Unit 4 Plan (Where We Live) December,

2017

Unit 4 Standards:
Domain 1: Approaches to Learning
PK.ATL.5: Demonstrates persistence.

Domain 2: Physical Development and Health

PK.PDH.5: Demonstrates eye-hand coordination and dexterity needed to manipulate objects.

Domain 3: Social and Emotional Development

PK.SED.4: Develops positive relationships with their peers.

Domain 4: Communication, Language and Literacy

Approaches to Communication
PK.CLL.4: Demonstrates his/her ability to express ideas using a variety of methods.
Reading Standards for Literature
PK.CLL.1: With prompting and support ask and answer detail(s) about a text.
Reading Standards for Informational Text
PK.CLL.9: With prompting and support, identify basic similarities and differences between two texts on the same topic (e.g., illustrations, descriptions
or procedures).
Writing Standards
PK.CLL.5: With guidance and support, respond to questions and suggestions and add details to strengthen illustration or writing, as needed.
Speaking and Listening
PK.CLL.6 Demonstrate an emergent ability to express thoughts, feelings and ideas.

Domain 5: Cognition and Knowledge of the World

Mathematics
PK.CKW.1 (Geometry): Analyze, compare and sort two and three-dimensional shapes and objects, in different sizes, using informal language to describe
their similarities, differences, and other attributes (e.g. color, size and shape).
Science
PK.CKW.5 Observes and describes characteristics of living things.
Social Studies
PK.CKW.1: Develops a basic awareness of self as an individual, self within the context of a family and self within the context of community.
PK.CKW.3: Demonstrates knowledge of the relationship between people, places and regions.
PK.CKW.5: Demonstrates an understanding of roles, rights and responsibilities.
The Arts
PK.CKW.5 (The Arts): Participates in a variety of dramatic play activities to represent fantasy and real life experiences.
Technology
PK.CKW.2: Explores and uses various types of tools appropriately
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Letter of the Week: Ff

UNIT TITLE: (4.1) Where We Live WEEK: 1
Essential Question: Where do the people and animals around me live? Focus Question: Where do I live? Where do my
family members live?
Focus Vocabulary: address, borough, city, far, home, near, neighborhood, roads, street
Monday 12/04 Tuesday 12/05 Wednesday 12/06 Thursday 12/07 Friday 12/08

Morning Greeting: Welcome song Greeting: Welcome song Greeting: Welcome song Greeting: Welcome song Greeting: Welcome
Meeting song
Routine Share: What’s the news? Share: Where do you live? Share: Do some family Share: How would you
(Scholars share 1 thing Who lives with you? members live close or far decorate your home? Share: What’s your
from weekend: activity, away? What dreams would you favorite center or
event, person, etc.) Activity: Count who’s have on your home, like activity from this
here. (More kids or Activity: Count who’s Mr. Plumbean. week?
Activity: Count who’s teachers?) Days of the here. (More kids or
here. Days of the week week song. teachers?) Days of the Activity: Count who’s Activity: Count who’s
song. week song. here. (More boys or girls?) here. (More or less
Rotate jobs. Explain any Message: Good morning, Days of the week song. than yesterday?) Days
new materials available in Pre-K! Today is Tuesday. Message: Good morning, of the week song.
centers. We will have... Pre-K! Today is
Wednesday. We will Message: Good morning, Message: Good
Message: Good morning, have... Pre-K! Today is Thursday. morning, Pre-K! Today
Pre-K! Today is Monday. We will have…. is Friday. Let’s
We will have…. celebrate and shout
out our SOW!
Math BB - Week 10
Meeting

Math Small Shape Step

Groups
Found. A House For Hermit Crab
Text
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Center 
 Sensory: Add laminated pictures/cards of desert animals to the sand table and ocean animals to the water bins. Invite children to
Block 1 match ocean animals and desert animals. Encourage children to use letters to build each animal’s name. Relate to the focus
include each question with a visual, where do ocean and desert animals live.
center, learning Blocks: foam blocks, wood blocks, city signs, wood train, people figurines. 

