Peek At Our Week November 18 - November 22, 2019
Religion: Thanksgiving (part 1) - The children will express an understanding that everything we have is a gift from God the Father. The children will say "thank you" for gifts and services and express thanks to God.
Seeds: God cares for all his children. The children will appreciate God's gifts from the earth and will appreciate God's care for his people as he created all the gifts from the Earth. The children will recognize the beauty and growth of God's creation.
Language/Literacy: Unit 3 - Week 1 - All Around Our Community - What is in our community? Concept words: hospital, house, library, post office, park, and street. Amazing words: bridge, entrance, traffic, fountain, statue, and gift. Break it with onsets and rime, letter naming, delete syllables, and take away word parts, recognizing authors and illustrators. The children will answer questions about a book and respond appropriately. Relate your experiences to books. Identify common features in a community.
Math: Using location words to find things in our classroom. Giving and following directions. Take away from 5 using models and word problems.
Science: "Dancing Corn" Experiment. The children will investigate different types of corn and learn how corn grows. One of the foods served at the first Thanksgiving was corn. The Pilgrims and Native Americans (Wampanoags) celebrated with their autumn harvest including corn. The children will predict if they can make corn kernals in a jar dance.
Afternoon Enrichment:
Monday: "Our World and Beyond" - We will "travel" to the state of Hawaii. Hawaii is made up of 8 major islands. The largest volcano on earth is in Hawaii. Hawaii is known for growing pineapples and coffee. The official dance is the Hula Dance.
Tuesday: We will explore number 10. The boys and girls will learn to form the number correctly, identify 10 and one to one counting to 10.
Wednesday: We will have a letter review day. The boys and girls will play Bingo for letter recognition, match upper and lowercase letters to objects, and work on letter sounds and beginning sight words.
Thursday: "Bushel of Books" - we will read "I Know An Old Lady Who Swallowed a Pie" by Alison Jackson. The children will work on retelling the story and sequencing the events, and tracking print while reading.
Science: We will read "How to Catch a Turkey" by Adam Wallace and Andy Elkerton. The children will use things we have in the room to work in teams to make and design their own turkey traps.
