Peek At Our Week November 11 - November 15, 2019

Religion:   God Made The Earth - God Made Land:  The children will explain that God the Father made the earth and will describe and marvel at certain land features.  The children will express a desire to keep the earth beautiful.
Seeds:  God made all that is.  The children will distinguish between living and non living things.  The children will appreciate that God made everything and loves everything.
 
Language/Literacy:  OWL - Unit 1 and 2 Review - On Our Way to K! - "How can we be good friends?" "How are families the same and different?"  Concept and Amazing words review 1-48.  Segmenting  sentences, concepts of letters, letter naming, make it/break it with compound words, uppercase and lowercase letters, uppercase and lowercase letters in our names.  Concepts of print.
Focus letter of the week:Ii
 
Math:   Know objects can be counted, sort objects and describe similarities  and differences between groups, adding up to 5, subtracting 5 and counting with one-to-one correspondence.  Counting and tracing, identifying patterns.
Shape focus:  rectangle.
 
Science:  Owl Science.  The children will learn about owls.  Where they live, types of owls, and physical characteristics of owls.  The children will disect
synthetic owl pellet.  They will use their determine what is inside (an owl pellet is the mass of undigested parts that the owl regurgitates).  
 
Afternoon Enrichment:
 
Monday:  "Our World and Beyond" - Our travels will take us all the way north up to the state of Alaska.  The children will learn about the Northern Lights and what they are and what causes them.  We will also learn about some of the people who live in Alaska and how their culture differs from ours.
 
Tuesday: We will continue our number study with Number 9.  The children will explore all the ways we can represent the number 9.  
Music with Mr. Showstead.
 
Wednesday:  Gym with Mrs. Beyer's Class.  We will focus on letter I.  The children will review previous letters learned, make an I craft and work on their letter book.
 
Thursday:  "Bushel of Books" - Caps for Sale  By Esphyr Slobodkina.  The children will listen to the book, and then do a sequencing activity, followed by retelling  the story by acting it out in groups.
 
Friday:  STEAM - The children will listen to the story Turkey Trouble  by Lee Harper.  The children will then have to figure out how make a disguise for their own turkey using a variety of art supplies.