focus, &
materials.
Our community: Engine 58/Ladder 26, transform the block center into our local fire station. Display photos from the field trip to
our community fire station. Invite children to paint and transform a large cardboard box into a fire truck. Add spray bottles, fire
man uniform, and firefighter books.
Blueprints: Introduce and display blueprints in the block area. Encourage children to design their own blueprint using rulers and
graph paper. Display children’s blueprints and encourage them to reference and follow them while building.
Apartment Buildings: Add legos and various types of blocks and building materials for children that you have available.
Encourage children to build their own homes or buildings near where they live.
Art: Paint, open-ended materials, and large blank home outlines. Invite children to create their own home, just like Mr. Plumbean
- Text: The Big Orange Splot
Shape Homes: Provide an assortment of construction paper shapes. Have children talk about and then sort the shapes in order
to make purposeful selections and create a home. They can create their own home or a home they might like to live in.
Dramatic Play: Turn Dramatic Play into a local restaurant. Invite children to play restaurant together. Ask them to help set up the
restaurant and provide menus from local restaurants. Ask which materials to include and invite the children to design weekly
menus. Rotate food baskets weekly and use the items as the weekly ingredients. Encourage children each week to think of
dishes or meals with the provided materials. Encourage them to write on the daily specials board and within the menus. Add a
tablecloth, money, laminated menus, paper for menus, picture/word visuals, and chef hat. Take a photo of each child in the
chef hat to display.
Math: connecting cubes, shapes, letter/number magnatiles. Encourage students to construct classroom or their homes out of
magnatiles.

Feelings eggs: different expression mouths/eyes for kids to match up.

Add small people or figurines for kids to sort and count or use for imaginative play.
- Text: One Family by George Shannon.
Science: Magnets and gears. Provide children with visuals of houseboats. Challenge children to design and create their own houseboat
using either gears or magnatiles. Which building material is suited best for water, why? Will it sink or float? Have children first
design the blueprint, then invite them to use their blueprint to re-create their structure. After children have designed and built
their houseboat have them use a water tub to experiment if it will sink or float. Children can save structures throughout the
week on a save shelf. Ask children to reflect upon their building process, what would they do differently, or change?
Puzzles: alphabet puzzle, letter lacing beads, play doh. Encourage kids to make themselves, their friends, their teachers, out of
playdoh.
Writing: Post Office: crayons, pencils, markers, letters, envelopes, stamps, and large cardboard box. Have children write letters to Mr.
Plumbean after they designed their Orange Splot home in the art center. Use a large cardboard box and transform it into a
mailbox. When children are done writing their letters they can place their letter in the mailbox. At the end of the week walk to
the mailbox on our block. Mail letters to Mr. Plumbean! 

Add stuffed animals: Provide small stuffed animals or dolls and invite children to read to them.
Library: Retelling of three little pigs. Create visuals for felt board with story. Display characters, three homes, and encourage children
to create visuals to later use for retelling.
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Supporting Books About Homes, Books About Homes, About Homes, Habitats,
Texts Habitats, Construction: Habitats, Construction: Construction:
ABC of American Homes
by Michael Shoulders
ABC New York by Joanne
Dugan
Dreaming Up by Christy
Hale
How a House is Built by
Gail Gibbons

Center All materials same as Same all week Same all week. Same all week. Same all week.
Block 2 previous centers block.
include each As more materials
center, learning become available, focus
focus, &
materials.
on maintaining high
standards and routines
(proper use of centers
chart), caring for
materials, clean up.
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2017

Letter of the Week: Nn

UNIT TITLE: (4.1) Where We Live WEEK: 2
Essential Question: Where do the people and animals around me live? Focus Question: Where do people and animals live?
Focus Vocabulary: bedroom, burrow, den, downstairs, habitat, hibernate, hive, nest, pet, upstairs
Monday 12/11 Tuesday 12/12 Wednesday 12/13 Thursday 12/14 Friday 12/15

Morning Greeting: Welcome song Greeting: Welcome song Greeting: Welcome song Greeting: Welcome song Greeting: Welcome
Meeting song
Routine Share: What’s the news? Activity: Count who’s Share: Where do animals Share: What are some
(Scholars share 1 thing here. (More kids or in my city live? homes that other animals Share: What’s your
from weekend: activity, teachers?) Days of the live in? favorite center or
event, person, etc.) week song. Activity: Pop See Ko activity from this
Activity: Boom Chicka week?
Activity: Count who’s Share: Where do people Boom
here. Days of the week in my city live? Message: Good morning, Activity: Count who’s
song. Pre-K! Today is here. (More or less
Rotate jobs. Explain any Message: Good morning, Wednesday. We will Message: Good morning, than yesterday?) Days
new materials available in Pre-K! Today is Tuesday. have... Pre-K! Today is Thursday. of the week song.
centers. We will have... We will have….
Message: Good
Message: Good morning, morning, Pre-K! Today
Pre-K! Today is Monday. is Friday. It’s the
We will have…. Winter Spectacular!
Math BB - Week 11
Meeting

