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Read aloud book connected to center play....then act it out lifting up the roles of characters. Then scaffold during play to support roles.

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Suggested Text List for Preschool Inquiry Studies

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Suggested Text List for Preschool Inquiry Studies

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Please add to this list as you find amazing texts that align to the inquiry study!

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Create a new spreadsheet and edit with others at the same time -- from your computer, phone or tablet. Get stuff done with or without an internet connection. Use Sheets to edit Excel files. Free from Google.

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Planning for Dramatic Play Center Construction

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Planning for Dramatic Play Center Construction

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Planning together for the construction of our Dramatic Play area.  I will guide them to constructing a boat (Mayflower) and a Log Cabin.

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The gist behind long-term studies and the use of "change lines"/timelines in preschool.

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The gist behind long-term studies and the use of "change lines"/timelines in preschool.

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https://drive.google.com/file/d/1MYhmffPWF8gWwjA7GOIlyR14nF7eoKT9/view?usp=sharing

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How might we support students with making connections between story sequencing and sequencing small moments in their lives?

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Scaffolding instruction by providing prompts for each section of the story map you are using. For example, in the "Beginning" box of your map, write in prompts such as: Who is the story about? Where does the story happen?

Varying the complexity of story maps and sequencing words used. Some students may benefit from the very simple beginning-middle-end format. More complex sequences, such as first-next-then-last, can be used with students who are ready.

Using wordless books. There are many wordless books that can be used for sequencing with younger students and with English language learners or students with limited English proficiency. For younger students, Pancakes for Breakfast by Tomie dePaola, which humorously details a woman making pancakes from scratch, or the wordless adventures by Mark Newgarden about a small dog named Bow-Wow (e.g., Bow-Wow Bugs a Bug) are good options. Books by Barbara Lehmann and David Weisner are helpful for older or more sophisticated students practicing sequencing.

Using books in translation for picture sequencing activities. Providing English-learners with a copy of the text in their first language allows them to participate in sequencing and demonstrate their understanding of the concept and the content.

Modeling sequencing with a smaller group of students using a familiar book with a very clear narrative structure to help students understand each story component.

Extend the learning

Writing

Students can use sequencing words and charts to help them write summaries of texts they have read or heard. They can also use sequencing as a pre-writing technique for planning their own writing or use a sequencing word anchor chart as a writing tool.

Math

Most math curricula include worksheets on ordinal numbers (first, second, third, etc). You can support students' sequencing ability by encouraging the use of vocabulary words such as "What bead goes first? Then which bead? Which bead is third?" Encouraging students to write out the steps for solving addition and subtraction problems that include regrouping is an excellent way to have them think through the steps in a logical order.

Science

Scientific inquiry also develops sequencing skills. In order to study or observe changes in something, students must follow along and record, in sequential order, what they notice. Students can document their observations by writing or drawing.

Social Studies

Timelines are a great way to teach sequence in social studies. Students may enjoy making a timeline of their own lives, including important milestones such as when they learned to walk or talk or when they first wrote their name or rode a bike. Once students understand the process of charting important milestones on a timeline, topics from the social studies curricula can be used. Try this printable timeline template.

Other ideas for sequencing

Arts and crafts activities. Quilt-making and other arts and craft activities may reinforce the idea of sequencing and also introduce math concepts (measurement, addition & subtraction and basic computation, etc). Alex Henderson's Kids Start Quilting with Alex Anderson: 7 Fun & Easy Projects Quilts for Kids by Kids, Tips for Quilting with Children provides easy instructions for adults quilting with children.

Cookbooks for children can reinforce math concepts (measurement, etc) and sequencing while making connections to students' reading. The Little House Cookbook: Frontier Foods from Laura Ingalls Wilder's Classic Stories by Barbara Walker presents recipes for foods mentioned in the Little House series by Laura Ingalls Wilder.

