The document outlines the weekly schedule and activities for a preschool classroom focused on reducing, reusing, and recycling, including discovery centers on items to take apart and building vehicles out of recyclables, field trips to the library and Cleveland History Center to learn about transportation and waste, and incorporating early learning standards around measurement, movement, print concepts, relationships, classification, and memory. Teachers will be Sara, Mary, Karen, Macie, and Jeni, and activities are aimed at developing skills in various academic and social-emotional domains.

1. Week of: January 16, 2017 Teacher: Sara, Mary, Karen, Macie, Jeni
Study: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle Investigation 2: Where does trash go? What do workers do there?
Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
Interest Areas Discovery: items
to take apart
Blocks: garbage truck,
recyclables
Table toys: build a
cars
Field trip Discovery: Library
Question of the
Day
Display screw
driver
Have you ever
used this before?
Do you have any
questions for our visitor
about transportation?
Display street sign.
Do you know what
this sign is?
Where do you think we
are going on our field
trip?
Display 2
containers, one w/
crushed cans and
one w/o
Which has more
cans?
Large Group Movement: the
kids go marching
in
MM70
Discussion and
Shared Writing:
Follow that trash
Song: I Love You Ritual
Discussion and Shared
Writing: how has
transportation changed?
Poem: Visitor
Discussion and Shared
Writing: Visitor
Poem: I Love You Ritual
Discussion and Shared
Writing: Field trip
Poem: ”Recycle
song”
MM71
Discussion and
Shared Writing:
Dump or Recycle?
Read-Aloud Book from ELI kit From the Model T to
Hyrid Cars
Signs in my
neighborhood
I Stink! The Adventures of
Gary & Harry
Small Group Morning:
How big around
Afternoon: which
container holds
more
Morning: Make vehicle
out of recyclables, birds
Afternoon: Make vehicle
out of recyclables, giraffes
Morning: book
making, about vehicle,
giraffes
Intergen, birds
Afternoon: Walk
Morning: Field trip
Afternoon:
Journals/Intergen
Morning: Library
Afternoon:
Memory Games
Ohio Early
Learning &
Development
Standards
CM: Measure length and
volume using non-
standard or standard tools
PWM: demonstrate
spatial awareness in p.a.
or movement
CSS: Demonstrate an
understanding of time in
the context of daily
experiences
LL: Demonstrate an
understanding that
print carries meaning
SE: recognize and
identify own emotions
and emotions of others
CS: describe, compare,
sort, classify, and order
AL: focus on activity w/
deliberate concentration
despite distraction
Gold Objectives,
Dimensions &
Indicators
Compares and measures
Moves purposefully from
place to place w/ control
Explores change related to
familiar people or places
Uses print concepts Establishes and sustains
positive relationships
Use classification skills
Remembers and connects
experiences
Outdoor Experiences: Walk
Family Partnerships: Family day Saturday- Cleveland History Center
Wow! Experiences: Field trip Thursday- Cleveland History Center