Math Small Review

Groups
Found. The Big Orange Splot
Text
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2017
Center 
 Sensory: Add laminated pictures/cards of desert animals to the sand table and ocean animals to the water bins. Invite children to
Block 1 match ocean animals and desert animals. Encourage children to use letters to build each animal’s name. Relate to the focus
include each question with a visual, where do ocean and desert animals live.
center, learning Blocks: foam blocks, wood blocks, city signs, wood train, people figurines. 

focus, &
materials.
Our community: Engine 58/Ladder 26, transform the block center into our local fire station. Display photos from the field trip to
our community fire station. Invite children to paint and transform a large cardboard box into a fire truck. Add spray bottles, fire
man uniform, and firefighter books.
Blueprints: Introduce and display blueprints in the block area. Encourage children to design their own blueprint using rulers and
graph paper. Display children’s blueprints and encourage them to reference and follow them while building.
Apartment Buildings: Add legos and various types of blocks and building materials for children that you have available.
Encourage children to build their own homes or buildings near where they live.
Art: Paint, open-ended materials, and large blank home outlines. Invite children to create their own home, just like Mr. Plumbean
- Text: The Big Orange Splot
Shape Homes: Provide an assortment of construction paper shapes. Have children talk about and then sort the shapes in order
to make purposeful selections and create a home. They can create their own home or a home they might like to live in.
Dramatic Play: Turn Dramatic Play into a local restaurant. Invite children to play restaurant together. Ask them to help set up the
restaurant and provide menus from local restaurants. Ask which materials to include and invite the children to design weekly
menus. Rotate food baskets weekly and use the items as the weekly ingredients. Encourage children each week to think of
dishes or meals with the provided materials. Encourage them to write on the daily specials board and within the menus. Add a
tablecloth, money, laminated menus, paper for menus, picture/word visuals, and chef hat. Take a photo of each child in the
chef hat to display.
Math: connecting cubes, shapes, letter/number magnatiles. Encourage students to construct classroom or their homes out of
magnatiles.

Feelings eggs: different expression mouths/eyes for kids to match up.

Add small people or figurines for kids to sort and count or use for imaginative play.
- Text: One Family by George Shannon.
Science: Magnets and gears. Provide children with visuals of houseboats. Challenge children to design and create their own houseboat
using either gears or magnatiles. Which building material is suited best for water, why? Will it sink or float? Have children first
design the blueprint, then invite them to use their blueprint to re-create their structure. After children have designed and built
their houseboat have them use a water tub to experiment if it will sink or float. Children can save structures throughout the
week on a save shelf. Ask children to reflect upon their building process, what would they do differently, or change?
Puzzles: alphabet puzzle, letter lacing beads, play doh. Encourage kids to make themselves, their friends, their teachers, out of
playdoh.
Writing: Post Office: crayons, pencils, markers, letters, envelopes, stamps, and large cardboard box. Have children write letters to Mr.
Plumbean after they designed their Orange Splot home in the art center. Use a large cardboard box and transform it into a
mailbox. When children are done writing their letters they can place their letter in the mailbox. At the end of the week walk to
the mailbox on our block. Mail letters to Mr. Plumbean! 

Add stuffed animals: Provide small stuffed animals or dolls and invite children to read to them.
Library: Retelling of three little pigs. Create visuals for felt board with story. Display characters, three homes, and encourage children
to create visuals to later use for retelling.
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2017
Supporting Books About Homes, Books About Homes, About Homes, Habitats,
Texts Habitats, Construction: Habitats, Construction: Construction:
ABC of American Homes
by Michael Shoulders
ABC New York by Joanne
Dugan
Dreaming Up by Christy
Hale
How a House is Built by
Gail Gibbons

Center All materials same as Same all week Same all week. Same all week. Same all week.
Block 2 previous centers block.
include each As more materials
center, learning become available, focus
focus, &
materials.
on maintaining high
standards and routines
(proper use of centers
chart), caring for
materials, clean up.
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2017

