Remote Learning Unit: Week 8 June 1-5 

 District Unit: This and That   

Grade Pre-K , Week #8 Unit Focus:   Summer Adventures: Camping  

 Week 8: Students in Grade Pre-K will have been exposed to: (Geography: Places to camp ( forest, state parks, etc.) and History: personal experiences and memories (related to camping).) 

● RL.PK.10. Listen actively as an individual and as a member of a group to a variety of age-appropriate literature read aloud. 

● PK.CC.A.2 Recognize and name written numerals 0–10. ● PK.OA.A.1 Use concrete objects to model real-world addition (putting together) 

and subtraction (taking away) problems up through five. ● PreK.ESS.3.2 Observe and discuss the impact of people’s activities on the local 

environment. Directions:   

❏ Monday-Thursday : Students will read the Morning Message and then complete the activities listed either in Choice #1 OR Choice #2. These activities will incorporate all academic areas. If you are unable to complete an activity for that day, please do it when it is convenient for your family, but try to complete it by the end of the week.  ❏ If you would like to complete both Choice #1 & Choice #2 activities of the day, 

that is optional. Please do what works best for your child and family.   

❏ Friday is Family Fun Day. Use this flexible day to complete an enrichment activity of your choice! Suggestions are listed at the end of this remote learning guide.    

❏ Please contact your child’s teacher if you have any questions. Stay healthy and know we are thinking of you!

        

 

DAY #1- Monday, June 1, 2020 Interdisciplinary Lesson: 

Morning Message  Hello boys and girls! Today is Monday and we will begin learning about camping. What do you know about camping?  

Choice #1 

 

Reading & Writing: Maisy Goes Camping Camping is something that is done outdoors. In this story, Maisy and friends find the perfect place to pitch their tent. If you ever camped out in your backyard, what would the perfect place be for the tent? Does your family have a tent?  Science: Construct a simple triangular tent in your living room or your backyard using a rope and a sheet or blanket. Talk about the shape of the tent. Consider camping out together or even having a pretend camp out with your child!and mark it in the calendar.  Math: Pick a date for your out or inside camp out (or even a temporary camp-in movie night in the living room). Make a calendar countdown until the night of the camp out/camp in. How many days will there be until it happens? Check it each day until the day the fun night happens! Additional Supports: Read a bedtime story by flashlight tonight! 

Choice #2  

 

Reading & Writing: Bailey Goes Camping After listening to this story, draw a picture of one thing you learned about something people do when they go camping. Share that picture with your teacher! Science: Make your own binoculars using this video as a guide! Math: Go for a nature walk and use this Summer Scavenger Hunt to make the walk more fun!  Additional Supports: Paint or color a picture of your perfect campsite. 

Special  Music Monday  Pick 1 activity from Music BINGO.  

SEL  ❏ Start out the first week of June with some fun! What's an activity that gets you in the green zone? Do you like to ride a bike? Color? Well go do it (with parents permission), then draw a picture of the activity so you can show everyone how you get in the green zone! 

      

   

DAY #2- Tuesday, June 2, 2020 Interdisciplinary Lesson: 

Morning Message  

Good Morning. Today is Tuesday. Have you ever been camping? Did you sleep in a tent or a camper? Which one would you like to sleep in? Have fun with today’s At Home Learning. 

 

Choice #1 

  

  

Reading & Writing: Flash light reading - Pick your favorite book, grab a flashlight and find a comfy(somewhat dark place) and read with an adult. Draw a picture of your favorite part of the story and an adult can help you label your drawing. Science: Using your flashlight have fun with shadow puppets on the wall Shadow puppets  Math: Using little marshmallows(or small balls of playdough) and toothpicks create shapes. Discuss the shapes, how many sides? Identify items that are that shape. Additional Supports: A Camping We Will Go Sing along. 

Choice #2  

 

Reading & Writing: Clifford's "Camping out"   Science: Create some pet rocks. Go on a wolk and collect some rocks, using paint, markers, googly eyes, and any materials you may want to add to create your pet. Name your pet rocks and write their names on the backside. Math: Count while in the kitchen helping mom and dad with lunch or dinner. Count how many spoons? Forks? Napkins? Any other items you are using in the kitchen. Additional Supports: make smores with the family, either by the firepit or you can make them using the microwave.s’mores 

Special      Artistic Tuesday Choose 1 activity from bingo card 

SEL  ❏ The weather is getting nicer and getting some fresh air is a big help to boosting our mood! Go outside today and find a few objects: ❏ A stick from the ground ❏ A rock that fits in the palm of your hand ❏ A leaf from a tree 

How long did it take you to gather all of these materials? Was it nice to get outside and explore? 

  

    

DAY #3- Wednesday, June 3, 2020 Interdisciplinary Lesson: 

Morning Message

 

Good morning! Today is Global Running Day and World Bicycle Day. Both are great ways to get exercise and both can be done while camping.. Which do you like best? Running or riding a bike?  

Choice #1 

 

Reading & Writing: Pete the Cat Goes Camping Science: Nature Wreaths…Cut the center out of a paper plate. Then 

children can use glue to add nature items that they have found 

outside. They can embellish their wreaths with glitter and ribbon and 

other odds and ends! 

