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Peek at Our Week April 1 – April 5, 2019

Religion Objectives: 

God is a forgiving Father - The children recognize times when a children needs to be forgiven and God is our loving Father.  The children will recognize loving actions are right and unloving actions are wrong. The children will be reminded of Jesus’ forgiveness and identify ways they share with others.

Special Seasons and Days: Easter - The children will identify Eater as a feast of life.  The children will know that Jesus gives us new life and thank God for life.

We will go to mass with our Prayer Buddies on Tuesday.

Science Objectives:

Experiment with different liquids and their effect on gummy bears at our Teddy Bear Tea.

Social Studies: 

We will identify roles in our community.  We will use language to identify and compare feelings.

Literacy Objectives: 

OWL: Unit 5 – Week 2 – What are jungle animals like? Concept words elephant, frog, lion, monkey, parrot and zebra. Amazing words chase, collect, complain, mistake, pattern and splash.  Use language in a discussion with complete sentences. Respond appropriately. Name it/Say it with alphabet. Identify beginning letter sounds. Differentiate between upper and lower case letters. Make it/break it onset and rime. Create words by adding beginning sounds to rimes. Count words in sentences. What’s my word? Understand the meaning of words.  Engage in pre-reading and reading activities with concepts of print and tracking. Answer questions about a book.  Retell a story. Compare and contrast animals.  Letter of the Week Tt.

Math Objectives: 

Create, extend and recognize patterns using sounds, colors, and people.  Teddy Bear patterning. Teddy Bear puzzle making.

Teddy Bear Tea: 

We will journal about our special friend that we brought to school.  Measuring and comparing the sizes of bears and furry friends brought to the tea. Graphing and analyzing the data for the kinds of friends brought to the tea. Estimation using gummy bears. Recording descriptive information about our furry friends. Using language to describe our furry friends.  Making a Venn diagram of the information we learned about bears vs. our furry friends.

Afternoon Enrichment: 

Monday: Bonjour! April in Paris! We will be traveling to France during the month of April. This week we will learn about the flag and one of the most famous landmarks in the world, the Eiffel Tower.

Tuesday: IXL exploration and Bob Books app. 

Wednesday: Afternoon Gym with Mrs. Beyer’s class.  Math application activities.

Thursday: Author study with Jan Thomas beginning with the silly Rhyming Dust Bunnies. Identify, sorting and producing rhyme.

Friday:  STEAM challenge – Making houses for our Peeps! Music with Mr. Showstead.

We had a great time with centers today!  We had a smaller crew so it was fun to push all the tables together and do centers all in a group!  

For science today, we did an experiment that demonstrated how clouds produce rain.  It gave the children a hands-on visual.  First we estimated how many droplets of water would be needed to make our cloud produce rain.  Then the children counted how many actual drops it took. There was so much excitement as the children watched the blue colored water drop down through their clouds!

We loved learning about animals and their babies today with Scholastic My Big World with Clifford!
We illustrated pictures just like Mo Willem's artistry in the Knuffle Bunny books. The characters are cartoon illustrations on real photograph backgrounds.
We had Art In The Box today.  Our featured author and illustrator was Mo Willems.  We learned he was from Illinois too!  We enjoyed listening to the Knuffle Bunny stories.  
After having a snack picnic at the rug, we got to work with our math application stations. Today was our second round of these engaging stations that the children really enjoy!  There was Build A Shape, where the children identified, described shapes, created, and composed shapes, Make and Count had the children making patterns and Fill it up, an exercise that had the children count the numbers of objects in each shape and record the number counted.  
Lots of fun running around in gym class as well as creative play with the hula hoops - Choo! Choo!
At the green table, we worked on discerning the size of the shamrocks and sorting them into the correct column - largest to smallest.  At the red table, we discerned uppercase and lowercase letters by recording the correct case.