1) Children will engage in various creative activities related to telephones, including making collages, writing stories, dressing up and acting out scenes, and building miniature neighborhoods. 2) They will also participate in literacy and computer activities like reading books about telephones, searching online for images of phones, and practicing numbers. 3) Additionally, lessons will explore the historical and scientific aspects of telephones through social studies, science, and math activities focusing on Alexander Graham Bell, phone booths, cell service outages during storms, and hurricanes.

1. WRITING DRAMATIC PLAY
ART Take a favorite Dress up as their
Cut out character from the favorite character in
pictures and book and write a story the play (either from
make a about them in the our costumes or
collage of writing journals. For something they can
telephones/ ex. Write his or her bring from home) and
Ways people own story about the recite their line from
communicate spy. the book
BLOCK
BUILDING
Build their own
neighborhood or
MUSIC/MOVEMENT community,
There are many songs include telephone
children can sing booth and the
about the telephone, types of building
from a clean version the characters
of Lady Gaga’s would use.
“Telephone” to the
classics. COMPUTER CENTER/MATH
For movement, Children will go online and
children will pretend search for phone booths and
they are in the phone different types of telephones.
booth and go through For math, children will practice
the steps that are in the their numbers by learning their
book. home phones/ or their adult
phone numbers
SCIENCE
LITERACY In the story, cell
CENTER SOCIAL STUDIES phones lose
With a partner, The phone booth is located on service because
children will read 100th St. and West End Ave. of a storm.
different books The children will look on a Within the
related to NY map and locate their Weather Unit,
telephones. For ex. neighborhood, then write in the lesson will
Alexander Graham their journals about something talk about what
Bell by MacLeod special about their causes storms,
and Krystoforski. neighborhood. and because of
the recent
hurricane, what
causes
hurricanes and
their
experiences.