Peek At Our Week September 26 - September 30, 2022

Religion:  Unit 1:  God Made the World:  God Made My Church Family.  The children will be introduced to their Church Family.  They will know that they belong to the Church and know that this is God’s family.  They will learn about the special roles of priests and Mary and hear about the Saints.

Language/Literacy:  Unit 1- Week 4:  “Friends Working and Playing Together- “How do friends get along together?”.  Concept words:  afraid, happy, mad, mean, nice, sad.  Amazing words:  business, brave, rescue, accident, apologize, argue.  The children will break words with syllable segmentation as well as blending of syllables.  Use language in a discussion.  Follow classroom rules and routines.  Understand the meaning of words, retell a story, and answer questions about a book.  Identifying upper and lowercase letters and differentiate between big and little letters.  Letter of the week:  Dd.  Home/School Connection:  Bring a D item from home.

Math: Numbers and Operations:  Use verbal ordinal terms.  Use words to rote count from 1 to 30.  We will sort objects into different groups.  We will discuss how they can be sorted by color, shape, or type.

**Assessments will begin this week and continue into next week.  This information will be shared with parents during Parent/Teacher Conferences in October.

Science:  The boys and girls will all be Paleontologists.They  will use our scientific tools: tweezers, googles, magnifying glasses, and hammers to explore dinosaur eggs.  The children will each break open their own dinosaur egg.

Afternoon Enrichment:

Monday:  “Our World and Beyond”:  We will continue our tour of some of the states and visit Michigan.  This state is the birthplace of Henry Ford.  The children will learn about how the first cars were assembled.  We will explore the process of an assembly line.  

Tuesday:  We will continue our exploration of the alphabet with the letter of the week D.  The children will practice writing the upper and lowercase letter D.  The children will begin to differentiate between lowercase b and d.  

Wednesday:  We will explore number 4.  The children will practice writing  the number with tally marks and the symbol.  The children will identify how to represent four with a variety of objects.

Thursday:  “Bushel of Books”:  We will read Ten Apples Up on Top By:  Dr. Suess. Concepts of Print:  cover of the book, title, author, beginning of book.The children will predict how many bean bags we can stack on top of the teacher’s head.  Using their fine motor and counting skills, the children will create their own 10 apple stack.

Friday:  STEAM;   We will read Mouse Shapes  By:  Ellen Stoll Walsh.  The children will create their own mouse using a variety of shapes.   The children will explore and make  a variety of shapes using sticks, straws and pipecleaners.