Peek At Our Week November 18 - November 22, 2024

Religion: Pflaum Gospel Weeklies.  Seeds.  Unit 2.  Theme lesson:  Jesus is always with us. Objectives:  the children will explore their feelings and understand that all feelings are acceptable and natural.  The children will appreciate that God loves us and is always with us and recognize that God calls us to be saints so we can be with him in heaven.  The children wil recognize that other children have feelings like theirs.

Language/Literacy: Heggerty Phonemic Awareness Week 12: Students will hear and repeat rhyming word pairs, and begin to recognize rhyming words and non rhyming words.  Students will isolate the initial sound in spoken words.  Students will earn to blend two syllables into a spoken word.  Students will learn to isolate the final phoneme in a spoken word.  Students will learn to segment a spoken word into two syllables.  Students are introduced to manipulating parts of a word when two new skills, Adding and Deleting syllables are introduced in week 7. The children will answer questions about a book and respond appropriately.  Relate your experiences to books.  Identify common features in a community. Focus letter of the week:Ii.  Home/School Connection:  Bring a Ii item from home.

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.

Science:  Acorns! The children will learn all about acorns and where they come from.  What is inside of an acorn.  The boys and girls will participate in a hands-on activity to examine the inside of an acorn.  Using magnifying glasses they will identity the seed from which the oak tree will grow.  Will acorns sink or float?? The boys and girls will predict  and observe what happens when acorns are placed in water.

Social Studies:  Scholastic:  My BIG World Clifford:  “I Can Help”:  Social Studies Focus:  Thanksgiving.  Social and LIfe Skills focus:  social awareness/relationship skills.  Theme Vocabulary  Thanksgiving, shopping, delicious, decorations.  Skills We’re Practicing:  group discussion, critical thinking, vocabulary, manners, visual discrimination.

Afternoon Enrichment:

Monday:  Our World and Beyond:  The children will travel far north to the state of Alaska.  The children will learn about this enormous state and the wonders that it has. We will watch a video about the Northern Lights and what causes them.

Tuesday:  We will continue exploration of the letter Kk.  We will practice making the letterK and go on a letter K hunt around the classroom.  The boys and girls will play an upper and lowercase letter matching game.

Wednesday: We will focus on the number 11.  How many different ways can we represent this number?  We will practice one to one correspondence counting forwards and backwards to 11.

Thursday: “Bushel of Books”:  The boys and girls will read The Little Red Hen. We will have a class discussion about the lessons in the story:  hard work pays off and if we all help each other, we would all be able to benefit more.  The children will sequence events in the story.

Friday:  We will read Turkey Trouble. This book is about a turkey who tries to disguise himself so he won’t end up as a Thanksgiving dinner.  After reading and discussing the book, the boys and girls will make their own turkeys using playdough and a variety of other art supplies.