Peek At Our Week November 6 - November 10, 2023

                             NO SCHOOL FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 10th

Religion:  God Made Holy Things - God Made Food.  The children will express gratitude for the food God the Father gives us.  The children will express an understanding that the Mass is a festive meal.  The children will state a desire to feed those who are hungry. **We will be attending Mass on Tuesday with our 4th Grade Prayer Buddies**

Language/Literacy:Heggerty Phonemic Awareness Week 10: 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.  Reading and writing -  starting at the top and going left to right, sweeping left to right and continuing on next line concepts.  Focus letter of the week: Hh.  

Math:  Numbers and Operations:  use concrete models and make word problems for subtracting 1 to 5 items. Data Analysis:  sort objects and describe similarities and differences between groups.  Graphing:  use a graph organizer and analyze data. Focus Shape:  Rectangle

Science:  The children will each make a boat from aluminum foil.  They will use their prediction skills to determine how many pieces of candy corn they think their boat will hold and still float. We will determine which boat could hold the most/fewest and still float.

Social Studies:  Elections:  The children will hold a mock election to vote for their favorite Halloween candy.  They will be introduced to the concept of elections and the voting process.  The children will tally results and compare data using a bar graph.  Vocabulary:  ballot, voting booth, elections, ballot box, most/fewest.

Afternoon Enrichment

Monday:  Our World and Beyond:  The children will review the other states we have learned about.  We will identify where Maine is on the United States map.  The children will learn about lighthouses.

Tuesday:  We will continue our study of the letter Hh.  The children will identify the uppercase and lowercase letter Hh as well as write the letter.,  How many of our friends have the letter Hh in their name?

Wednesday: Our number exploration will continue with the number 8.  We will practice writing it as well as collecting and sorting 8 objects.  The children will represent the number 8 as a symbol, tally marks and the written word.

Thursday:  Bushel of Books:  We will read Caps for Sale  by Esphyr Slobodkina.  The children will listen to the book and following this will do a sequencing and number activity which corresponds with the book.  The children will also act out and retell this story.

Friday : NO SCHOOL/  TEACHER PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT DAY