PK Inquiry Study #3/#7 Guidance for Lesson Designs and Play Scenarios by Jeffco Early Learning

PK Inquiry Study #3/#7 Guidance for Lesson Designs and Play Scenarios by Jeffco Early Learning https://padlet.com/jeffcoearlylearning/ibmsurpkv9d11627332141 en-us 2019-10-15 21:57:26 UTC 2025-12-04 17:03:28 UTC hello@padlet.com Jeffco's Career Links Support Team jeffcoearlylearning https://padlet.com/jeffcoearlylearning/ibmsurpkv9d11627332141/wish/404678524 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.]]> 2019-10-30 19:16:02 UTC https://padlet.com/jeffcoearlylearning/ibmsurpkv9d11627332141/wish/404678524 Using Scenes to Capture the Passage of Time cmoats https://padlet.com/jeffcoearlylearning/ibmsurpkv9d11627332141/wish/405176172 https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NDLGUgXpql0qVBsyERDlpAZ30x2Ce7HD/view?usp=sharing

]]> 2019-10-31 18:45:44 UTC https://padlet.com/jeffcoearlylearning/ibmsurpkv9d11627332141/wish/405176172 The gist behind long-term studies and the use of "change lines"/timelines in preschool. cmoats https://padlet.com/jeffcoearlylearning/ibmsurpkv9d11627332141/wish/405182588 https://drive.google.com/file/d/1MYhmffPWF8gWwjA7GOIlyR14nF7eoKT9/view?usp=sharing]]> 2019-10-31 18:57:26 UTC https://padlet.com/jeffcoearlylearning/ibmsurpkv9d11627332141/wish/405182588 cmoats https://padlet.com/jeffcoearlylearning/ibmsurpkv9d11627332141/wish/405201543 How might we support students with making connections between story sequencing and sequencing small moments in their lives?]]> 2019-10-31 19:35:38 UTC https://padlet.com/jeffcoearlylearning/ibmsurpkv9d11627332141/wish/405201543 Using Guest Experts in Your Classroom jeffcoearlylearning https://padlet.com/jeffcoearlylearning/ibmsurpkv9d11627332141/wish/405646398 https://drive.google.com/open?id=1c42tPJjgYGYbXTVSMscqfybTKLeYtcNJ]]> 2019-11-01 21:35:22 UTC https://padlet.com/jeffcoearlylearning/ibmsurpkv9d11627332141/wish/405646398 Family Faces from Stamping Circles jeffcoearlylearning https://padlet.com/jeffcoearlylearning/ibmsurpkv9d11627332141/wish/407686757 2019-11-06 19:18:48 UTC https://padlet.com/jeffcoearlylearning/ibmsurpkv9d11627332141/wish/407686757 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 jeffcoearlylearning https://padlet.com/jeffcoearlylearning/ibmsurpkv9d11627332141/wish/407701457 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]]> 2019-11-06 19:37:50 UTC https://padlet.com/jeffcoearlylearning/ibmsurpkv9d11627332141/wish/407701457 Time Capsule https://padlet.com/jeffcoearlylearning/ibmsurpkv9d11627332141/wish/408418552 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.)

]]> 2019-11-07 23:45:18 UTC https://padlet.com/jeffcoearlylearning/ibmsurpkv9d11627332141/wish/408418552 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. https://padlet.com/jeffcoearlylearning/ibmsurpkv9d11627332141/wish/408419059 2019-11-07 23:47:42 UTC https://padlet.com/jeffcoearlylearning/ibmsurpkv9d11627332141/wish/408419059 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. https://padlet.com/jeffcoearlylearning/ibmsurpkv9d11627332141/wish/408419250

