Peek At Our Week October 20 - October 24, 2025

Religion:  Pflaum Gospel Weeklies:  Seeds. Lesson theme:  Jesus wants us to ask.Objectives:  The children will recognize that it is best to have an “I’ll try” attitude and be persistent.  The children will understand that God loves them and will answer their prayers.  The children will learn a five finger poem.  **We will be attending Mass with our 4th grade Prayer Buddies Tuesday October 21st**

Language/Literacy:  Heggerty Phonics Awareness Week 8:  Heggerty Phonics Awareness:Lesson Overview:  weeks 7-12:  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. Use language in a discussion.  Answer questions and respond appropriately.  Answer questions about a story.  Retell a story.  Understand the meaning of words.  Concept of print will be reviewed:  front of book, back of the book, title location, author, and illustrator, where to start reading and where to stop.  Make it:  onset and rime.  Name our alphabet letters.  Build a word.   Letter focus of the week Gg.  Home/School connection:  

Math: Numbers and Operations:  use a model for subtracting 1-5/ adding up to 5 items, know objects can be counted, count with one count per item, demonstrate that last count is how many, sequencing numbers 1-10.  Writing 1-5.  Data analysis:  sort objects and describe similarities and differences between groups.

Science:  Bat Science:  The children will participate in a hands-on activity to illustrate how bats use echolocation sounds to find their prey. The bats emit high pitched sounds that bounce back and give them information of the insects they are wanting to catch. **We will read the Book Pumpkin Jack  and see if we can make our own!  Once we have carved our little pumpkin, we will put it in a container with dirt and close it up tightly.  The boys and girls will observe the pumpkin to see what changes occur over the  course of the school year.

Afternoon Enrichment:

Monday:  “Our World and Beyond”:  The children will review all the states we have “visited”.  We will then travel further south to the state of Florida home of DisneyWorld!  We will discuss how the temperature is warmer in Florida than it is in Illinois.  The children will also learn about an animal found in Florida...Alligators.

Tuesday:  We will continue our study of the letter Gg.  How many words can we think of that begin with the letterG?  The children will search the room for an item that begins with the letter G.  

Wednesday:  Our number exploration continues with 7.  The children will identify the number with tally marks, the symbol and the written word.  The children will sort objects into groups of 7  and practice adding and subtracting from their sets.

Thursday:  “Bushel of Books”:  We will read Sixteen Runaway Pumpkins.  The children will predict the sequence of events as we read the book.  We will discuss cause and effect.  The children will retell the story and make their own wagon of pumpkins.

Friday:  STEM:  We will read Walter’s Wonderful Web By:  Tim Hopgood.  We will learn how a spider makes a web.  The children will make their own shape webs.  Using unifix cubes, the children will build a house for their “ghost”.