Pre-K+3+Project+Approach

What do you see in your house? What are houses made of? (inside and out) What do you wonder about houses? || Content/ Skills || What do you do in your house? (mitzvot) Do you invite guests into your house? Read "The House that Hillel Built" ||  || Making web Take-home Survey Make observational drawing of their own house and of materials the school is made from Our Book of Houses with pictures of their houses including address Listen to the story of the 3 Little Pigs (use puppets) Make venn diagram comparing house and school Dictate words about what we liked about trip to Home Depot Make individual book about Home Depot Trip Checklist of things we saw at Home Depot Ask children "How do you get to your house?" and write their words Put furniture and achitectural magazines in housekeeping ||  || Focus on number address Voting on paint colors, etc. Exchanging money in our classroom Home Depot store Matching different sized nuts and bolts Use tape measures to measure houses Match different shaped houses to patterns Use different shapes blocks to build houses (big blocks, wood blocks, Lincoln logs, brick blocks) ||  || Look at pictures of houses around the world Invite visitors (builder, interior designer, etc) Visit Home Depot Set up a classroom Home Depot Store Build houses from different materials, wearing construction hats, use tools Decorate house with wallpaper, wood, tile, carpet, linoleum Look at Real floor plans Make a neighborhood map of each child's house ||  || Collage paint swatches Designing our own house project with magazine pictures and shapes Draw the people that live in our house Made a class web about what we learned about houses Paint by banging hammers Easel starter using window (create house around it by painting) ||  || Make tool cookies Talked with interior designer about monochramatic and complimentary colors Painted bricks outside using water and real brushes and rollers Make comparisons about what different houses are made of (brick, wood, etc.) Sensory Activities-rocks, wood, carpet samples, tile, sand paper, bricks Hammer pegs into styrofoam Mixing paint colors ||  || Ask Home Depot workers questions on our field trip Play House (doll house, castle, housekeeping) Collaborate to build houses with Lego Work together to color on cardboard house ||  || Parent visitors Home Depot "The House that Jack Built" "A House is a House for Me" "There's No Place Like Home" song "Johnny Works with One Hammer" "The Napping House" House Beautiful magazines Architectural magazines Furniture catalogs ||  || Pictures Project Approach Assessment sheet filled in with skills met ||  ||
 * Essential Questions || What do you know about houses?
 * Judaic Studies || How many mezuzahs are in your house?
 * Language Arts || Meeting Times to discuss essential questions
 * Math || Graphing Surveys (pie chart and bar graph)
 * Social Studies || Looking at different types of houses (cabins, cottages, brick, White House, etc.)
 * Creativity/ Critical Thinking || Use paint swatches to order colors from light to dark
 * Science || Manipulate small pieces (nuts and bolts, plumbing parts)
 * Social Skills || Working together to make house display and real cardboard house
 * Resources || YouTube video of 3 Little Pigs Puppet show
 * Assessment || Observation