Week at a Glance August 29-September 2
Math:
PreK3 - Begin to make connections with numerals and their quantities while playing our "Wormy" and apple hide and seek game.
PreK4 - Sorting various objects into similar and different groups. Discover that objects can be counted. Recognize colors with a focus on red, our color of the month. Use one to one correspondence to count. Count up to 5 objects and demonstrate that the order of counting sequence is always the same.
Science:
PreK3 - Explore how apples grow. Taste and compare various kinds of apples and graph our preferences.
PreK4 - We will be playing Sound Bingo as we listen and try to identify familiar environmental sounds such as a dogs barking and a baby crying. We will become more aware of the sounds around us and heighten our sensory awareness. We are learning an developing through play!
Social Studies:
PreK3 - As we get to know each other, we will learn about differences and similarities about our new friends at school.
PreK4 - We will meet and learn about the workers at our school. My Big World - the Class Rules.
Religion:
PreK3 - Unit 1 "God Made Me Live". Lesson 2 "I Can See". We will learn that God gave us eyes to see. We will thank God for the gift of sight. We will listen to the story of the lost coin.
Owl (Opening the world of Learning):
*This comprehensive pre-kindergarten curriculum is used in our Pre- K 4 classroom.
Unit 1 "Welcome New Friends" - Week 1 - "What makes each of us special?" Concept words: boy, classroom, different, girl, grow, same. Amazing words: confuse, exciting, favorite, frown, grin, nervous. We will focus on phonological awareness with letter and environmental sounds. We will learn what is a letter, the letters in our name, and others names. We will explore the concept of alike versus different.