Peek At Our Week April 8 – 12, 2019

Religion Objectives: 

Seeds – Jesus teaches us to forgive. The children recognize helpful ways to handle conflict.  The children will recognize.

God Made Surprises: God Made Big Things - The children will be impressed with some big things made by God.  The children will realize that God is great and powerful. The children will praise and thank God.

Literacy Objectives: 

OWL - Unit 5 – Week 3 - What is a desert? Concept words cactus, desert, dry, rock, sand and sun. Amazing words coyote, invite, quick, howl, tumble and mountain.  Sequencing movements to perform task. Participate in a discussion and recognize conversational rules. Respond appropriately. Demonstrate understanding of the meaning of words. Break it: onset and rime, letter sounds, rhyming words, concepts of print and what’s my word? Engage in pre-reading and reading related activities. Discuss emotions of the characters. Ask and answer questions about the book. Letter of the Week: Uu.

Math Objectives: 

Create, extend and recognize patterns (AB, AA/BB, ABC) using colors. One more, one less. Ten frames. Matching shapes.  Color by number of sides.  Counting and graphing shapes.

Science Objectives:

Peep science – exploring Peeps with our five senses.

My Big World with Clifford: Hop! Hop! Hooray!  Science Focus: characteristics of animals.  Vocabulary: explore new words through visuals. Vocabulary Theme Words: flop, nibble, snuggle, wiggle and warren.  Math: measurement.

Social Studies: 

Use and respond to words indicating direction. Use language to identify and compare feelings. 

Afternoon Enrichment: 

Monday: Bonjour! The children will continue their study of France.  We will learn to count to 10 in French as well as the names of some colors.

Tuesday: IXL Math and letter apps.

Wednesday: Afternoon Gym with Mrs. Beyer’s class.  Write the Room Spring Time addition.

Thursday: The children will continue their author study with Jan Thomas.  We will read Can You Make a Scary Face?  We will also make ourselves into scary lady bugs.

Friday:  STEAM – We will explore the fun science concept of chromatography.  Chromatography is the separation of a mixture by passing a solution through a medium.

Music class with Mr. Showstead.