Letter of the Week: Nn

UNIT TITLE: (4.1) Where We Live WEEK: 3
Essential Question: Where do the people and animals around me live? Focus Question: What type of homes do the people
in my city live in?
Focus Vocabulary: attic, apartment, basement, brownstone, castle, door, house, roof, shelter, stairs, window

Monday 12/18 Tuesday 12/05 Wednesday 12/06 Thursday 12/07 Friday 12/08
Morning Greeting: Welcome song Greeting: Welcome song Greeting: Welcome song Greeting: Welcome song Greeting: Welcome
Meeting song
Routine Share: What’s the news? Activity: Count who’s Activity: Desert/Ocean Share: Do some family
(Scholars share 1 thing here. (More kids or members live in different Share: What’s your
from weekend: activity, teachers?) Days of the Share: What type of home buildings? favorite center or
event, person, etc.) week song. do you live in? activity from this
Activity: Desert/Ocean week?
Activity: Count who’s Share: What type of home Message: Good morning,
here. Days of the week do the people in my city Pre-K! Today is Activity: Count who’s
song. live in? Wednesday. We will Message: Good morning, here. (More or less
Rotate jobs. Explain any have... Pre-K! Today is Thursday. than yesterday?) Days
new materials available in Message: Good morning, We will have…. of the week song.
centers. Pre-K! Today is Tuesday.
We will have... Message: Good
Message: Good morning, morning, Pre-K! Today
Pre-K! Today is Monday. is Friday. It’s the
We will have…. Winter Spectacular!

Math BB - Week 11
Meeting
Math Small Review
Groups

Found. The Three Little Pigs and the Somewhat Bad Wolf
Text
 Unit 4 Plan (Where We Live) December,
2017
Center 
 Sensory: Add laminated pictures/cards of desert animals to the sand table and ocean animals to the water bins. Invite children to
Block 1 match ocean animals and desert animals. Encourage children to use letters to build each animal’s name. Relate to the focus
include each question with a visual, where do ocean and desert animals live.
center, learning Blocks: foam blocks, wood blocks, city signs, wood train, people figurines. 

focus, &
materials.
Our community: Engine 58/Ladder 26, transform the block center into our local fire station. Display photos from the field trip to
our community fire station. Invite children to paint and transform a large cardboard box into a fire truck. Add spray bottles, fire
man uniform, and firefighter books.
Blueprints: Introduce and display blueprints in the block area. Encourage children to design their own blueprint using rulers and
graph paper. Display children’s blueprints and encourage them to reference and follow them while building.
Apartment Buildings: Add legos and various types of blocks and building materials for children that you have available.
Encourage children to build their own homes or buildings near where they live.
Art: Paint, open-ended materials, and large blank home outlines. Invite children to create their own home, just like Mr. Plumbean
- Text: The Big Orange Splot
Shape Homes: Provide an assortment of construction paper shapes. Have children talk about and then sort the shapes in order
to make purposeful selections and create a home. They can create their own home or a home they might like to live in.
Dramatic Play: Turn Dramatic Play into a local restaurant. Invite children to play restaurant together. Ask them to help set up the
restaurant and provide menus from local restaurants. Ask which materials to include and invite the children to design weekly
menus. Rotate food baskets weekly and use the items as the weekly ingredients. Encourage children each week to think of
dishes or meals with the provided materials. Encourage them to write on the daily specials board and within the menus. Add a
tablecloth, money, laminated menus, paper for menus, picture/word visuals, and chef hat. Take a photo of each child in the
chef hat to display.
Math: connecting cubes, shapes, letter/number magnatiles. Encourage students to construct classroom or their homes out of
magnatiles.

Feelings eggs: different expression mouths/eyes for kids to match up.

Add small people or figurines for kids to sort and count or use for imaginative play.
- Text: One Family by George Shannon.
Science: Magnets and gears. Provide children with visuals of houseboats. Challenge children to design and create their own houseboat
using either gears or magnatiles. Which building material is suited best for water, why? Will it sink or float? Have children first
design the blueprint, then invite them to use their blueprint to re-create their structure. After children have designed and built
their houseboat have them use a water tub to experiment if it will sink or float. Children can save structures throughout the
week on a save shelf. Ask children to reflect upon their building process, what would they do differently, or change?
Puzzles: alphabet puzzle, letter lacing beads, play doh. Encourage kids to make themselves, their friends, their teachers, out of
playdoh.
Writing: Post Office: crayons, pencils, markers, letters, envelopes, stamps, and large cardboard box. Have children write letters to Mr.
Plumbean after they designed their Orange Splot home in the art center. Use a large cardboard box and transform it into a
mailbox. When children are done writing their letters they can place their letter in the mailbox. At the end of the week walk to
the mailbox on our block. Mail letters to Mr. Plumbean! 

