Planning A Week
Planning A Week
Planning A Week
Children’s Interests, “Big Ideas”: This study was developed based on three students (Amy, Daniel and James) talking about getting a
new family car
Circle/Group Time music and Book Area titles of books, other items Writing/Drawing Center materials,
movement – songs & activities, books • Pictures of different wheeled vehicles special items
and stories, props both current and historic • Photos/pictures of wheeled
• Songs: Wheels on the bus, • Nonfiction books required – see automobiles to draw
Down by the station with actions parental involvement • Cards with words and pictures of
• Felt board activity – how to • Fiction books: Two focus books - ‘Sheep wheeled automobiles
make a car story (made up by in a Jeep’ by Nancy Shaw, “Don’t Let the • Create how to fix your car book
teachers) Pigeon Drive the Bus! By Mo Williams with different pictures to stick in.
• What part of the car is this?
Game (cards with pictures and
words of different car parts)