Religion:  Special Lesson:  Mother’s Day:  The children will express an understanding that God the Father gave them mothers.  The children will show gratitude for their mothers.  The children will show love for their mothers.

Literacy:  Heggerty Lesson Overview Weeks 28-35 :  Week 32.  Students will produce words that rhyme.  Students will isolate the initial sound in spoken words.  Students will learn to blend three phonemes into a spoken word.  Students will continue to practice phoneme isolation with final and medial(vowel) phonemes in spoken words.  Students will learn to segment a spoken word into three phonemes.  Students will manipulate the initial phoneme in a spoken work with adding, deleting, and substituting.  Understand the meaning of words.  Compare and contrast.  Answer questions about a book.  Retell a story.  Use new speaking vocabulary in retelling.  Identify appropriate writing conventions.  Letter of the week Xx.  Bring an Xx item from home.

Math:  Counting 8 and 9 in any order. Making sets of 8 and 9.  Making smaller sets for 8 and 9.  Making and breaking 8 and 9.  Recognizing shapes.  Order. Patterning. Representing numbers 0-5 on ten frames. Focus Color:  Pink.

Science:  We will also take a walk outside and look for signs of Spring.  The children will use their senses to explore the world around them as Spring begins.

Social Studies:  Scholastic:  My BIG World: CLifford:  “Spring Brings Babies”:  Science focus:  baby animals. Theme Vocabulary:  balance, bounce, bathe, buck, bark.  Skills We’re Practicing:  group discussion, critical thinking, vocabulary, phonological awareness.counting, handwriting.

Afternoon Enrichment:

Monday:  Our World and Beyond:  We will begin our exploration of the ocean.  We will learn about the variety of fish and other creatures that live in the ocean.  

Tuesday:  We will continue to learn about letter Xx.How many words can we think of that have the letter X in them.  The sound the letter X makes.  Review all letters and letter sounds.

Wednesday:  We will continue to review 1-20.  We will count forwards and backwards.  The children will identify number before and after a given numbers.  1:1 correspondence counting.   Patterning AB, AAB ABC

Thursday:  Bushel of Books:  We will read The Grouchy Ladybug By:  Eric Carle.  The children will describe what makes them grouchy.  If we are grouchy how does that make other people feel?Concepts of Print, Sequencing, retelling of a story.

Friday:  STEAM;  weather permitting we will go outside on a nature scavenger hunt.  The children will collect various items and we will use these to make nature artwork.