Add stuffed animals: Provide small stuffed animals or dolls and invite children to read to them.
Library: Retelling of three little pigs. Create visuals for felt board with story. Display characters, three homes, and encourage children
to create visuals to later use for retelling.
 Unit 4 Plan (Where We Live) December,
2017
Supporting Books About Homes, Books About Homes, About Homes, Habitats,
Texts Habitats, Construction: Habitats, Construction: Construction:
ABC of American Homes
by Michael Shoulders
ABC New York by Joanne
Dugan
Dreaming Up by Christy
Hale
How a House is Built by
Gail Gibbons

Center All materials same as Same all week Same all week. Same all week. Same all week.
Block 2 previous centers block.
include each As more materials
center, learning become available, focus
focus, &
materials.
on maintaining high
standards and routines
(proper use of centers
chart), caring for
materials, clean up.

UNIT TITLE: (4.4) Where We Live WEEK: 4

Essential Question: Where do the people and animals around me live? Focus Question: How do people and animals make
homes?
Focus Vocabulary: architect, backyard, blueprints, build, builder, bricks, cement, concrete, construction, exit, fire escape, floor plans, floor plans,
glass, metal, shingles, straw, tools, wood
Monday 1/8 Tuesday 1/9 Wednesday 1/10 Thursday 1/11 Friday 1/12
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Morning NO SCHOOL: ALL STAFF PD Welcome song: Welcome song: Welcome song: Welcome song:
Meeting count who’s here. count who’s here. count who’s here. count who’s here.
Routine ( students job) ( students job) ( students job) ( students job)
Month Song Month Song Month Song Month Song
Days of the week song Days of the week song Days of the week song Days of the week song
Calendar--What’s the day Calendar--What’s the day Calendar--What’s the day Calendar--What’s the
and date? and date? and date? day and date?
Count and move 1-20 in a Count and move 1-20 in a Count and move 1-20 in a Count and move 1-20
pattern. pattern. pattern. in a pattern.

Introduce building blocks Introduce building blocks Introduce building

computer game computer game blocks computer game
Greeting/Share: What we
did over the break.

Activity: Go over routines Share: What’s the news? Share: What’s the news? Share: What’s the
and distribute letter (Scholars share 1 thing from (Scholars share 1 thing from news? (Scholars share 1
necklaces. weekend: activity, event, weekend: activity, event, thing from weekend:
person, etc.) person, etc.) activity, event, person, etc.)

Building Blocks Whole Building Blocks Whole Building Blocks Whole Building Blocks Whole
Group Math Activity: (see Group Math Activity: (see Group Math Activity: (see Group Math Activity:
BB whole group BB whole group BB whole group (see BB whole group

Math BB - Week 12
Meeting
Found. Iggy Peck Architect by Andrea Beaty
Text
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Center 
 Sensory: Fake snow, small plastic letters, gingerbread men, plastic dreidels, cups and funnels. Invite children to find the letters in
Block 1 their names and play with the snow as if it were actually outside. Build snowmen, gingerbread houses, or try to play dreidel in the
include each snow.
center, learning - Text: Following Papa’s Song by Gianna Marino
focus, &
materials.
Blocks: foam blocks, wood blocks, city signs, wood train, people figurines. Post pictures of different types of homes and buildings and
invite children to build the homes in the pictures or similar homes. 

