This document outlines the weekly schedule and activities for a preschool class focusing on a spring investigation into who visits a pond, including daily questions, leaders for morning and afternoon meetings, small group activities in different interest areas related to pond life, and notes on intergenerational programs, field trips, and classroom rules and routines for the week.

1. Teachers: Mary, Valerie, Karen, Emily, Lynea Date: May 20-24, 2019
Study: Spring Investigation: Who visits a pond?
Commitment: I commit to use my outside body outside and my inside body inside.
Monday 20 Tuesday 21 Wednesday 22 Thursday 23 Friday 24
Question of the
Day:
Have you ever been to the
children museum?
What was your favorite part of
yesterday?
What is a mammal? Why would a racoon come
to a pond?
What are the steps to
wash your hands?
AM/PM meeting
Leader:
AM Val
PM Emily
AM Val
PM Mary
AM Val
PM Mary
AM Emily
PM Emily
AM Mary
PM Karen
AM focus group:
Person, Book,
Activity
Field trip to the Children’s
Musuem
Val
Journals
Talk about our field trip
Karen
The Butternut Hollow
Pond
Practice graduation
Emily
Racoons
Practice graduation
Mary
Handwashing with Kathy
PM focus group: Emily
Journals
Talk about our field trip
Mary
Ladders Animal Homes
Practice graduation
Lynea
Over in the meadow
Practice graduation
Lynea
Bear Wants More
Practice graduation
Karen
Would You Rather Be a
Pollywog?
Practice graduation
Intergen/Other: Cooking club (Mary) 3pm:
Julian, Vayda, Aeva,
Nathan, Jaxon
Art with Amanda 9:30-
10:00am, Donna reads
10:30am & 1-on-1s with
Amanda 3-4pm
Val- Intergen 10-11am*
NO SWIMMING
Grandfriends (Mary) 3pm:
Ellen, Xenieya, Nikola,
Rose, Zariya
1 on 1 visits with Emily
at 10am
*Children are asked who would like to participate weekly and are not assigned certain weeks to participate.
Small groups are done during Free Play in the Interest areas. These are the Changes to Interest area Based on Children’s Interests/Study:
Dramatic Play (V): Pond life – What it
would be like to live in a pond.
Discovery (M): look at our tadpole and
caterpillars with magnifying glasses.
Library (K): Books about spring and
ponds have been added. Spring felt
board.
Sensory table (E): add different sized
lily pads
Art (E): Egg carton and painting to
make flowers and insects
Cooking/Table Toys (K): Nest & eggs
tweezer game. Bugs building toys, PEC
pictures, jumping frogs, numbered lily
pads.
Technology (M): watch the live action
story telling of the very hungry
caterpillar
Music (R/L): 5 green and speckled
frogs on CD to reenact and move to.
Large motor (M/V): Search Kendal’s
ponds and document what we see that
lives in them.
Blocks (R/L): Fake “ponds” (blue
papers) to build around or with.
Writing (V): Flower matching Letters
game and add pond words. (Lynea will
ask children during the week.)
Classroom rules / routines (V/M): I
commit to use my outside body
outside and my inside body inside.
What needs extra attention/ schedule changes this week: Field Trip Monday
Parent Involvement/needs (V/M): Graduate’s need to pick up their gowns from Val
What worked best this week: _________________________________________________________________________________________
What didn’t work so well this week: ____________________________________________________________________________________
Ideas for the future: ________________________________________________________________________________________________