Religion Objectives:  

Seeds – The Season of Advent. The children will learn that Advent is the awaiting of Jesus’ birth.  The children will also connect the celebration of Jesus’ birthday at Christmas with their own birthdays. The children will also think of several kind acts they might perform as a gift to Jesus and grow in desire to prepare for His birthday. We will also learn that the Advent wreath is a reminder that we are getting ready for His birthday and the meaning of the candles – peace, joy, love and hope. 

Literacy Objectives: 

OWL – Unit 3- Week 2.  What do workers in our community do?   Learn new concept words: bus driver, doctor, job, mail carrier, police officer and teacher.  Learn amazing words: alarm, emergency, firefighter, equipment, report and train. Same and different sounds, letter naming, matching upper and lowercase letters, saying letter sounds, what is my word, segment onsets and rimes, and deleting syllables.  The children will also practice identifying rhyming words from a set of three, identify onsets, join syllables to form words and identify the ending sounds in our classmates’ names.  Focus on our letter of the week Jj and identifying it in our environment.  We will also learn the attributes of our shape of the month – the star. 

Math Objectives: 

Name common shapes, name common solid shapes (sphere, rectangular prism, and cube) and demonstrate use of location words. 

Social Studies:  

My BIG World - Cold is Coming. Compare how different animals ready for winter. How do different animals adapt to cold weather changes? 

Science Objectives:   

Snowstorm in a jar - this is a fun Winter activity and great opportunity to talk about and discuss a bit of weather science.  How does it snow?  What causes snow to form?  

In the sensory table for letter Jj week, the children will explore Jelly BeadZ.  Jelly Beadz are tiny hard plastic polymer beads originally developed by the USDA in the ‘60’s to help farmers irrigate their crops more efficiently. They absorb water very quickly and release that water much more slowly. This polymer is used in many common consumer products like baby diapers!  It’s also used to help keep plants alive when mixed in the soil. 

Afternoon Enrichment: 

Laura Numeroff author study!  She is the talented author of the “If You Give” books.  We will explore these wonderful circular texts and alliteration through journaling and Venn diagram comparisons.