Ask children about their structures, take pictures of their work and post them in the Block area. Allow children to help take the
pictures. Invite children to build skyscraper apartment buildings. Encourage them to build apartment buildings as tall as they can.
Provide children with safety reminders for tall structures, posting a “caution” sign in the area when structures become very tall
and verbally warning their peers when working on large structures. Keep barn and farm animals for children to explore. Talk with
the children about which animals live on a farm.
- Texts: Block City by Robert Louis Stevenson, Iggy Peck Architect by Andrea Beaty, Building a House by Byron Barton,
Dreaming Up: A Celebration of Building by Christy Hale, How a House is Built by Gail Gibbons
Art: Paint, paper, small shape pieces. Encourage students to make their apartment buildings. Provide an assortment of construction
paper shapes. Have children talk about and then sort the shapes in order to make purposeful selections and create a home. They
can create their own home or a home they might like to live in. Encourage students to create bird’s nest like the one in science,
provide twigs, string, yarn, Popsicle sticks, etc. to do so. Encourage students to make decorations to add to the dramatic play
center.
- Texts: ABC NYC by Joanne Dugan, A House is a House for Me by Mary Ann Hoberman, Little Elliot, Big City by Mike Curato
Dramatic Play: Turn Dramatic Play into a home within a winter wonderland. Invite children to play house and do things they do in the
winter, e.g. make hot chocolate, build a snowman, sit by the fire, open presents, decorate the tree, bake cookies, etc. Add
animal homes as possible.
- Texts: The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats, Hanukkah Lights by David Martin, Snowmen All Year by Caralyn Buehner, Biscuit’s
Snowy Day
Math: connecting cubes, geometric shapes and patterns, letter/number magnatiles. Encourage students to construct their homes or
buildings with which they are familiar, out of magnatiles or cubes.
- Texts: The Mitten by Jan Brett, Bear in a Square by Stella Blackstone
Science: Magnets, magnifying glasses, mirrors, wood slices, twigs, pine cones. Add a birds nest. Add insects and encourage students to
make insect homes in the art area and bring them to the science center.
- Texts: Home Sweet Den and Home Sweet Nest by Elizabeth Salzmann, Animals at Home by David Lock, Animal Homes by
Angela Wilkes
Puzzles: Keep alphabet puzzles, letter lacing beads. Add puzzle tray to make multiple puzzles available. Add play doh and winter-
themed play doh cookie cutters. Encourage kids to make themselves, their friends, their teachers, snowmen, gingerbread men,
etc. out of playdoh.
Writing: Keep crayons, pencils, markers, colored paper, name/face vocabulary cards, emotion vocabulary cards, shape cutouts. Add
winter-themed stamps. 

Stationery and envelopes: invite children to write letters to family members and friends, show example christmas/holiday
cards. Invite students to create mail and deliver it to each other.
- Texts: The Jolly Postman by Janet and Allen Ahlberg, The ABC Book of American Homes by Michael Shoulders, Houses and
Homes by Ann Morris
Library: Update picture cards for students to retell recent texts and misc. texts organized by theme. Keep book hospital.
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Supporting BB W12 Add books: Supp. Books about Supp. Books about NYC: Books about Building
Texts My Visit to the Dinosaurs Homes: ABC NYC by Joanne Dugan Homes:
by Aliki, The ABC Book of American A Glorious Day by Amy Building a House by Byron
Count-a-saurus by Nancy Homes by Michael Schwartz Barton
Blumenthal, Shoulders How a House is Built by
Happy Cat by Steve Henry
Too Many Eggs: A Counting Houses and Homes by Ann Gail Gibbons
Book by M. Christina Little Elliot, Big City by
Morris Mike Curato If I Built a House by Chris
Butler, Van Dusen
I Have Two Homes by Max Found Two Sticks by
Two Ways to Count to Ten
Marian De Smet Brian J. Pinkney
by Ruby Dee,
March of the Dinosaurs by Two Homes by Claire No Jumping on the Bed by
Jakki Wood Masurel Ted Arnold
Sky High by Germano
Zullo
The Village of Round and
Square Houses by Ann
Grifalconi

Recess/ Observe the snow. Is it Sing Five Little Monkeys Discuss the weather. How
Physical melting? Why? Jumping on the Bed with does the cold feel? What
Dev the children. The do they need to wear to
monkeys in this song think protect them from the
it is fun to jump on the snow?
bed. Invite the children to
pretend they are jumping
on the bed while doing
the chant; think of other
things monkeys might like
to do to have fun at home
and then act those things
out too.
Center All materials same as Same all week Same all week. Same all week. Same all week.
Block 2 previous centers block.
include each As more materials
center, learning become available, focus
focus, &
materials.
on maintaining high
standards and routines
(proper use of centers
chart), caring for
materials, clean up.
 Unit 4 Plan (Where We Live) December,
2017