Everyday activities. Create a sequence page for a simple activity around the house or at school. Fold a blank piece of paper into squares. Start with 4 large squares. For older students, create more squares. Ask kids to draw the steps they know in the order in which the steps occur. For example, draw each step it takes to make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich or to brush their teeth.

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Story Sequence | Classroom Strategy | Reading Rockets

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Sequencing refers to the identification of the components of a story - the beginning, middle, and end - and also to the ability to retell the events within a given text in the order in which they occurred. The ability to sequence events in a text is a key comprehension strategy, especially for narrative texts.

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Inspired from a STEM book.
Unit: Traditions.
Literacy Connection: Feast for Ten, We Eat Dinner in the Bathtub., King Big Good In The Bathtub.
Description: Children collaborate to create a table (i.e. identify parts to the table, find the same size block for the legs) Children can design place-mates and sculpture food (AKA: play-dough, model magic,) Children can extend the project In to the kitchen where children can "bake, and cook" items for the table, pies, etc. And children in the Writing Center can create menus (in a variety of forms.)

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Introducing weaving with loom, yarn, and ribbons. Connect to center play. Transfer this learning to weaving place mats for Thanksgiving feast.

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We could look at musical instruments from the past and and compare them to music instruments now. Kids could make the instruments in the art center. 

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We could look at musical instruments from the past and and compare them to music instruments now. Kids could make the instruments in the art center. 

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Read aloud book connected to center play....then act it out lifting up the roles of characters. Then scaffold during play to support roles.

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Have various photographs of familiar items ranging from different time periods. Have students "sort" or organize which photos they believe to be the oldest to the most recent, inquire about what observations they make in order to come up with their decisions.

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Have a growth chart in the classroom where you can chart all of your students heights now.  You could then connect that with your Change- Line and show them how much they've grown compared to how long they were as a baby. 

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Have a growth chart in the classroom where you can chart all of your students heights now.  You could then connect that with your Change- Line and show them how much they've grown compared to how long they were as a baby. 

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Dinosaurs/fossils  label each fossil the name of the dinosaurs

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Dinosaurs/fossils  label each fossil the name of the dinosaurs

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Past, present and future drawings of self bring to writing. Have students label (eg. "this is when I was a baby..."). Have labels at writing center. Make copies of pictures to have at writing. 

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Past, present and future drawings of self bring to writing. Have students label (eg. "this is when I was a baby..."). Have labels at writing center. Make copies of pictures to have at writing. 

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birthday party- students will make materials  in art center to put in dramatic play. ex: party sign, party hat, invitations, materials for a cake, wrapping presents, pipe cleaners for candles, etc. 

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birthday party- students will make materials  in art center to put in dramatic play. ex: party sign, party hat, invitations, materials for a cake, wrapping presents, pipe cleaners for candles, etc. 

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Using Scenes to Capture the Passage of Time

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Using Scenes to Capture the Passage of Time

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https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NDLGUgXpql0qVBsyERDlpAZ30x2Ce7HD/view?usp=sharing

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Visit the Jeffco Career Links Website to locate your assigned Career Links Specialist.  They are here to assist you with experiential learning opportunities, collaborative lesson planning and other support you might need.

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Linking Students from Classroom to Careers

Jeffco Career Links is a one-stop resource for industries and schools. Our goal is to provide resources and tools in order to build connections between classrooms and careers. In addition, Career Links will support the work-based learning opportunities for students to ensure that their experiences are connected to their learning targets. The Career Links team is committed to providing support to your school in order to support quality programming for your students.

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Jeffco Career Links is a one-stop resource for industries and schools. Our goal is to provide resources and tools in order to build connections between classrooms and careers. In addition, Career Links will support the work-based learning opportunities for students to ensure that their experiences are connected to their learning targets.

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Our classrooms created a portal by cutting a hole in a shower curtain and taping a hula hoop around the hole. We took pictures of each center, taped them to the curtain, and made buttons for the students to "push" and transport to their center.

