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Starfall® Pre K Unit 5: Animals Everywhere Week 17: Animals in the Air and Sea Overview & Preparation 386 Learning Centers 390 Day 1 Introduce Birds . .393 Introduce /d/. .394 Introduce The Ugly Duckling. .395 Play “High or Low” . .396 Day 2 Ways People Feel . .397 Introduce Dd, List Dd Words, Asl Dd . .399 Sequence The Ugly Duckling . .400 Create a Class Book: “If I Were a Bird”. .400 Day 3 Introduce Ocean Animals. .401 Introduce Short /o/. .402 Introduce Dolphins Are Not Fish! . .402 Create an Octopus. .403 Day 4 Ocean Mural . .404 Introduce Oo, List Oo Words, ASL Oo. .405 Dolphins and Whales . .406 Sink or Float?. .406 Day 5 Rhyming Words: “Down By the Bay”. .407 Introduce Final /d/ . .408 Teacher’s Literature Choice: The Ocean. .409 WWeekeek 117:7: AAnimalsnimals iinn tthehe AAirir aandnd SeaSea This week you will teach the children about animals that can fl y and those that live in water. They will learn that many of the animals that live in water are not fi sh. The children will also: • learn /d/ and short o and identify initial /d/ and /o/ and fi nal /d/ words • identify the numerals one through nine and determine which is the higher and which is the lower numeral in a pair Dd • classify animals • compare and contrast dolphins and whales • discuss possible lessons that could be learned through a story • project appropriate emotions for a variety of situations Oo • predict whether objects will sink or fl oat and verify their predictions Starfall Books & Other Media Dolphins Are Not Fish! by Stephen Schutz Humpback Whales by Stephen Schutz The Ugly Duckling as told by Brandi Chase The Ugly Duckling Audio CD WEEK 17 —OVERVIEW 17 WEEK The Ugly Duckling Sequence Cards ABC for Gingerbread Boy and Me by Starfall Emotion Cards Starfall American Sign Language Poster Starfall’s Selected Nursery Rhymes Starfall Sing-Along Volume 2 Preparation Day One Morning Meeting — Prepare a sheet of chart paper with the headings “Birds that fl y” and “Birds that don’t fl y” and draw a vertical line down the center to create two columns. You will also need a collection of books and/or magazines that feature birds. Day Two Small Group — Have the list of birds from Day 1 available. 386 UNIT 5 Day 1 Day Three Did you know that Morning Meeting — Prepare a colorful crepe paper streamer for each child. Animals in the Air and Sea birds can be pets, Week 17: Small Group — You will need eight crepe paper or construction paper strips per child live on farms, and and one paper plate for each two children in the class (each child will have one-half live in the wild? of a plate). Your pal, Gingerbread Boy Day Four Morning Meeting — Paint a large piece of mural paper blue, or have a blue twin-sized bed sheet available. Place double-sided tape on the back of the designated Picture Day 2 Cards prior to this activity. Have you ever wanted Prepare a sentence strip that reads, My favorite ocean animal is (blank) because (blank). to fly like a bird? I was surprised to see a Small Group — You will need a tub of water and several items such as a sponge, cork, flock of birds flying all wooden block, toy car, crayon, scissors, large paper clip and plastic straw, as well as together the other day. two containers labeled “sink” and “fl oat.” Love, Day Five Gingerbread Boy Morning Meeting — Optional: Have a small watermelon available. Day 3 Story Time — Select a favorite book about the ocean to share. Suggestions include: Do you like to go to • Commotion in the Ocean by Giles Andreae the beach and swim • Over in the Ocean: In a Coral Reef by Marianne Berkes in the ocean? The beach is one of my • The Underwater Alphabet Book by Jerry Pallotta favorite places. Your friend, Snack Suggestion Ingredients Place some of each ingredient on a paper plate for Gingerbread Boy each child. Children pretend to fi sh by dipping pretzels F Paper plate for each child into the softened cream cheesee or F Small stick pretzels Day 4 peanut butter. They stick the F Gold Fish crackers pretzels to the goldfi sh or F Ocean-shaped fruit snacks Have you ever wished fruit snack to catch fi sh. F Softened cream cheese you could spend a day in the ocean? (If no one is allergic to peanut That would be fun! products, use peanut butter for Your