Costello Building Blocks- Weekly Happenings: March 16-20, 2015

Description
Plan-DoReview

Small
Group
Activities

PLANNING Time, WORK Time, RECALL Time

This three-part sequence is unique to the HighScope Curriculum.
Occurring daily, it includes a 10- to 15-minute period during which
children plan what they want to do during work time (the area to visit,
materials to use, and friends to play with); a -minute work time for
children to carry out their plans (or shift to new activities that interest
them); and another 10- to 15-minute period for reviewing and
recalling with an adult and other children what they've done and
learned.
1.

If You Take a T-Rex To School Class Book {Literacy}-

We read the book If You take a Mouse to School and then created
our own version, If You Take a T-Rex to School. Children illustrated
their own page of the book and added their dictation (with the
teachers help). We then laminated our book, bound it together with
rings and added it to our book area.
2.

Volcano {Science}-

First we created a volcano using a 20 oz plastic bottle and play doh.

Then we place toy dinosaurs around the base of the volcano. Using a
funnel, we added baking soda and red food coloring to the bottle.
Lastly, we poured vinegar into our volcano bottle and watched as it
erupted!
3.

Dino Foot Measuring {Math}

A T-Rexs foot was 3 Feet Long! We made a life sized t-rex foot out
of paper and then put our shoes inside to see how many of our shoes
it would take to make one t-rex foot.

KDIs

Approaches to Learning: initiative, planning, engagement, problem solving, use of

resources, reflection

Social/Emotional: self-identity, sense of competence, emotions, empaty,

community, building relationships, cooperative play, moral development, conflict
resolution

Physical: fine motor

Language: comprehension, speaking, vocabulary, concepts about print,
alphabetical knowledge, writing, reading
Math: spatial awareness
Creative: Art
Science: communicating ideas, natural and physical world
Social Studies: diversity, decision making

4.

Dino Tracks {Art}-

Using toy dinosaurs and paint, the children take the dinosaurs for a
romp through the paint and onto their papers to create dinosaur
tracks.

Physical: fine motor

Language: comprehension, speaking, vocabulary, book knowledge
Math: number words, measuring, data analysis
Science: observing, classifying, experimenting, predicting, drawing conclusions,
communicating ideas, natural and physical world
Social Studies: diversity
Physical: fine motor skills
Language/Literacy: comprehension, speaking, vocabulary, concepts about print
Math: number words and symbols, counting, measuring, part-whole relationships,
data analysis
Science: observing, classifying, experimenting, predicting, drawing conclusions,
communicating ideas, natural and physical world
Social Studies: decision making
Physical: fine motor skills
Language: comprehension, speaking, vocabulary, book knowledge, concepts
about print
Math: spatial awareness, patterns, data analysis
Creative: art
Science: communicating ideas, classifying
Social Studies: decision making, diversity

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5. Dinosaur Grid Game{math: one to one correspondence, counting, numeral identification}
Children roll a game dice, identify the amount of dice on the die and
count out that amount of dinosaur manipulatives. Each manipulative
is placed over one picture on the grid. Children play until their grid is
covered.
Large
Group

Book Title
Stomp, Dinosaur Stomp
Dinosaur Pet
Dinosaurs
How Do Dinosaurs Get Well
Soon?
Dinosaur Train
How Do Dinosaurs Say Good
Night?
The Dinosaur

Sensory
Table

Physical: fine motor skills

Language/Literacy: comprehension, speaking, vocabulary, concepts about print
Math: number words and symbols, counting, measuring, part-whole relationships,
data analysis
Science: observing, classifying, drawing conclusions, communicating ideas, natural
and physical world
Social Studies: decision making

Songs, Fingerplays & Activities:

Song
Dinosaur Stomp
5 Hungry Dinosaurs
Dinosaur Egg
If Youre a Tyrannosaurus
Birthdays
Once There Was a Dinosaur
Long, Long Ago
Listen and Move
Put Your Finger On
Your Face

Literature:

Approaches to Learning: engagement

Social/Emotional: sense of competence, community
Creative Arts: music, movement, appreciating the arts
Physical: gross motor skills, fine motor skills, body awareness
Language/Literacy: comprehension, speaking, vocabulary, phonological
awareness
Math: number words and symbols, counting, part-whole relationships
Social Studies: diversity

Author
Margaret Mayo
Marc Sedaka
DKs First Facts
Jane Yolen
John Steven Gurney
Jane Yolen
Anna Milbourne

Dino Dig
Sand, dinosaur bones, shovels and sifters

Language & Literacy: comprehension, speaking, vocabulary, phonological

awareness, alphabetic knowledge, concepts about print, book knowledge

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Play Doh
Table

Fossils
Playdoh and toy dinosaurs
Children can choose to use this area during their work time for
exploration

Activity
Table

Dinosaur Pattering & Sorting

Children identify the pattern and then continue it with the

dinosaur counters

Children identify the color of the dinosaur counters and then

sort them accordingly