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Focus Lesson: Create puppets that reflect characters from a favorite read aloud. Ask a few students to model using the puppets to reinact the story, focusing on retelling as teacher shows the pictures in the read aloud.                  Center activtiy:Creating puppets to reenact, sequence, and retell favorite stories, family traditions, a sequence of events

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Focus Lesson: Create puppets that reflect characters from a favorite read aloud. Ask a few students to model using the puppets to reinact the story, focusing on retelling as teacher shows the pictures in the read aloud.                  Center activtiy:Creating puppets to reenact, sequence, and retell favorite stories, family traditions, a sequence of events

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CAS Standard(s) Addressed:
Drama & Theater Arts: Create characters and environments using imagination and background knowledge through dramatic play or guided drama experience (story drama, creative drama, movement stories, pantomimes, puppetry, etc.). (DTA 1.1.a)
Drama & Theater Arts: Investigate story in dramatic play or a guided drama experience (e.g. story drama, creative drama, movement stories, pantomimes, puppetry, etc). (DTA 3.3.a)
Reading, Writing, Communicating: Retell stories or information from books through conversation, artistic works, creative movement, or drama. (RWC 2.1.f)
TS GOLD Domains Addressed:
Engages in socio-dramatic play
Retells stories

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Puppets are a great way for kids to get crafty and creative with characters!

Telling stories is a huge part of childhood, and so much more fun and easy with puppets. These 25 Playful Puppet Crafts for Kids will help your kids come up with characters for their stories, and stretch their imaginations. Have fun!

25 Playful Puppet Crafts For Kids

These turkey puppets are made from cereal boxes!

Five little farm animals went out to play...on your child's fingers.

These classic paper sack puppets are super fun and will tell amazing stories.

Cute Crow puppets are funny, easy, and great decorations for Halloween.

These crazy fantasy puppets are wiggly, giggly, and full of silly fun.

Five little Christmas trees on your fingers... The googly eyes truly make these great, don't they?

Wiggly Halloween stick puppets are easy to make and fun to play with.

The itsy bitsy spider not only crawled up the spout, but has four wiggly fingers to help his journey.

Your kiddo can draw their own character and turn it into a puppet with this easy craft!

Minion fingers are up to no good...but boy are they cute!

These ghost fingers are spooky fun...to play with!

And for scary fun, check out these monster fingers. Great for a Halloween costume, don'tcha think?

This easy no-sew reindeer is a sock puppet anyone can make.

Make these funny clowns using paint stir sticks. You'll have a silly great time.

This dragon puppet looks like he breathes fire, and can actually talk!

Crazy monster puppets made from lunch sacks are a fun way to get into the monster spirit.

And this witch puppet has wiggly finger hair and will put a spell on you...with her cuteness!

These personalized finger puppets are a great way to let your kiddo tell stories about their own family.

Make these super easy pipe cleaner puppets next time you have a rainy afternoon and want a fun, simple craft.

This printable horse puppet fits over a finger and can shake his horsey main.

How adorable is this sweet sock puppet? Believe it or not, he's also super simple to make!

Want to make some puppets but don't have much time? These puppets are made from stickers! Smart!

Learn how to make this talking puppet. It might look hard, but it's really super simple.

These paper sack Pilgrim and Indian puppets are a great way to talk about Thanksgiving.

Have even more Thanksgiving fun with this adorable turkey finger puppet. Gobble, Gobble!

Via Handmade Charolotte

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Puppets are a great way for kids to get crafty and creative with characters! Telling stories is a huge part of childhood, and so much more fun and easy with puppets. These 25 Playful Puppet Crafts for Kids will help your kids come up with characters for their stories, and stretch their imaginations.

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For children who are interested, make yarn dolls to play with during Purposeful Play. 

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For children who are interested, make yarn dolls to play with during Purposeful Play. 

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Create drawings to document landmarks they pass along their way to school. Use drawings to create buildings of these places and "map" them out in the building area.

