Peek At Our Week April 29 - May 3, 2024

Religion:  God  Made Surprises:  God Made Laughter:  The children will express an understanding that God wants them to be happy.  The children will show or state a desire to give joy to others.  The children will thank God for the gift of laughter.  **We will be attending Mass with our Prayer Buddies on Tuesday, April 30th**

Literacy:  Heggerty Lesson Overview Weeks 28-35 :  Week 31.  Students will produce words that rhyme.  Students will isolate the initial sound in spoken words.  Students will learn to blend three phonemes into a spoken word.  Students will continue to practice phoneme isolation with final and medial(vowel) phonemes in spoken words.  Students will learn to segment a spoken word into three phonemes.  Students will manipulate the initial phoneme in a spoken work with adding, deleting, and substituting. Pre-reading and reading activities with shared reading.  Answer questions about a book.  Retell a story.  Left and Right.  Spring CVC words.  Letter of the week Ww.  Home/School Connection:  Bring a Ww item from home.

Math: Counting 6 and 7, making sets of 6 and 7, making smaller sets from 6 and 7.  Recognize numerals 0-9.  Sequencing a four step story.  Spring patterning.  Learning our important phone numbers.  

Science:  How do plants grow?  We will explore the different parts of a plant and how they grow and get their nourishment.  They will plant their own  seeds. Vocabulary:  flower, root, leaves, stem,seeds, sprout.  What makes a flower grow?  The children will observe and predict how fast their seed will grow

Afternoon Enrichment:

Monday:  :"Our World and Beyond":  The children will travel to India.  They will learn where India is located in relation to the United States.  We will watch a video which will give the children an overview of the country.  The children will learn about Mother Theresa and her good works with the poor.  

Tuesday: We will continue learning about letter Ww.  The children will go on a letter W  hunt around the room.   The children will identify W words.  We will concentrate on beginning and ending sounds in words and stringing sounds together to form words.

Wednesday:  We will continue to review numbers 1-20.  The children will identify numbers before and after a given number.  We will go on a walk outside and the children will collect various items and sort them into groups.

Thursday: Bushel of Books. We will read A Color of His Own By:  Leo Leoni.  This book follows a chameleon exploring the issues of personal identity and personal friendship.  The chameleon finds that companionship is more important than having a color of his own.  Sequencing a story.  Retelling the story. Predicting the outcome.

Friday: We will take a virtual field trip to the ocean.  This will enable the children to see the wide variety of living creatures that live in the ocean.  We will also explore the difference between salt and fresh water.  Why do things float in saltwater?? Why doesn’t the ocean freeze?  We will also explore the  different layers in the ocean with a fun experiment.