Week of 2/1 - 2/5

  Zoom meetings scheduled for 

8:30am  & 1:15pm 

same class code and password for both.

REMINDERS!

• Friday half-day for Parent teacher conferences through Zoom
• Please have children complete assignments on Seesaw 
• Please have children do assignments from the blog and send me pictures 

Exploration TWO

Exploration 2: Our Environment  

Essential Question: What can we discover about our community?

Focus Area: Building 

Weekly Focus: Construction

Vocabulary words: 

Construction 

hammer

Screwdriver 

drill

Monday & Tuesday 

Classes Cancelled due to winter storm

Wednesday

Book: Dreaming Up: a celebration pf building 

This week we will be focusing on how buildings are built or constructed.

Allow children to watch this video about what being a construction worker is like... CLICK HERE

Ask your children questions about the video

Grossmotor: exercise song for kids 

Letter Aa:  letter Aa song 

have children write the letter Aa 3x's

Thursday

Book: Dreaming Up: a celebration pf building 

This week we will be focusing on how buildings are built or constructed.

click here to view the video on construction 

Grossmotor: exercise song for kids 

Letter Aa:  letter Aa song 

have children write the letter Aa 3x's

Friday 

Book: My Little Cities New York by Jennifer Adams

Discuss with your children about living in New York what are some places to visit. Time Square, Museums, Statue of liberty and show them pictures. Remind the children that all of these buildings and places were built by people, construction workers. 

Activity: have children draw their own New York City Building. 

Grossmotor: exercise song for kids 

Letter Aa:  letter Aa song 

have children write the letter Aa 3x's

Workbook pages 71 - 73  for the weekend. 

click here to view lesson plan

Week 1/25 - 1/29

 Zoom meetings scheduled for 

8:30am 

1:15pm 

same class code and password for both.

REMINDERS!

• Please have children complete assignments on Seesaw 
• Please have children do assignments from the blog and send me pictures 

Exploration TWO

Exploration 2: Our Environment  

Essential Question: What can we discover about our community?

Focus Area: Investigating 

Weekly Focus: Make and Share Conclusions 

Vocabulary words: 

Detective

Research 

Tools

Monday 

Step Gently Out by Helen Frost

ACTIVITY : today have children look at different picture of insect on the internet. click here to watch this video about insects

Wednesday

Book: The Snowy Day

Activity: if possible take children on a walk to the park and allow them to investigate and play with the snow.

Thursday &Friday 

Book: Step Gently Out by Helen Frost

Activity : take children on a walk and allow them to look around? Ask them questions about what they see around them?

park, buildings, cars, trucks, stores, pets and so on.

Workbooks: pages 66 - 70

click here to view lesson plan

Week of 1/18 - 1/22

 

Zoom meetings scheduled for 

8:30am 

1:15pm 

same class code and password for both.

Miss Sanchez will be out Tuesday and Wednesday no Zoom meetings those days. 

REMINDERS!

• Please have children complete assignments on Seesaw 
• Please have children do assignments from the blog and send me pictures 

Exploration TWO

Exploration 2: Our Environment  

Essential Question: What can we discover about our community?

Focus Area: Investigating 

Weekly Focus: 

Vocabulary words: 

share 

suspect 

investigate 

think 

Tuesday 

Book: Red Is a Dragon: A book of colors 

by Roseanne Thong

Activity:have children pick one color and find different things around home that are the color of their choice, make a list of what they have discovered and have them draw which they liked best. 

Gross motor: fitness song

Wednesday 

Book: Have You Seen My Monster? by Steve Light

Activity: have children play with shapes, counting how many sides the shapes have in total.

Gross motor: fitness song

Thursday 

Book: Float by Daniel Miyares

Activity: Have children fill up a bucket of water and play with a few water toys. 

Ask them questions like: does it sink? Does it float? What happens if? What do you notice?  I wonder what happens if....?

Gross motor: fitness song

WORKBOOK PAGES 61, 62, 63

Friday

click here to view lesson plan

Week of 1/11 - 1/15

Zoom meetings scheduled for 

8:30am 

1:15pm 

same class code and password for both.

Miss Sanchez will be out Tuesday and Wednesday no Zoom meetings those days. 

REMINDERS!

• Please have children complete assignments on Seesaw 
• Please have children do assignments from the blog and send me pictures 

Exploration TWO

Exploration 2: Our Environment  

Essential Question: What can we discover about our community?

Focus Area: Investigating 

Weekly Focus: Look Closely

Vocabulary words: 

Detective 

Suspect 

Monday

Book: Birds by Kevin Henkes

Activity 

Science: have children investigate birds. What are the body parts of a birds body?

