Peek At Our Week November 28 - December 2, 2022

Religion:  Advent- The children will be excited  about preparing for the birth of Baby Jesus.  They will know that at Christmas we celebrate the birth of Jesus.  The children will desire to prepare for Jesus' birthday and think of several kind acts they might perform as a gift for Jesus.  

Language/Literacy:  Unit 3 - Week 1 - All Around Our Community - What is in our community?  Concept words:  hospital, house, library, post office, park, and street.  Amazing words:  bridge, entrance, traffic, fountain, statue, and gift.  Break it with onsets and rime, letter naming, delete syllables, and take away word parts, recognizing authors and illustrators.  The children will answer questions about a book and respond appropriately.  Relate your experiences to books.  Identify common features in a community. Focus letter of the week:Jj.  Home/School Connection:  Bring a Jj item from home.

Math:   Know objects can be counted, sort objects and describe similarities  and differences between groups, adding up to 5, subtracting 5 and counting with one-to-one correspondence.  Counting and tracing, identifying patterns.

.Science:  Jingle Bell Science.  The children will predict how far away from the jingle bell the magnetic want needs to be before it attracts or pulls the bell.  Students will predict how many jingle bells they think will fit on their magnetic wands.

Afternoon Enrichment

Monday:   “Our World and Beyond”:  We will learn about the United States of America.  The children will locate the states we learned about.  We will explore the flag of the United States and what the stars and stripes represent.  

Tuesday:  We will continue exploration of the letter Jj.  We will practice making the letter J and go on a letter K hunt around the classroom.  The boys and girls will play an upper and lowercase letter matching game.

Wednesday: We will focus on the number 10.  How many different ways can we represent this number?  We will practice one to one correspondence counting forwards and backwards to 10.

Thursday:We will read "Gingerbread Baby" and "Gingerbread Friends" by Jan Brett.  The children will sequence the stories and we will discuss the similarities and differences.  We will make Gingerbread playdough.

Friday:  STEM:  Dancing Jingle Bell Experiment.  The children will predict what happens when jingle bells and dried cranberries are put in a glass of soda.  They will observe that the bubbles in the soda push the cranberries and the jingle bells up to the top.  When the bubbles pop , the bells and berries fall down.  

We will also do a Christmas Sink or Float.  The children will predict whether a Christmas object will sink or float.  They will observe and identify that this depends on the objects density.  If the object is less dense that the water it will float.  Density is how tightly packed the material is in the object.