Sunday, December 14, 2008

Homework 12/15-12/19

  • Trace the letters, color the pictures
  • Review numbers 0-10
  • Find and trace 10 ovals in the picture
Religion
Monday
Aim: As we prepare for Advent we will begin to listen to the story in the bible tells s about God’s plan for Jesus to be with us on earth so that we might learn about God’s love for us.
Tuesday
Aim: In preparation of Advent we continue learning from reading the bible, the angel Gabriel was sent to tell Mary that god’s plan was for her to become the mother of god’s only son, Jesus.
Activity: Connect and color the letters of the word Mary said to God’s wonderful plan.
Wednesday
Aim: As we continue in preparation for Advent we learn that Mary and Joseph were chosen to take care of baby Jesus.
Thursday
Aim: Discuss the birth of baby Jesus, students will be asked whose birthday do we celebrate on Christmas?
Friday
Aim: Review all we learned about Advent, and discuss what words we use to celebrate Christmas.
Math
Monday
Aim: Continue learning to add with sums to 4 and review numbers.
Tuesday
Aim: Continue practicing to add to sums of 4, practice writing and recognizing the numbers.
Wednesday
Aim: Review joining of 2 or more, as this prepares the students for adding numbers together big or small.
Thursday
Aim: Continuing joining groups of 2 or more, using manipulative
Friday
Aim: Review joining, adding and number recognition
Use manipulative and number bingo
Language Arts
Monday
Aim: Developing skills of phonemic awareness and Rhyming
Activity: Mother Goose book
Tuesday
Aim: Continuing phonemic awareness and rhyming
Rhyming picture cards
Wednesday
Aim: Continue phonemic awareness, help the children with the concept of rhyming
Activity: whole class will be listening to a rhyme
Thursday
Aim: recite bug rhymes from the mother goose book
Activity: tell children to listen carefully so they can answer questions about what happens in the rhymes.
Friday
Aim: Review rhyming words
Science
Monday
Aim: Children will identify sounds
What different kind of sounds can you hear?
Tuesday
Aim: Continue learning to identify sounds
Wednesday
Aim: Children will learn understand that objects move in different ways
Push, back, fourth, up, down, roll
Thursday
Aim: Children will tell about the motion of objects at different speeds
Fast, slow
Social Studies
Monday
Aim: Children will learn what families do to prepare for Christmas
Tuesday
Aim: children will learn how depending on the school or family they are part of they celebrate Christmas differently
Wednesday
Aim: Compare and contrast family ideologies about Christmas
Thursday
Aim: Review families and Christmas

Sunday, December 7, 2008

Homework 12/5-12/8

  • Count the number of dots on each gas pump, then write the number on the line above each car.
  • Practice tracing upper and lowercase J.
  • Trace the lines to match the animal to their treat and color the picture.
  • Trace and color these hearts

Lesson Plan 12/8-12/12

Religion
Monday
Aim: Discuss the preparation for Christmas as we await for birthday of Jesus Christ a very special celebration.
Tuesday
Aim: Advent prepares us for the celebration of Jesus, and discuss more in detail what advent means what it represents.
Wednesday
Aim: Discuss the way in which each of our families prepare for Christmas.
Draw what Christmas looks like in your home.
Thursday
Aim: Discuss how the church prepares for the coming of Christ in Christmas time.
Friday
Aim: Review Christmas preparation
Class Activity: Make a glitter star to represent the stars of Bethlehem as Jesus was born.
Math
Monday
Aim: Addition readiness, students will learn to understand addition as the joining of two groups.
Students will learn to describe the effect of joining sets of objects, I will use the number line in order to demonstrate how we add objects together
Tuesday
Aim: Students will learn to add 1 to numbers 1 through 4, using manipulative
Wednesday
Aim: Continue adding numbers 0 through 5 using manipulative
Thursday
Aim: Adding continued, counting numbers 0 through 6 using manipulative
Friday
Aim: Adding continued, numbers 0 through 7, using manipulative

