Unit 2, Our Environment 24-25

OCToBER 28 - DECEMBER 20Unit 2: OUR ENVIRONMENT

Unit Overview

Unit 2 begins with students focusing on their school, home, and familiar outdoor areas. Then the focus shifts to a more exotic environment of choice. Students will collect recyclable materials to create artwork. Students will learn how animals, plants, and earth features are connected while building an environment project.

Key Concepts

  • Recycling
  • Identify problems and the Solution Suitcase
  • Numerals
  • Verbal Counting
  • 2-D and 3-D Shapes

CULMINATING PROJECT

As children learn about the coral reef, they will work toward the creation of a class mural or other coral-reef display. The class coral-reef display should include information, items, and representations of their understandings in all learning domains. The unit’s study culminates in a scavenger hunt of features in the display. Please see page 4 of the unit guide for more information.

 

C4L Processes

C4L develops ten cognitive processes that are both domain specific and applicable across all four domains. The C4L curriculum incorporates all processes within each unit, but some units place a stronger emphasis on a particular process goal. The following C4L learning processes are addressed within Unit 2.

1. Communicating and Representing

2. Cooperating

3. Comparing and Classifying

4. Creating, Imagining, and Innovating

5. Curiosity - Asking Questions and Seeking New Information

6. Persisting, Attending, and Self-Regulation

7. Reasoning and Problem Solving

8. Seeking to Make Sense

 

Scope and Sequence

  • October 21 - November 1 • Unit 2: Our Environment • Week 1
  • November 4 -8 • Unit 2: Our Environment • Week 2
  • November 11 - 15 • Unit 2: Our Environment • Week 3
  • November 28 - 22 • Unit 2: Our Environment • Week 4 
  • November 25 - 26 • Parent-Teacher Conferences
  • December 2 - 6 • Unit 2: Our Environment • Week 5
  • December 9 - 13 • Unit 2: Our Environment • Week 6
  • December 16 - 20 • Review

FAMILY CONNECTION

Family Connection is offered to each family once a month, individually or in the small group setting so families can build a support network and discuss shared concerns and solutions with each other (e.g., families with similar needs such as interpreters, instructional supports, etc.). For more information about Family Connection, please visit the Family Connection page.

School Readiness Resources for FamiliesLinks to an external site.Links to an external site.

 

Learning Centers

The learning center suggestions provided for Unit 2 connect directly to the learning objectives for each C4L domain and allow children to deepen their understanding of target concepts and to practice target skills. The following activities are suggested for Unit 2 Learning Centers.

  • Art Center: Environment Rubbings; Animal Masks; Water Painting; Draw Your Favorite Environment; Playing In Our Environment
  • Book Nook: Felt Board and Stories; Campfire Stories; Book Scavenger Hunt; Read to a Toy Animal; Under the Sea
  • Computer Center: practice log-ins; games
  • Construction Zone: Build a Pond Environment; Build a "Trashy Town" Environment; Build A Home; Paper Decorations
  • Dramatic Play: "Big Trees"; Recycling Center; Trashy Town!; Underwater Adventure
  • Exploration Center: Recycle and Reuse; Recycled Instruments; Making Paper; Water-Table Wave Pool; Squirrels; Soil Exploration; Nature Investigations; Animal Prints; Sand Table; Water-Table Aquatic Environment
  • Games and Puzzles: Circles and Cylinders; Shape Collection; Shape Hunt; Magnetic Maze; High-Low Card Game; Super Solver Game; Matching Numbers,  Math Group GamesLinks to an external site.*NEW 2023*
  • Listening Center: Music; Environment Sounds
  • Show What You Know Center: Scavenger Hunt; Rhyming Book; Don't Throw It Away!; Problem-Solving Puppets; Don't Waste that Water!; Creating a Coral-Reef Environment
  • Writing Center: Science-Journal Writing; Invitations; Invitations to the Coral-Reef Environment; Welcome to the Coral Reef; Writing in Sand

A full description of the suggested Learning Center activities and materials can be found in each unit guide. 

 

Grading Tools

Unit 2 Formative Assessment Recording Sheets Links to an external site.

PK4 Quarterly Grading Spreadsheets Links to an external site. *NEW 2024*

 HCPSS Rubrics for Grade Books and Report Cards Links to an external site.

Grading Tools Folder Links to an external site.

 C4L Unit 2 Assignments for Canvas Grade Book

  • Search "C4L Unit 2 Formative Assessments" in Canvas Commons
  • Two versions - Prekindergarten and Preschool
  • Four domains - Language & Literacy, Mathematics, Science, Social Emotional

 

Resources

Connect4Learning Long Range Plans for 4-Year-Olds Links to an external site.

 Unit 2 Teacher Share Folder Links to an external site.

  • Note: read alouds are for instructional use only. Scanned copies may not be linked in teacher's Canvas pages.

Alphabet Cards Links to an external site.

 Alphabet Chart Links to an external site.

Lee and Low Optional Lesson Plans/Classroom Connections Links to an external site.

Numeral and Dot Cards Links to an external site.

 Science Journal CoversLinks to an external site.

SEFEL Emotion Cards Links to an external site.

SEFEL Emotion Resources - English and Spanish Links to an external site.

 Heggerty Family Newsletters Links to an external site.