Costello Building Blocks- Weekly Happenings: February 9-13,18, 2015

Description
Plan-DoReview

Small
Group
Activities

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.

KDIs

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

1.

Water Color Hearts + Dictation: In honor of Valentines Day,

we used water color paints to created beautiful heartwork.
Our paintings along with a dictation attached are currently
hanging in the hallway outside of our classroom. They will be
sent home toward the end of the month (theyre just too
pretty to take down now)!

Approaches to Learning: initiative, engagement, reflection

Social/Emotional: self-identity, sense of competence, community
Physical: fine motor skills
Creative: art
Language/Literacy: comprehension, speaking, vocabulary
Science: natural and physical world

2.

Letter Love Bugs: Children used die cut circles with the
letters of their name on them to assemble a love bug. The
children then decorated their bug to their liking with various
art materials.

Physical: fine motor skills

Creative: art
Language/Literacy: comprehension, speaking, vocabulary, alphabetic knowledge,
phonological awareness
Math: number words, counting, -whole relationships, spatial awareness,
measuring, pattern
Science: natural and physical world

3.

Jewel Hearts: Using foam hearts, jewels and tacky glue, the
children created beautiful, sparkly valentines hearts to take
home and help decorated their home with love!

4.

Candy Patterning, Graphing & Letter Practice: Children were

each given a patterning sheet and a bag of sweettart hearts.
Children were asked to complete their pattering page using
the materials that they were given. The children helped each
other when they got stumped and each child did a great job
figuring out how to complete their patterns! Children were
rewarded with permission to eat a few of their sweettarts,
which they loved!

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
Approaches to Learning: engagement, use of resources, problem solving
Social/Emotional: self-identity, sense of competence, community, cooperative
play, conflict resolution
Physical: fine motor
Language: comprehension, speaking,
Math: counting, shapes, patterns, spatial awareness, unit
Science: observing, experimenting, drawing conclusions, communicating ideas
Social Studies: decision making

Costello Building Blocks- Weekly Happenings: February 9-13,18, 2015

Large
Group

5.

Valentines Painting: Using various colors of paint, and various

Valentines Day stamps and sponges, the children created a
Valentines masterpiece!

Creative: art
Physical: fine motor, gross motor, body awareness, personal care
Language: comprehension, speaking, vocabulary
Math: counting, shapes, patterns, spatial awareness
Science: observing, experimenting, communicating ideas
Social Studies: diversity, decision making

6.

The Snowy Day Print Making: After reading The Snowy Day by
Ezra Jack Keats the children practiced making prints with snow
just like the boy in the book did. Using a mixture of flour, salt and
water, children used their fingers to make prints like the boy did
using short strokes, long strokes, waves and straight lines. The
children also had the chance to create their own unique prints.

Physical: fine motor skills, body awareness

Language/Literacy: comprehension, speaking, vocabulary
Math: spatial awareness, counting, patterns, data analysis
Science: observing, classifying, experimenting, predicting, communicating ideas,
natural and physical world, tools and technology
Social Studies: diversity, community roles, decision making

Approaches to Learning: engagement

Social/Emotional: sense of competence, community
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
Creative: music, movement
Social Studies: diversity

Songs, Fingerplays & Activities:

Song
Birthdays
Head and Shoulders
Seven Days of the Week
The Days of the Week
Had A Little Rooster
Lil Bunny Foo Foo
Hickory Dickory Dock
Mack the Chicken Dance
Put Your Finger on
Bean Bag Dance
Playtime Marching Song
The Bean Bag Boogie
This Old Man
Apples and Bananas
Your Face
5 Little Fish
Country Countdown
Additon Pokey

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Literature:

Sensory
Table

Book Title
Acoustic Rooserter and His
Barnyard Band
The Completed Hickory,
Dickory, Dock
The Bookstore Valentine
Arthurs Valentine
Bee My Valentine

Author
Kwame Alexander

Today I Feel Silly

The Way I Feel
Dont Forget I Love You
Keeping Clean
A Giant Crush
Valentine Friends
Chester
I Aint Gonna Paint No More
Mouse Count
Numbers at the Park
Everyone Uses Math
The Snowy Day

Jamie Lee Curtis

Janan Cain
Miriam Moss
Sharon Gordon
Gennifer Choldenko
April Jones Prince
Syd Hoff
Karen Beaumont
Ellen Stoll Walsh
Charles Chigna
Brian Sargent
Ezra Jack Keats

Jim Aylesworth
Barbara Maitland
Marc Brown
Miriam Cohem

Snow science creation

Language & Literacy: comprehension, speaking, vocabulary, phonological

awareness, alphabetic knowledge, concepts about print, book knowledge