Creative Practices
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Objective: Children will learn that constructing buildings take many workers and a lot of time.
Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | |
Large Group | Architects construct skyscrapers. | How can painters help construct a skyscraper? | What is the carpenters job when building a skyscrapers? | What is the plumbers job when building a skyscrapers? | Who are electricians? |
Story Time | In the City, by Santina Bruni. | Cross the Brigde, by Ryan Ann. | This is Out House, by Michale Rosen. | My City, by Rebecca Emberley | Around the World, by Margaret C. Hall |
Through out the week the children will build a model of a skyscraper. They will use cardboard.
Children will be divided on to three small groups.
Small Groups | 1. Paint the first floor. 2. Make windows and doors.3. Draw a picture of a skyscraper. | 2.Paint the second floor.3. Make windows.1.Draw a picture of a skyscraper. | 3. Paint the third floor.1.Make windows.2. Draw a picture of a skyscraper. | Have a discussion with the children on how we make a skyscraper. | Take the children for a walk in the neighborhood. Take a picture of the tallest building in that area. |
Art | Blocks | Dramatic Play | Discovery | Sand/Water | Other |
Add wooden sticks. | Children will build a skyscraper. | Add construction goggles. | Add a hard hat and a regular hat. Children will be able to identify the differences. | Make the Empire State Building. | Vocabulary: skyscraper, construction, hard hat, plumbers, carpenters, electricians. |