Peek At Our Week September 3 - September 7, 2018
Religion Objectives: “God Made My Friends”. The children will know what a friend is and be grateful for their friends. The children will consider Jesus a friend and try to be good friends to others.
OWL (Opening the World of Learning): Unit 1 “Welcome New Friends” – Week 1 – “What makes each of us special?” Completion of Unit 1 Week 1. We will meet Ollie, our Word Bird. Concept words boy, classroom, different, girl, grow, same. Amazing words favorite, frown, grin, confuse, exciting, nervous. We will focus on phonological awareness with letter and environmental sounds. We will learn what is a letter, the letters in our name and others names. We will explore the concept of alike versus different. Distinguish between letters and numbers. We will explore how many words we know that begin with our letter of the week sound. Segment sentences into words.
Math – Number and operations: counting to 1-10 items, using words to rote count 1-30, using verbal ordinal terms. Data analysis: sort objects and describe how groups are similar and different. Labeling and ordering numbers 1 to 5. Learning to write number 1.
Science – Apple Volcano science! We will experience our first chemistry lesson. The children will learn that chemistry is all about the way different materials are put together, and how they are made up including atoms and molecules. It’s also how these materials act under different conditions. We will witness a chemical reaction with a base of sodium bicarbonate and the acid of acetic acid. The fizzing reaction of carbonic acid forms breaking apart into water and carbon dioxide.
Sound walk in the neighborhood. We will explore our sense of sound in our environment.
Social Studies - Understanding similarities and respecting differences. The Legend of Johnny Appleseed.
Afternoon Enrichment:
Monday: No School.
Tuesday: IXL exploration and Paint Sparkle our classmate’s names.
Wednesday: Afternoon Gym. We will begin our number exploration with Our Big Number Book. This activity will help the children with countibg up to 10, counting down from 10 to 1, counting things, understanding and responding to spoken random numbers between 1 and 10, being able to say random numbers when shown the figure, recognizing and responding to numbers written out as words.Discussion of what we know and recognize 1 around us.
Thursday: We continue our journey through the United States. We will learn about the many famous monuments in the United States. Music CAPE with Mrs. Beyer’s class.
Friday: STEAM challenge –- Building Chicka Chicka Boom Boom alphabet trees. How many letters can it hold? The children will be challenged to use their problem-solving skills as they combine activities in science, technology, engineering, art, and math to build alphabet trees strong enough to hold many letters!
