Religion Objectives:  

God Made the Earth - God Made Light.  The children will be grateful to God for the gift of light and identify Jesus as light.  The children will know that Jesus had the power to heal. 

Seeds: Mary is blessed.  The children will respond to the happiness of Elizabeth as she greets Mary. The children will realize how Mary and Joseph prepared for Jesus and use ornaments to tell how everyone is ready for Jesus’ birth.         

Literacy Objectives: 

OWL – Unit 3 – Week 4 – What kinds of communities do people live in?  Learn new concept words: city, country, farm, neighbor, people and town.  Learn amazing words: bloom, garden, stem, breeze, sprinkle and vine.  Rhyming words, naming letters, identifying letter sounds (beginning and ending sounds), matching upper and lower case letters.  Segmenting onsets and rimes. Identify ending punctuation. Answer questions about a book. Retell a story. Letter of the Week: Mm. 

Math Objectives: 

Combining spheres and cones, combining rectangular prisms, solid shapes and creating new shapes with 3D shapes.  Pass it on! Game – describing our 3D shapes. 

Science Objectives:    

Melting race – we will experiment melting ice around our classroom and predict which place will melt the ice first and why.  We will read Sneezy the Snowman by Maureen Wright – what happens when a snowman melts and journal about it. 

Social Studies: 

Scholastic: My Big World with Clifford: Science Focus: water and ice. Movement: dancing, following directions. Vocabulary Theme Words: sliding, ice, frozen, slippery. Math: number recognition/number order. 

OWL: Protecting signs in our environment; how do these signs help us?  Wants vs. needs. 

Afternoon Enrichment:

Monday: The children will travel to England.

Tuesday: IXL Math and Bob Books app.

Wednesday: Afternoon Gym with Mrs. Beyer’s class. Number 14 exploration – forming the number correctly, the letters in its name, identifying the number 14 and counting to 14. 

Thursday: Jan Brett author study.  We will compare similarities and differences for The Mitten and The Hat using a Venn diagram.  Sequencing and story retelling.  How many preschoolers fit in a mitten? 

Friday:  STEAM – Making a clothes line to hold our mittens. Music class with Mr. Showstead.