Math: count small rocks and put them into piles of 1,2,3, 4 5, …… and see how high you can go. Additional Supports: make counting fun and play catch or roll a ball to one another while counting. How high can you go as a team? 

Choice #2 

 

Reading & Writing: Ange The Kid Reader: The Most Marshmallows Read Aloud. Do you have a favorite book or story you like to read, talk about, or look at? You could do a short video clip with your favorite book like Ange did and share it with your teacher! Science: S’more Fire Painting: Use a stick and marshmallow(or substitute a q-tip or cotton ball) mix yellow and red paint (food coloring, water, cornstarch recipe) and design a campfire on paper..  Math: Counting Marshmallows Song use cotton balls or tissue squares as marshmallows and count out requested numbers of marshmallows “give me 4”, “give me 8”. Or say “give me” while showing a written numeral. Ultimate Challenge Option: Choose a number between 3 and 7 such as (“5”) and practice counting up to 10 from that number “5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10”. Try doing this from various numbers. Another activity is partner counting. Two people count, taking turns with one person saying the even numbers and the other person saying the odd numbers. Additional Supports: build pretend play skills using a q-tip as a marshmallow on a stick. Action figures or dolls or stuffed animals could be camping. 

Special Wellness Wednesday Pick 1 activity from P.E. & Health BINGO. 

SEL 

 

Gratitude means showing thanks to people in your life. It’s almost the end of the school year so show some gratitude to someone that has helped you learn this year at school. Write them a note or record a video and send it to them (through email or share it through Google Drive). 

It is important to show thanks to the people that help us in life, it teaches us to be more kind! 

  

DAY #4 -Thursday, June 4, 2020 Interdisciplinary Lesson: 

Morning Message  Ohayō furenzu! (Japanese) Today is Thoughtful Thursday. Today’s thought for the day is to think about all the different languages I have said “Good Morning Friends!” to you. What was your favorite? If you would like to hear the way to say them you can go to Google translate and can put what language you would like to hear in the box that says “Translate to” and make sure the first box changes to English.  

Choice #1

 

Reading & Writing: S is for S’mores Make you own alphabet book:  Put the letter at the top of the page and have parents help you write A is for... whatever picture you are going to draw. Example A is for apple and you draw a picture of an apple. You only need 5 pieces of paper. Fold paper in half and cut on fold. Then put all 10 pieces together and fold in half again. Staple to make a book. You should have enough pages to have a title page and a back cover and all the letters.  Science: STEM Challenge: Build a Tent. Build a model size tent out of anything you can find around the house. Blocks, LEGO, Toilet paper tubes, sticks, etc... Or make your own indoor tent with blankets and furniture. Take a picture and show your teacher. Math: Hopscotch - Create your own hopscotch outside. Make the squares and put the numbers in the boxes. In case you don’t know how to play here is a website that explains how to play and variations. How to play Hopscotch. I also included two variations of the game board.    Additional Supports:  For alphabet books you can cut out pictures from magazines pictures to go with letters. Or make a book with just the letters in your name. Make an indoor hopscotch with paper squares or painters tape. 

Choice #2 

 

Reading & Writing: A Camping Spree with Mr. Magee This was a fun book with a lot of rhyming words. Have mom or dad read you the first page again and pick out the rhyming words. Write them if you can. Have your parents help you. There should be seven; one is not a word it is a number.  Science: Solar Oven S’mores. Supplies: pizza box, aluminum foil, plastic wrap, a sheet of black paper, and supplies to make s’mores. The aluminium foil is used to reflect sunlight into the box. The plastic wrap covers an opening in the box and works like a greenhouse, allowing sunlight to pass into the box, while also keeping the heat in. At the bottom of the box, you have black construction paper. This will absorb sunlight and increase the temperature of your DIY solar cooker. Layer your graham cracker and put it into your solar oven. Math: Marshmallow Patterns. Materials: 3 marshmallows, 3 different colors of paint, 3 shallow bowls or sm. paper plates and 1 piece of white construction paper. Put a small amount of paint in bowls/plates. Use marshmallows to make patterns. Make at least 3 different patterns.    

Special  Tech Thursday Pick 1 activity from Technology Bingo     

SEL  

Today be kind! Complete at least five kind acts towards people in your life. It can be a parent, a teacher, a sibling or anyone else you can think of! What did you do to be kind? How did it feel to do something nice for someone else? 

      

DAY #5 -Friday, June 5, 2020 FAMILY FUN FRIDAY! Enrichment 

● Complete unfinished work from this week. 

● Family Decides ● Other 

Academic Choice Activities 

● Reading for enjoyment 

● Practice writing your name  

● ABCYA http://abcya ● Brain Pop https://www.brainpop.com/   ● PBS https://pbskids.org/ 

https://www.pbslearningmedia.org/  ● Epic https://bit.ly/2WYLKgf  

 ● Do some baking with the family ● Help your family with a chore. ● Get Your Wiggles Out Yoga