Religion:  God Made Air:  The children will explain what air does for us and express  appreciation for God the Father's gift of air.  The children will express an understanding that air is necessary for life, just like God.

Literacy:  OWL - Unit 4 - Week 1:  Welcome to the Farm:  What is a farm?  Learn new concept words:  animal, barn, farmer, food, land, plant.  Amazing words:  turkey, wagon, pen, wool, gate, yard.  Listen to beginning sounds, upper case alphabet knowledge, name it/find it letters, same sounds, lost letters and tracing letters in the air.  Focus letter of the week:  Nn.

 Math:  Counting 5, ways to make 5, and smaller sets from 5.  Matching numbers 1 to 5 with the correct grouping.  Stacking three dimensional shapes to make new shapes.  Ordering numbers 1 - 20.

Science:  Hibernating.  The children will further explore why animals hibernate.  They will learn what animals do before they hibernate and how they can sleep all winter, stay warm and not get hungry.  The children will act out word meanings:  hibernate, forage. We will also talk about animals that migrate and stay in their habitat.   

Social Studies:  Scholastic:  My BIG World Clifford:  “Where Are The Winter Animals?”  Science focus:  animal behavior.  Vocabulary:  act out word meanings.  Language:  visual discrimination/vocabulary.  Math:  counting.

Afternoon Enrichment:

Monday:  "Our World and Beyond"  We will travel down to Antarctica  What would it be like to live there? The children will learn what the different types of penguins that live in Antarctica. The children will be able to locate this area on a map. We will learn that ANT ARTICA means the opposite of Artic.  They will observe that these two areas are opposite each other on the globe.

Tuesday:  We will learn more about the letter N.  The children will go on an N letter hunt around the room.  

Wednesday:  Number exploration- lucky number 13! Forming the number correctly, the letters in the name, identifying number 13 and counting to number 13.

Thursday:We will read Sneezy the Snowman  By:  Maureen Wright.  This is a cute story about a snowman who is always cold and causes himself to melt. The children will sequence and retell the story. Concepts of Print.  

Friday:  STEM:  We will read The Napping House and The Full Moon at the Napping House by Audrey Wood.  THe children will compare the two stories and sequence the events.   Following the theme of The Napping House, the children will have to construct a bed out of clothespins and craft sticks.