Religion Objectives: 

God Made Light – Jesus is our light. The children will be grateful to God for the gift of life, identify Jesus as light and know that Jesus had the power to heal. 

Seeds: 2nd Sunday of Advent. The children will understand that Jesus has a mother named Mary and father named Joseph. 

The children will hear the story of the real Saint Nicholas. They will learn how he dedicated his life to serving God as a young man. Bishop Nicholas became known throughout the land for his generosity to those in need, his love for children, and his concern for sailors and ships.       

Literacy Objectives: 

OWL – Unit 3 – Unit 3 – Week 3 – What can we do in our community? Learn new concept words: gym, mall, movie theatre, supermarket and zoo.  Learn amazing words: delicious, dough, stir, lovely, sip, and ingredient.  Blend onset and rime, letter naming and saying sounds, similar and different, beginning sounds, and deleting syllables.  Focus on our letter of the week Kk and identifying it in our environment.  Assigning numbers to alphabet letters and letter formation with roll and match. 

Math Objectives: 

Naming cones, spheres, cubes and cylinders in our environment. Understanding the concept of “not”. Making boxes. Creating shapes using shapes.  Making 3D shapes with marshmallows and toothpicks. 

Social Studies:  

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

We will use language to tell about an experience when we went shopping and become aware of what it means to be a consumer. 

Science Objectives:    

The magic of the season comes to our classroom as the children grow candy caneswith “magic” growing candy cane seeds. 

Santa’s magic milk.  We all know he loves a tall glass of milk with his cookies. Colors will swirl and glitter jumps in this exciting experiment! 

Afternoon Enrichment: 

Exploration of the Five Senses.  We will learn about the five senses and apply this knowledge in creating ornaments for a Christmas tree to appeal to our senses. 

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.