Costello Building Blocks- Weekly Happenings: May 4-8, 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.
1.

Chalk Posters:

Using black poster board and chalk, children paired up and

worked outside to create a work of art. Children were instructed
that they had to work together to come up with what they
wanted to make their picture of. After that, they put their ideas
into action until they were done creating together. Our
masterpieces are hanging in the hallway outside our classroom.
2.

Garden Journals:

Three weeks ago we planted our seeds. Weve been using our garden
journals to document the progress thats been observed over the past
few weeks. Children are given their journals and materials to
decorate their journals. Children are given their plant and asked to
observe what they see happening. After theyve done their
observations, they record their findings in their journal.
Day 21: What I see Happening- Our plants are growing like crazy!
Children were given their plants and they recorded what they saw.
3.

Mothers Day Project-

Throughout the week we worked on our Mothers Day projects. We

helped to plant the flowers, water the flowers, make the tags and tie
the tags. We also helped provide the wonderful narrative to the All
About Mom page. We hope you all enjoyed your Mothers Day gift
from the little ones and also hope you had a very wonderful and
pampered Mothers Day!

KDIs

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

resources, reflection

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

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

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, letter recognition,
number recognition, alphabetic knowledge
Science: natural and physical world

Physical: fine motor, body awareness

Language: comprehension, speaking, vocabulary, book knowledge, writing
Math: shapes, part-whole relationships, spatial awareness, data analysis
Science: observing, classifying, drawing conclusions, communicating ideas, natural
and physical world
Social Studies: ecology

Physical: fine motor

Language: comprehension, speaking, vocabulary
Math: part-whole relationships,
Creative: art
Science: classifying, communicating ideas, drawing conclusions, natural and
physical world
Social Studies: diversity, decision making, ecology

Costello Building Blocks- Weekly Happenings: May 4-8, 2015

4.

Mothers Day Project-

Throughout the week we worked on our Mothers Day projects. We

helped to plant the flowers, water the flowers, make the tags and tie
the tags. We also helped provide the wonderful narrative to the All
About Mom page. We hope you all enjoyed your Mothers Day gift
from the little ones and also hope you had a very wonderful and
pampered Mothers Day!
5.

Mothers Day Project-

Throughout the week we worked on our Mothers Day projects. We

helped to plant the flowers, water the flowers, make the tags and tie
the tags. We also helped provide the wonderful narrative to the All
About Mom page. We hope you all enjoyed your Mothers Day gift
from the little ones and also hope you had a very wonderful and
pampered Mothers Day!
Large
Group

Physical: fine motor

Language: comprehension, speaking, vocabulary
Math: part-whole relationships,
Creative: art
Science: classifying, communicating ideas, drawing conclusions, natural and
physical world
Social Studies: diversity, decision making, ecology

Physical: fine motor

Language: comprehension, speaking, vocabulary
Math: part-whole relationships,
Creative: art
Science: classifying, communicating ideas, drawing conclusions, natural and
physical world
Social Studies: diversity, decision making, ecology

Songs, Fingerplays & Activities:

Birthday Song
The Baker Song
Friends
Your Face
Five Spring Flowers
5 Green and Speckled Frogs
Today is Monday
Apples & Bananas
Seven Days of the Week
Same & Different

Literature:

Book Title
Today is Monday
Llama Llama Misses Mama
What are You So Grumpy
About?
Chicka Chicka Boom Boom
Alphabet Adventure
Mud!
Froggys Tree House
Frog and Toad Are Friends

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

Author
Eric Carle
Paul Galdone
Tom Lichtenheld
Bill Martin Jr
Audrey Wood
Wendy Cheyette Lewison
Jonothan London
Arnold Lobel

Language & Literacy: comprehension, speaking, vocabulary, phonological

awareness, alphabetic knowledge, concepts about print, book knowledge

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Sensory
Table

Marble Works
Science: classifying, communicating ideas
Creative: pretend play

Play Doh
Table

Playdoh & letter & number stampers

Physical: fine motor,

Physical: large & fine motor skills, body awareness
Language/Literacy: comprehension, speaking, vocabulary, alphabetic knowledge,
number recognition
Math: number words and symbols, counting, part-whole relationships, spatial
awareness, unit, data analysis,
Science: observing, classifying, experimenting, predicting, drawing conclusions,
communicating ideas

Activity
Table

Frogs on a Log

Frog Counting Mats

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

Frogs on a Log

Frog Counting Mats