Center/Classroom: Teachers: Week of: (A) General Information Study/Topic - BIG IDEAS this week: In this final week of the unit, we will continue to explore ideas related to preparing and eating foods – with a particular focus on the foods that children eat with their families and on special occasions. Key vocabulary: Cooking cocinando Dinner, feast cena, banquete Holiday, special occasion día festive, ocasión especial Celebration, celebrate celebración, celebrar Family, relatives familia, parientes Friday “To Do” List: Review Planned Read-Alouds; read books through at least once. Create flannel board pieces/pictures for Let’s Eat. Review Small Group Activity forms and gather/create materials, including pumpkin-pie-play dough ingredients and rebus recipe, and space on wall to create family dinner bar graph Gather/create materials for centers and circle time, including cooking props, recipes, spices. SS Week- Support for Dual Language Learners: Provide pictures of families cooking or eating dinner to scaffold children’s comprehension. Familiarize yourself with a few words related to children’s food-related traditions (for ex., pastel = birthday cake), so you can use these in discussions and make the topic relevant to all children. Family/ Community Involvement: Ask parents to send pictures of family celebrations or recipes for important/traditional foods that their family eats during celebrations. Invite family members to come to talk about dinner routines/celebrations with children (B) Materials to Enhance Children’s Play Blocks Dramatic Play Toys and Games Keep: Items from previous weeks that children were particularly engaged with. Add: Tablecloths Cookbooks Mixing bowls/spoons “Recipe” for pumpkin soup and/or birthday cake. Add: Rhyming basket / picture cards
Transition: Music/Movement: SS Song & “Sleeping Giants” (see below) Relaxation: Transition: Closing Circle: Goodbye song whiteboard/pocket chart/etc Music/Movement: Choose 2 Relaxation: Transition: Closing Circle: Review QOTD results with the full group, counting each column and writing the numeral. Goodbye song children. Time permitting, briefly highlight a few concepts of print. Ask children to think about why you might be buying these particular foods? Review daily schedule and rules now and throughout the day Transition: SS Brain Builder- Music/Movement: Choose 2 Relaxation: Transition: 5 Waiting Pumpkins (have visuals) *Five little pumpkins growing on a vine, the first one said I feel fine, the second one said I love the fall, the third one said I’m round as a ball, the fourth one said I smell pumpkin pie and the fifth one said Let’s say goodbye. (be sure to say in Spanish as well) *Choose one other movement song Closing Circle: Goodbye song -SS Skill Activity Transition: Music/Movement: SS Song & choose a pattern song as well (for example clap, snap, tap) Relaxation: Transition: SS Brain Builder- Closing Circle: Goodbye song Group 1: Let’s Eat by Ana Zamorano (first full read-through; Group 1: Feast for Ten / Fiesta para 10 by Cathryn Falwell Group 1:SS Story and Discussion- Group 1: SS Book- Group 2: SS Story and
focus on children’s comprehension, including members of family and unfamiliar food names) Group 2: Feast for Ten / Fiesta para 10 by Cathryn Falwell (read English and Spanish back-to-back, or separately to small groups; focus on the family eating together; make connections to Let’s Eat) (read English and Spanish back-to-back, or separately to small groups; focus on the family eating together; make connections to Let’s Eat) Group 2: Let’s Eat by Ana Zamorano (first full read-through; focus on children’s comprehension, including members of family and unfamiliar food names) Group 2: SS Book- Discussion- Activity Group 1: Family Dinner Wall Graph TS Gold Objectives- 11b,20,a,b,c Group 2: Making Pumpkin Pie Playdough – Part 1 TS Gold Objectives- 9a,s9a,13,17b,s17b Group 1: Making Pumpkin Pie Playdough – Part 1 TS Gold Objectives- 9a,s9a,13,17b,s17b Group 2: Family Dinner Wall Graph TS Gold Objectives- 11b,20,a,b,c Group 1: SS Skill Activity- Group 2: Making Pumpkin Pie Playdough – Part 2 TS Gold Objectives- 9a,s9a,17b,s17b,22 Group 1: Making Pumpkin Pie Playdough – Part 2 TS Gold Objectives- 9a,s9a,17b,s17b,22 Group 2: SS Skill Activity- Special Activities Children will be giants who like to jump! Allow students to jump up and down. When you say “sleeping giants,” children should stop and lie very still on the floor. When you say “waking giants,” children can jump until you say “sleeping giants” again. Variation: use other motor skills (hopping, marching). Mealtime Conversation: QOTD: Does your family ever have other people come eat dinner at your house? (Y/N) Have children answer individually – e.g., during arrival or transition – so that you can ensure each child understands the question as well as responding and engaging in feedback loops.