]]> 2019-11-07 23:48:28 UTC https://padlet.com/jeffcoearlylearning/ibmsurpkv9d11627332141/wish/408419250 time line or change line with pictures of activities that they have done in class throughout the year. https://padlet.com/jeffcoearlylearning/ibmsurpkv9d11627332141/wish/408419535 2019-11-07 23:49:42 UTC https://padlet.com/jeffcoearlylearning/ibmsurpkv9d11627332141/wish/408419535 Table Construction https://padlet.com/jeffcoearlylearning/ibmsurpkv9d11627332141/wish/408419845 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.)]]> 2019-11-07 23:51:15 UTC https://padlet.com/jeffcoearlylearning/ibmsurpkv9d11627332141/wish/408419845 https://padlet.com/jeffcoearlylearning/ibmsurpkv9d11627332141/wish/408419846 Pictures of us at babies and now ]]> 2019-11-07 23:51:15 UTC https://padlet.com/jeffcoearlylearning/ibmsurpkv9d11627332141/wish/408419846 Dinosaurs/fossils label each fossil the name of the dinosaurs https://padlet.com/jeffcoearlylearning/ibmsurpkv9d11627332141/wish/408420633 2019-11-07 23:54:38 UTC https://padlet.com/jeffcoearlylearning/ibmsurpkv9d11627332141/wish/408420633 Creating ourselves as babies soryshch https://padlet.com/jeffcoearlylearning/ibmsurpkv9d11627332141/wish/408420817 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]]> 2019-11-07 23:55:20 UTC https://padlet.com/jeffcoearlylearning/ibmsurpkv9d11627332141/wish/408420817 Making Maps of Drive to School https://padlet.com/jeffcoearlylearning/ibmsurpkv9d11627332141/wish/408421430 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.]]> 2019-11-07 23:57:29 UTC https://padlet.com/jeffcoearlylearning/ibmsurpkv9d11627332141/wish/408421430 Planning for Dramatic Play Center Construction https://padlet.com/jeffcoearlylearning/ibmsurpkv9d11627332141/wish/408422044 Planning together for the construction of our Dramatic Play area. I will guide them to constructing a boat (Mayflower) and a Log Cabin. ]]> 2019-11-07 23:59:39 UTC https://padlet.com/jeffcoearlylearning/ibmsurpkv9d11627332141/wish/408422044 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. https://padlet.com/jeffcoearlylearning/ibmsurpkv9d11627332141/wish/409253399 2019-11-11 00:02:03 UTC https://padlet.com/jeffcoearlylearning/ibmsurpkv9d11627332141/wish/409253399 Sorting periods of time https://padlet.com/jeffcoearlylearning/ibmsurpkv9d11627332141/wish/411530240 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.

]]> 2019-11-14 22:15:16 UTC https://padlet.com/jeffcoearlylearning/ibmsurpkv9d11627332141/wish/411530240 Role Play https://padlet.com/jeffcoearlylearning/ibmsurpkv9d11627332141/wish/411530732 Read aloud book connected to center play....then act it out lifting up the roles of characters. Then scaffold during play to support roles.]]> 2019-11-14 22:16:44 UTC https://padlet.com/jeffcoearlylearning/ibmsurpkv9d11627332141/wish/411530732 For children who are interested, make yarn dolls to play with during Purposeful Play. soryshch https://padlet.com/jeffcoearlylearning/ibmsurpkv9d11627332141/wish/411530832 2019-11-14 22:17:02 UTC https://padlet.com/jeffcoearlylearning/ibmsurpkv9d11627332141/wish/411530832 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. https://padlet.com/jeffcoearlylearning/ibmsurpkv9d11627332141/wish/411532277 2019-11-14 22:21:11 UTC https://padlet.com/jeffcoearlylearning/ibmsurpkv9d11627332141/wish/411532277 Acting out our roles https://padlet.com/jeffcoearlylearning/ibmsurpkv9d11627332141/wish/411532494 Read aloud book connected to center play....then act it out lifting up the roles of characters. Then scaffold during play to support roles.]]> 2019-11-14 22:21:45 UTC https://padlet.com/jeffcoearlylearning/ibmsurpkv9d11627332141/wish/411532494 Weaving https://padlet.com/jeffcoearlylearning/ibmsurpkv9d11627332141/wish/411532707 Introducing weaving with loom, yarn, and ribbons. Connect to center play. Transfer this learning to weaving place mats for Thanksgiving feast.]]> 2019-11-14 22:22:23 UTC https://padlet.com/jeffcoearlylearning/ibmsurpkv9d11627332141/wish/411532707 Time Machine/Portal https://padlet.com/jeffcoearlylearning/ibmsurpkv9d11627332141/wish/423524722 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.]]> 2019-12-12 20:12:39 UTC https://padlet.com/jeffcoearlylearning/ibmsurpkv9d11627332141/wish/423524722 Suggested Text List for Preschool Inquiry Studies cmoats https://padlet.com/jeffcoearlylearning/ibmsurpkv9d11627332141/wish/483253995 Please add to this list as you find amazing texts that align to the inquiry study!]]> 2020-03-30 21:51:28 UTC https://padlet.com/jeffcoearlylearning/ibmsurpkv9d11627332141/wish/483253995 Long Ago and Now jeffcoearlylearning https://padlet.com/jeffcoearlylearning/ibmsurpkv9d11627332141/wish/891151799 Little Fox Animated Stories for Kids]]> 2020-11-04 18:09:24 UTC https://padlet.com/jeffcoearlylearning/ibmsurpkv9d11627332141/wish/891151799 Picturing the Past jeffcoearlylearning https://padlet.com/jeffcoearlylearning/ibmsurpkv9d11627332141/wish/891298431 From PBS LearningMedia]]> 2020-11-04 18:40:20 UTC https://padlet.com/jeffcoearlylearning/ibmsurpkv9d11627332141/wish/891298431