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Little Fox Animated Stories for Kids

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Long Ago and Now | Culture and History | Time | Little Fox | Bedtime Stories

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Pictures of us at babies and now

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Use various art materials (yarn, paper towel tubes, Popsicle sticks, ...) to create babies that can be used in dramatic play, literacy, blocks.

Read: When I Was Four Years Old by Jamie Lee Curtis to connect to "I used to..."; "now I...)

TS GOLD Social Studies: Demonstrate knowledge about ourselves; Explore changes related to familiar people or places. Cognitive: remembers and connects experiences; 12 a. recognizes and recall; tells about an experience

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Picture list for ideas of what to put in the time capsule. Draw a picture of self & family. Use modeling clay to form themselves. Height/weight objects such as yarn or a strip of construction paper write a number. Use a survey to access basic knowledge then ask predicting questions on what it will look like at the end of the school year. (Relates to Math standard measurement & different attributes Math PreK 3 data statistics, probability:  S.S. standard 3.1 past, present, future.)

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The fall, the beginning of the school year, is a great time for an All About Me theme or a family theme. September also brings Grandparents Day (second Sunday in September). This activity is a fun way to make family pictures and develop some fine motor control at the same time. (Or your children may want to create fun circle prints without making faces at all.)

Family Faces from Stamped Circles
Materials

Washable Stamp Pads

Paper cups or other circle-making items

Paper

Gel pens or washable markers

Tray

Preparation
Gather items to make circles. We have used paper cups (3-oz size works great), film canisters, pet food cups, circle cookie cutters, PVC connectors, and even marker lids. Sometimes I use several different things to offer different sizes. Sometimes I only put out a 1-2 types of items. Kids will enjoy the different possibilities.

Arrange the items on a tray. I've found that a tray keeps everything contained.

Create Family Portraits

Talk about families. You may want to read a book about families or encourage each child to count the number of people in his family.

Invite kids to press the cups or other items onto the stamp pads and then onto paper to make circles. Then they can draw faces inside the circles with pens or markers. Encourage older kids to print names of their family members on the faces.

Compare different quantities of families. Talk about how families are the same and how they are different. Kids may want to include extended family members or create in other ways. Encourage their creativity as you talk about families.

Tips, Tricks, and Adaptations

We like to use different colors of ink pads. But the colors are easily mixed and transferred. Show kids how to clean an item before they return it to the tray. We placed a wet paper towel on the tray to help with this cleaning process. A few other damp paper towels on the table can be helpful, too.

Create a gift for a parent or grandparent. Tell kids to make faces of themselves and the parent/grandparent on heavyweight paper. Print a special message (dictated by the child or written by the child). Use colored tape around the picture to create a frame and add yarn for a hanger or magnets to the back.

Use paint instead of ink pads. You will need to wait longer for the paint circles to dry or risk smearing the paint and getting it on hands as kids draw faces. (I don't mind that but your kids may.)

Use fingerprints to make the faces instead of pens or markers. Invite a child to press his finger on the ink pad and then onto the paper to make faces.

BIO: Scott Wiley, an early childhood educator for 30 years, is managing editor for Pre-K Pages. His blog Brick by Brick explores the connection between play and learning. Connect with Scott on Twitter, Facebook, and Pinterest.

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Family Faces from Stamped Circles - Pre-K Pages

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The fall, the beginning of the school year, is a great time for an All About Me theme or a family theme. September also brings Grandparents Day (second Sunday in September). This activity is a fun way to make family pictures and develop some fine motor control at the same time.

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time line or change line with pictures of activities that they have done in class throughout the year.

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time line or change line with pictures of activities that they have done in class throughout the year.

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From PBS LearningMedia

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Picturing the Past | Everyday Learning | PBS LearningMedia

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In this animated video, a child looks at photographs of family members and events, making connections between the images she sees and her own experiences. The video helps young viewers understand and apply the concepts of past, present, and future.