Peek At Our Week September 23 - 27, 2019
Religion: Unit 2 - God Made Holy Things - God Made Churches. The children will identify the church building as God's House. The children will learn to be quiet in the presence of God and become familiar with some characteristics of the church. The children will learn to pray quietly in their hearts.
Seeds: We follow Jesus. We begin our special and wonderful Sunday Gospel wrap around lesson this week with Seeds. The children will recognize that they have a Church Family. They will also understand that Jesus asks them to love and be faithful to God. The children will pray the Sign of the Cross and develop an understanding of what it means.
Language/Literacy: Unit 1 - Week 4 - "Friends Working and Playing Together - How do friends get along together?" Concept words: afraid, happy, mad, mean, nice and sad. Amazing words: business, brave, rescue, accident, apologize, and argue. The children will break words with syllable segmentation as well as blending of syllables. Use language in a discussion. Follow classroom rules and routines. Understand the meaning of words, retell a story, and answer questions about a book. Identifying upper and lower case letters and differentiate between beg and little letters. Letter of the week: Dd. Home/School: Bring a D item from home.
Social Studies: We will learn about Johnny Appleseed. We will learn how he helped make the World a better place by teaching people to: use what they have, share what you have, and to respect nature.
Science: We will use our scientific tools: goggles, magnifying glasses, hammers and tweezers to explore some dinosaur eggs. The children will each break open their own dinosaur egg.
Math: Number and Operations: Use verbal ordinal terms . Use words to rote count from 1 to 30. We will sort objects and into different groups. We will discuss how they can be sorted by color, shape, or type.
Afternoon Enrichment:
Monday: "Our World and Beyond": We will continue to learn about some of the states in our country. We will head north to our neighbor Wisconsin. We will learn that Wisconsin is called the Dairy State. We will lean how to milk a cow and how cheese is made.
Tuesday: Music with Mr. Showstead. Exploring number 4. We will practice writing it in words, tally marks and the symbol. The children will go on a hunt around the room to find 4 of the same objects.
Wednesday: Gym with Mrs. Beyer's Class. We will continue our study of Letter D. We will work on our Letter Book. We will go on a letter hunt around the room and see what we can find that begins with the letter D. The children will make a D craft.
Thursday: Today is Johnny Appleseed Day! We will make applesauce in a slow cooker today. The children will help prepare everything to put into the cooker. Tomorrow we will have a tasty apple treat.
Friday: "Bushel of Books": We will read: Little Blue and Little Yellow by: Leo Lionni. We will play some color games and see if we can identify colors by their color words. The children will then mix colors. Beginning with yellow, red and blue we will see how many colors we can make!
