classroom to find the egg that matched their sticker. Once they found their match, they brought the egg back to their small group area. Children were given the chance to discuss what sticker they had, where they found their egg, etc.

Physical: large motor, body awareness


Math: spatial awareness, data analysis

Creative: movement

Science: observing, classifying, communicating ideas, predicting, drawing conclusions, natural and physical world

Social Studies: diversity

Large Group

Songs, Fingerplays & Activities:

Song

Bear Hunt

ABC Bones

Counting 1-20

Additon Pokey

Birthday’s

Country Countdown 1-20

5 Little Fish

Listen and Move

Put Your Finger On

Your Face

5 Spring Flowers

Classroom Traveling Band

Approaches to Learning: engagement

Social/Emotional: sense of competence, community

Creative Arts: music, movement, appreciating the arts

Physical: gross motor skills, fine motor skills, body awareness

Language/Literacy: comprehension, speaking, vocabulary, phonological

awareness

Math: number words and symbols, counting, part-whole relationships

Social Studies: diversity


Literature: Book Title Author

Bear’s New Friend Karma Wilson

Froggy Builds A Treehouse Jonathon London

Bones Stephen Krensky

It’s Not Easy Being a Bunny Marilyn Sadler

Moria’s Birthday Party Robert Munch

Mud Puddle Robert Munch

Paper Bag Princess Robert Munch

Corduroy’s Easter Party Don Freeman

Duck’s Easter Egg Hunt Dawn Richards

DW Go To Your Room Marc Brown

The Easter Ribbet Bernice Chardlet

Language & Literacy: comprehension, speaking, vocabulary, phonological awareness, alphabetic knowledge, concepts about print, book knowledge

Sensory Table

Easter Easter grass, plastic Easter eggs, toy carrots, toy bunnies, baskets

Science: classifying, communicating ideas Creative: pretend play

Play Doh Table

Egg Creation Station Playdoh & various patterned egg playdoh mats

Physical: fine motor Math: part-whole relationships, shapes, spatial awareness, patterns, data analysis

Activity Table

Size & Color Sorting-

Children sort plastic eggs by color

Children use large tweezers to sort pom poms by color and match them to the corresponding color egg

Children sort plastic eggs by size and order them: small, medium, large

Physical: fine motor Math: number words, counting, part-whole relationships, measuring, data analysis


Painting with Egg Halves

Salt Painting

Size & Color Sorting


Easter Egg Hunt


Day 1 Day 2 Day 3

Hatching an Egg Science

Making and

recording

observations

Making and

recording

predictions

We predict that by

Monday our eggs will be

completely hatched!

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