Peek At Our Week April 21 - April 25, 2025

                             **NO SCHOOL MONDAY APRIL 21st

Religion:  Seeds Unit 4:  we continue the Mission of Jesus Christ.  Lesson Theme:  The children will recognize that love and peace are the best gifts. The children will recognize that Jesus brings peace.  They will identify the Church seasons.

Language/Literacy:  Heggerty Lesson Overview Weeks 28-35 :  Week 30.  Students will produce words that rhyme.  Students will isolate the initial sound in spoken words.  Students will learn to blend three phonemes into a spoken word.  Students will continue to practice phoneme isolation with final and medial(vowel) phonemes in spoken words.  Students will learn to segment a spoken word into three phonemes.  Students will manipulate the initial phoneme in a spoken work with adding, deleting, and substituting.

Math:  Recognize and identify numerals 0-9.  Matching shapes.  One more/one less.  Counting and graphing shapes.  

Science:  Earth Day:   When you throw something away you make garbage.  Too much garbage can harm the Earth.  When you recycle you can use things again. What can we recycle and use again?We will read a book about recycling.   We will become recycling superheroes and journal about how we can be friends of the Earth.  We will demonstrate how clouds produce rain.  It will give the children a hands-on visual.  We will estimate how many droplets of water would be needed to make our cloud produce rain.  Then the children will count how many actual drips it will take to get the blue water down through their clouds.Vocabulary:  condensation, evaporation, precipitation.   

Social Studies:  Scholastic:  My BIG World:  Clifford.  “Who Picks Up the Trash?”:  Social Studies focus:  Earth Day; community workers.  Theme Vocabulary:  trash, community, sanitation, gear, vest,gloves,boots.  Skills We’re Practicing:  group discussion, critical thinking, vocabulary, letter recognition.

Afternoon Enrichment

Monday:  NO SCHOOL

Tuesday:  The children will review letters A-W.  They will play a letter match game and participate in a letter sound Write the Room.

Wednesday:   The children will review numbers 1-20.  They will continue to practice writing their numbers, put them in correct number order and 1:1 correspondence.

Thursday:   Bushel of Books:  We will read Don’t let Pigeon Drive the Bus by Mo Willems.  The children will discuss the book and sequence the story.  The children will imagine and create a vehicle to drive.

Friday:   The boys and girls will explore different kinds of winds including: breeze, gust and gale. They will observe how a tornado is formed and we will make a tornado in a bottle.  Using a balloon we will try to make our own lightening.