Our Neighborhood
Domains
Physical
-Gross Motor:
- Students will walk 4 blocks to the post office, fire house, and library
- Students will move like different means of transportation, and at different tempos
- Students will participate in yoga
-Fine Motor:
- Students will use small model buildings to recreate the neighborhood
- Students will use crayons, pencils, and paper to create art projects and do rubbings on trees markers
- Students will use to write on the smartboard
- Students will be introduced to eating with different utensils, such as chopsticks
Self Help/Adaptive
-Students will wash hands independently
-Students will gather art supplies and put them away in the appropriate spot
-Students will eat independently
-Students will pack up and dress independently or with little teacher assistance
-Students will serve the other students at snack time
-Students will help to set up the room for the party
-Students will take caregivers around the room
Cognitive
-With practice, students will place their own house in the correct place on the neighborhood floor model
-Students will identify at least one helper job at the school
-Students will identify which buildings are taller or shorter
-Students will participate in counting, one to one correspondence, and parts of a whole activities
-Students will identify the different trees and animals in the neighborhood
Language
-Key vocabulary: neighborhood, helpers, apartment, sidewalk, buildings, most, least, droop, quiver, straight, names of trees
-Sing “Who are the People in your Neighborhood?” while learning the sign for neighborhood and other signs
-Students will be exposed to other languages
-Students will have many opportunities to ask and answer questions
Social Emotional
-Students will have opportunities to present to the class
-Students will share different materials in child directed centers
-Students will learn about the other students
-Students will learning about being part of a community
-Students will work collectively and cooperatively in small and large groups
-Students will learn the concept of being part of a greater whole
-Students will help classmates throughout day
Preparation and Materials
Cultural
-Vocabulary words to be taught and listed in different languages
-Foods from different countries represented in Jackson Heights
-Different styles of dress and costumes (in dramatic play dress up)
Technology
-Photographs will be taken during the project process and field trips and displayed around the room and outside the class (with appropriate labels)
-View video of “Who are the People in your Neighborhood?”
-Computer games that focus on the topic of taller and shorter
Books
-Bear About Town, Stella Blackstone
-Say Hello!, Rachel Isadora
-Only One Neighborhood, Marc Harshman
-The People in your Neighborhood (Sesame Street)
-Trees (poem) Sarah Coleridge
-City Green, DyAnne DiSalvo-Ryan
Field Trips
-Post Office
-Fire House
-Library
-Walks Outside in the Neighborhood
Class Projects
-The class will create a small scale model of the neighborhood using toy buildings placed in the appropriate place on a large drawing of the neighborhood, with streets and avenues well marked
-Parents will be invited into the classroom to share a cultural dish with the class