Language Arts
Monday
Aim: Students will be introduced to the letter of the week letter J. Learn sound and words with letter J, continue building language skills by completing sentences with letter J.
Tuesday
Aim: Students will work on recognizing the letter J in upper and lowercase form, learn more words with J, by building their vocabulary.
Wednesday
Aim: Students will begin tracing and sky writing the letter J. Continuing to build their vocabulary, read aloud a book.
Thursday
Aim: Students begin to practice writing the letter J inside the lines, followed by a letter hunt with objects or words that begin with J.
Friday
Aim: Review our letter of the week. Discuss that there is a beginning, middle, and end in a story. Read aloud a book of the students’ choice.
Science
Monday
Aim: Learn to identify three of a kind, compare and sort physical attributes of animals.
View pictures of animals that are sorted by the same attributes.
Tuesday
Aim: Learn what animals are of the same kind for example birds, insects, and reptiles etc.
Class discussion on our findings, and I will be asking them what animals should be grouped together.
Wednesday
Aim: Students will identify animals by looking at their physical attributes or similarities that might point out they should be of the same kind. Looking or paying attention to animals with feathers, wings, or animals that can fly are going to help them determine whether they should be grouped together.
Thursday
Aim: Continue to identify animals of the same kind. Begin to sort animals of the same kind them on an activity page.
Friday
Aim: Review animals of the same kind and discuss what we learned this week on physical attributes.
Social Studies
Monday
Aim: Students will begin to learn that certain things belong in certain places just as people have their place on the earth.
Tuesday
Aim: Students begin to identify who, what, and where it belongs.
Wednesday
Aim: Students will be shown pictured and they are to identify where they belong.
Thursday
Aim: Students will continue discussing things that belong by giving examples using their prior knowledge on the whereabouts of things.
Friday
Aim: Review the belongingness of objects
Draw a picture of things that belong in a place familiar to the student

Sunday, November 30, 2008

Homework 12/1-12/5

  • Draw a line to connect the upper and lowercase letters that belong together.
  • Draw a line to match each number 2 to a group of 2 things.
  • Circle the shape that you see in each picture.
  • Color penguin's hat black, color the pictures to match penguin's hat.

Lesson Plan 12/1-12/5

Religion
Monday
Aim: Students will learn about things that god gives us
Read aloud: God Gives Meat to Eat from our pre school bible numbers 11:31-35
Tuesday
Aim: Continue learning about things that God gives us
Students will draw things that god gives us
Wednesday
Aim: Students will learn what advent is
Small class activity
Thursday
Aim: Students will learn what we do during Advent
Small class activity
Friday
Aim: Review Advent
Math
Monday
Aim: Counting readiness, identify and write 0 and 1
Pg. 47, Pg.33
Tuesday
Aim: Counting
Identify and write 2 and 3
Wednesday
Aim: Counting continued
Identify and write 4 and 5 pg.49, Draw 4 flowers in the vase
Thursday
Aim: Continue Counting
Identify and write 6 and 7, circle 6 things in each box, write the number 6 on each line
Friday
Aim: Continue Counting
Identify and write 8 and 9, put eight shoes into pairs. Draw a line to match each shoe on the left with a shoe that is the same on the right.
Language Arts
Monday
Aim: Introduce our letter the week letter I
Students will learn the sound of I and come up with words that begin with I
Small class activity: Use Popsicle sticks to form the letter I
Tuesday
Aim: Students will begin tracing the letter I in upper and lower case recognizing each one from the other
Color the insect “a butterfly” design their butterfly wings by coloring in different shapes with their crayons.
Wednesday
Aim: Students will begin to practice writing the letter I in upper and lowercase
Write the lowercase i on the line. Color the pictures.
Thursday
Aim: Students continue to practice tracing and writing the letter I
Small class activity: Letter hunt for objects that begin with letter I
Friday
Aim: Review the letter of the week letter I
Review words, sounds, recognizing upper and lowercase I
Color, cut, paste activity, put each insect in a container
Science
Monday
Aim: Observing and measuring properties of objects
Children will learn what a solid, a liquid, and a gas are.
Tuesday
Aim: Children will explore the properties of solids, liquids, and gases.
Children will sort solid objects on a mat cut and paste activity
Wednesday
Aim: How can solids and liquids change?
Children will observe and demonstrate that solids and liquids can be changed.
Cut, bend, mix, fold, melt, and freeze
Thursday
Aim: What does liquid look like?
Children will place liquid objects on a mat cut and paste activity
Friday
Aim: Solid or Liquid? Review solid, liquid, and gas.
Color, cut, and glue solid and liquid on to the correct space on the activity sheet
Social Studies
Monday
Aim: Students will learn about the world, how the world we live in is called “earth”
Discuss there are many places outside of New York City
Tuesday
Aim: Continue discussing the world
Learn about major parts of the world, look at pictures etc.
Wednesday
Aim: Continue discussing the world
Discuss different parts of the world and things they do differently from us, for example traditions, weather etc.
Thursday
Aim: Discuss what we know about the world
Draw things that are familiar to us in this world
Friday
Aim: Review all we have discussed about the world we live in, things that are familiar to us and things we learned about places around us (countries, continents etc.)