pal, a healthier snack.) Gingerbread Boy Outside Activity Designate two safe points, such as trees, with some distance Gross Motor Skills K Day 5 between them. Combines a sequence Pre of large motor skills One child (hen or rooster) tries to round up the rest of the Have you ever seen Moves with balance watermelons growing children (chicks). He or she calls for the chicks and they run and control from one point to the other. If they are tagged, the chicks down by the bay? stay in the middle and help the hen or the rooster. I did once! Starfall Love, Children take turns as the hen or rooster. Gingerbread Boy UNIT 5 387 WWEEKEEK 1177 Day One Day Two GATHERING ROUTINE Morning Meeting Gingerbread Boy’s Message Gingerbread Boy’s Message Classify birds Emotions Cards Vocabulary: penguin, ostrich, “Once I Saw a Little Bird” duck, swan, goose, owl Vocabulary: surprised, “Here We Go Round the excited, curious, embarrassed, Mulberry Bush” disappointed, lonely, proud LEARNING CENTERS Circle Time Phonological Awareness: Phonological Awareness: Compound words Isolating /b/ Introduce and listen for /d/ Introduce Dd Dd “Duck” riddle ABC for Gingerbread Boy and Me “Diddle, Diddle, Dumpling” List initial /d/ words The Ugly Duckling Sequence The Ugly Duckling WEEK 17 —OVERVIEW 17 WEEK Story Time “Six Little Ducks” Cover and pages of a book Vocabulary: wetlands, reeds, rushes Small Group & Dice Cards: 1-6 Write and illustrate sentences about being birds for class book Exploration Button Cards: 1-6 “High or Low” 388 UNIT 5 Day Three Day Four Day Five GATHERING ROUTINE Gingerbread Boy’s Message Gingerbread Boy’s Message Gingerbread Boy’s Message Introduce Ocean Animals Ocean Mural “Down by the Bay” “Oceans” Favorite ocean animals Rhyming words Vocabulary: ocean Vocabulary: bay LEARNING CENTERS Phonological Awareness: Phonological Awareness: Phonological Awareness: Blending onset and rime Syllables Words in a Sentence Introduce short o ABC for Gingerbread Boy and Me “Where Is /d/?” “Octopus” riddle Introduce Oo Introduce fi nal /d/ Vocabulary: octopus List initial “Where Is /o/?” Oo /o/ words Dolphins Are Dolphins Are Teacher’s Literature Choice: Not Fish! Not Fish! The Ocean Humpback Whales Discuss photographs/nonfi ction Compare/contrast dolphins and whales “Octopus “ riddle Predict and verify if items will Complete projects or conduct sink or fl oat observations and individual Create octopi assessments Vocabulary: half UNIT 5 389 WWEEKEEK 1177 Computer Center LEARNING Materials CENTERS Activity — Children enjoy Numbers: 0-9, Talking Library: “Over in the Meadow” and also review F Computers set up to access Starfall.com Media & Technology /m/ and /f/, and reinforce /d/ at ABCs: M, F, and D. F Headsets Uses technology to explore and review Interaction & Observation information • Be sure the Computer Center is tailored to your children’s Enjoys electronic forms needs and comfort. Children’s legs should be positioned comfortably, of storybooks and informational texts with their feet fl at on the fl oor. Align the tops of the monitors with the foreheads of the children, who should be seated about two feet away. Position the monitors to minimize glare and refl ections, making sure windows or other light sources are not directly visible. Art Center Materials Creative Arts Activity — Each child chooses his or her favorite fairy F One 9"x12" sheet of Manila paper Shows care and tale presented thus far, and illustrates the story on the top persistence in a variety half of the page. folded in half for each child of art projects F Pencils, crayons, markers Emergent Writing Children dictate sentences about their illustrations for you to Optional: Demonstrates write on the bottom half. Leave room under the dictations so understanding of the F The Ugly Duckling as told by connections among their the children can copy their sentences. Write the names of the Brandi Chase own ideas, experiences, fairy tales at the top of the pages, or children copy the titles and written expression from the fairy tale books. F Tempera paint F Feathers from Week 16 Compile the drawings into a class fairy tale book. F Art paper Optional Activity: After The Ugly Duckling is introduced, place the book near the Art Center as a reference, and give the children feathers to use as brushes.