Pre K 3 Family EngagementWeek 12 – June 8, 2020

This week, Pre K students will be learning about

This week, Pre K 3 students will be reviewing ABC’s and 123’s

by visiting

It has been so wonderful to see Pre K 3 students participating in Seesaw! It is exciting to see pictures of students, as well as the work that they are accomplishing! If adults need assistance in signing into

Seesaw, please contact Ms. D - cdanylukshgsyonkers.orgWhen logging in to Seesaw, please log in under your child’s

account, not your (the parent’s) account. Thank you!

Pre K 3 students will also continue to focus on a new unit-BOXES: Shapes and Sizes!

SEA LIFE!

Below are suggested activities that students may engage in at home.

Questions of the Week (to ask children) What can we do with boxes? How can we make an aquarium out of a box? How can we make a treasure chest out of a box? What kind of fish live in the ocean? What big creatures live in the ocean?

Literacy

The children can use GOLDFISH CRACKERS to create letters!

The children can identify and write letters of the alphabet found in their environment. The children can identify letters that they find on labels on boxes, road signs, and store fronts.  The children can write the same letters in their writing journals. 

Science

The children can gain an understanding of sea animals and their environment by engaging in a variety of virtual aquarium tours. 

Blippi Visits the Aquarium: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fOWFfpLYW0

Monterey Bay Aquarium Live Cams:

https://www.montereybayaquarium.org/animals/live-cams?gclid=CjwKCAjw2uf2BRBpEiwA31VZj1CpCSGyuUtmu59w561wObtMdxRuGL0JorA-9byAO7EBaYnvJiGRiRoCCagQAvD_BwE

Baltimore Aquarium Virtual Tour: https://aqua.org/media/virtualtours/baltimore/index.html

Please send Ms. D a picture of your child engaging in Science Activities!Art

The children can create three dimensional aquariums by painting/coloring boxes using blue and green colors.  The children can glue colored tissue paper to create plants.  The children can glue goldfish crackers (or any other sea creatures that they create), to the back of the inside of the box.  The children can glue sand and shells to the bottom of the box. The children can place cellophane over the front of the box..   

Please send Ms. D a picture of your child holding his/her AQUARIUM!

Math

The children can use this graph to count GOLDFISH CRACKERS! (found on next page)

The children can use GOLDFISH CRACKERS

to create numbers!

GOLDFISH GRAPHING

The

children can take a box and draw a SMILEY FACE on each face of the box.

10

9

8

7

6

5

4

3

2

1YELLOW RED GREEN ORANGE

The children can identify the face, vertex (corner), and edge of a box.

The children can count the number of faces, corners and edges of a box.  The children can identify the numbers counted on a number line.

The children will count the number of sides in two dimensional shapes. The children will identify the numbers counted on a number line and

write the number symbols on a separate piece of paper.   

Please send Ms. D a picture of your child holding his/her box with faces!

Dramatic Play

The children can pretend to work in an aquarium giving tours and taking care of sea life.  The children can utilize sea animal toys as well as the aquariums created in the Art Center.

Please send Ms. D a picture of your child pretending to work in an AQUARIUM!

Blocks

The children can use a variety of sizes of boxes to build creations.  The children can be encouraged to build an aquarium.  The children can add sea creature toys and artificial plants to their aquariums. The children can use the sea life pictured below in their block creations:

Please send Ms. D a picture of your child’s box creations!Stories of the Week

The children can listen to the following stories: The Button Box: https://youtu.be/APY-JJ_6TPs The Birthday Box: https://youtu.be/JblnaXI7iHU My Cat Likes to Hide in Boxes: https://youtu.be/rHO3RmvNarc Rainbow Fish: https://youtu.be/QFORvXhub28 Fish Eyes: https://youtu.be/TEtxh82VRCg Peppa Visits the Aquarium: https://www.youtube.com/watch?

v=eX1CrF2vQOw The Ocean Alphabet Book: https://youtu.be/8CM3PcRQ8NI

Big Fish, Little Fish: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyCwlL8NXbQ Little White Fish: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcVdUH-

hpeI&t=17s

Videos of the Week

o Down in Deep Blue Sea: https://youtu.be/7pMEQsk3c5Y o The Goldfish: https://youtu.be/Cg-wnQKRHTso Sea Animals: https://youtu.be/Oxw6FoUNeT4 o Ocean: https://youtu.be/gSJ5iljNLlw o Baby Shark Dance: https://youtu.be/XqZsoesa55w o Fish: https://youtu.be/TJN3gJoZqlY o Ocean Animals: https://youtu.be/kOB9KDTN1FA

Participate in ZOOM!

Please watch your emails to get meeting links.Please keep background noise to a minimum.

Thank you!

This week, we are having MUSIC CLASS with Mrs.Corvini on

TUESDAY!

Children-please bring your AQUARIUMS to music class on TUESDAY!

Tuesday 11 am

Storytime/Musict

Family members-please take pictures of your child with his/her AQUARIUM, watching music class on the computer/device!

Please send photos to Mrs. Corvini-jcorvini@shgsyonkers.org

Here’s a fun song about the aquarium and some of the sea creatures who live there!

Did you notice that the screen is in the shape of a box?Please enjoy, “The Aquarium Song.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fG6vcjkznA

PE CLASS with Mr. B!

ART CLASS with Mrs. Hill !

For classes with Mr. B and Mrs. Hill please go to shgsyonkers.org and click on to School Updates, and then scroll down to Class

Pages.