Miss sanchez out 

Tuesday and Wednesday 

Thursday and Friday

Must do seesaw activities

Art: have children Draw a bird. Within the bird have children add all the detail he or she investigated as parts of birds. 

ask the children questions about their illustration. 

 please click here to view lesson plan

Week of 1/4 - 1/8

 

Happy  New Years!

Zoom meetings scheduled for 

8:30am 

1:15pm 

same class code and password for both.

REMINDERS!

• Please have children complete assignments on Seesaw 
• Please have children do assignments from the blog and send me pictures 

Exploration TWO

Exploration 2: Our Environment  

Essential Question: What can we discover about our community?

Focus Area: Investigating 

Weekly Focus: What to Investigate?

Vocabulary words: 

Idea

think 

Monday

BOOK: Best in snow by April Pulley Sayre

Activity: science: have children fill up a cup of water. Then simply place it in the freezer until it freezes. Next take it out and have children observe it. Ask the children to investigate what happened to the water. 

Tuesday 

BOOK: I Went Walking by Sue William

Activity: science: have your child pick an animal mentioned in the book and investigate information about the animal of his or her choice. Have children draw a picture and please write the details you child notices about the animal. 

Workbook: page 55, 56, 57

Wednesday

Book: Bugs! Bugs! Bugs! by Bob Barner

Activity: Math : counting bugs. have children gather a few toy bugs or toy animals and have them separate them in small groups and help them count how many they have. 

Workbook: 58 - 59

Thursday

Book: Mouse Paint by Ellen Stoll Walsh

Activity: Art: have children investigate what colors they can make by mixing colors. 

please send me picture and complete seesaw assignments 

Workbook: 60

please click here to view lesson plan! 

Week of 12/14 - 12/18

Zoom meetings scheduled for 

8:30am 

1:15pm 

same class code and password for both.

REMINDERS!

• Please have children complete assignments on Seesaw 

Exploration TWO

Exploration 2: Our Environment  

Essential Question: What can we discover about our community?

Focus Area: Seeing

Weekly Focus: Objects All Around Us 

Monday

BOOK: Row Row Row Your Boat by Jane Cabrera 

Activity: play a game of I-spy with your children. Name things that are around you and have them do the same. 

Tuesday 

Bugs! Bugs! Bugs! By BOB BARNE

Activity: have children draw or paint some of the bugs they have seen around them. Have them name the bugs and also speak about the bugs they drew. 

Workbook: 54

Wednesday

Book: Race Car Count by Rebecca Kai Dotlich

Activity: have children play with toy cars. As they play have them line them up and count them. 

Questions:  How many cars do you have?

What colors are your cars?

Which one is your favorite?

please click here to view lesson plan! 

Week of 12/7 - 12/11

 Zoom meeting scheduled for 

8:30am 

1:15pm 

same class code and password for both.

REMINDERS!

• Please have children complete assignments on Seesaw 

Exploration TWO

Exploration 2: Our Environment  

Essential Question: What can we discover about our community?

Focus Area: Seeing

Weekly Focus: Our Physical Characteristics 

Monday

Book: I Went Walking by Sue Williams

Questions: 

How did the child in this book feel when he saw the cat? How do you know?

How did the child in this book feel when he saw the dog? How do you know?

Why do you think the animals followed the child?

Activity: have children play a game where they walk around the house and name a few things that they see. If the items are small and light have them collect the items and count how many items they collected. 

Seesaw activity posted.

Make sure you have the class seesaw app not the family seesaw the assignments won't be found there. 

Workbook page: 50

Grossmotor: Do the bear walk 

Tuesday

Book: Have You Seen My Monster by Steve Light 

What shapes do you see?

What color are the shapes?

Activity: have children make a purple monster like the one in the book 

Seesaw activity posted.

Make sure you have the class seesaw app not the family seesaw the assignments won't be found there. 

Workbook page: 51

Grossmotor: Do the bear walk 

Wednesday

Book: I Went Walking by Sue Williams

Questions: 

How did the child in this book feel when he saw the cat? How do you know?

How did the child in this book feel when he saw the dog? How do you know?

Why do you think the animals followed the child?

Activity: Have your child paint a self portrait 

Seesaw activity posted.

Make sure you have the class seesaw app not the family seesaw the assignments won't be found there. 

Workbook: finish all pages up to page 52

Grossmotor: Do the bear walk 

Thursday

Book: Have You Seen My Monster by Steve Light 

What shapes do you see?

What color are the shapes?

Activity: cut shapes out from construction paper. Have children put the shapes together too make themselves. Have children point out what she is being used for what body part. EX. circle for head, triangle for feet exc. 

Seesaw activity posted.

Make sure you have the class seesaw app not the family seesaw the assignments won't be found there. 

Workbook: page 53

Grossmotor: Do the bear walk 

 click here to view lesson plan