Saturday, November 15, 2008

Lesson Plan 11/24-11/26

Religion
Monday
Aim: Students will learn about disobedience, what it means and how god does not appreciate disobedience
Activity in religion book Discovering God’s World
Tuesday
Aim: Students will read a story about disobedience in our pre school
Activity: Thanksgiving prayer and drawing a picture of our favorite meal during thanksgiving in our religion book Discovering God’s World
Wednesday
Aim: Review our thanksgiving prayer in preparation for the thanksgiving holiday remembering to give thanks to god for the food we will eat and all things God gives us
Math
Monday
Aim: Sizes Continued tall, short, long, big etc.
Context ask students to give examples of sizes
Tuesday
Aim: Sizes reviewed; recognizing size and being able to distinguish sizes correctly
Class Activity worksheet on sizes
Language Arts
Monday
Aim: Introduce our letter of the week letter I sound of I, and recognizing letter I
Class activity look at our letter chart look for the letter I
Tuesday
Aim: Students continue with our letter of the week I
Class Activity: Think about words that begin with I begin tracing the letter I
Science
Monday
Aim: Introduce properties of light
Class discussion and find examples that demonstrate properties of light
Tuesday
Aim: Continue properties of light
Activity look for things that have light discuss things that we know have light, where does light come from?
Wednesday
Aim: Review properties of light
Discussion and small group activity
Social Studies
Monday
Aim: Students will discuss all they have learned up to this point
Communities, Small groups, People and their surroundings
Wednesday
Aim: Review Social settings and their relationship to communities
Class discussion and read aloud a book on the interaction of people and children in a community

Homework 11/17-11/21

  • Circle the shortest thing in each row, then color the pictures
  • Color the pictures in green
  • Color the spaces with uppercase H red, color the space with lowercase h purple
  • Draw a line between each item and its matching shape

Lesson Plan 11/17-11/21

Religion
Monday
Aim: Students will be learning new prayers in preparation for thanksgiving.
Read aloud and discuss form our pre school bible recite the prayer for thanksgiving
Tuesday
Aim: Students will recite a prayer from their religion book Discovering God’s World
Read aloud and recite the thanksgiving prayer
Wednesday
Aim: Students practice praying by giving thanks
Read aloud: All Things Bright and Beautiful book
Thursday
Aim: Students will read about Cain and Abel
Students will learn about brothers and sin Genesis 3-4
Friday
Aim: Continue reading about brothers Cain and Abel
Class discussion: Genesis 4
Math
Monday
Aim: Develop language for bigger, smaller, longer, shorter
Students circle the picture that is the same size
Tuesday
Aim: Continue developing language for smaller, bigger etc.
Activity Sheet: Super sizes draw a line between balls of the same size
Wednesday
Aim: Developing language continued
Activity: Circle the biggest thing; draw an X on the smallest thing
Thursday
Aim: Language development continued on small, big, etc.
Activity: Cut out the boxes, and put them in size order
Friday
Aim: Develop language continued
Activity sheet: Some things are long some things are short, circle things that are short

Language Arts
Monday
Aim: Introduce the letter of the week Hh
Students will learn the sound of the letter H and recognize the letter Hh
Tuesday
Aim: Students will learn to identify words with H and students will begin to practice tracing the letter H.
Wednesday
Aim: Students will differentiate upper and lowercase H, continue practicing to trace the letter H
Thursday
Aim: Students will begin learning to write the letter H in uppercase and lowercase form
Practice writing H in their notebooks
Friday
Aim: Review are letter of the week letter H sound, words, tracing, writing, and recognizing the letter H in upper and lowercase
Science
Monday
Aim: Students will be introduced to heat: production and conduction
Class Discussion
Tuesday
Aim: Continue Heat: Production and conduction
Class discussion and student activity
Wednesday
Aim: Students will be introduced to electricity and circuits
Class discussion
Thursday
Aim: Continue electricity and circuits
Class discussion and class activity
Friday
Aim: Review electricity, circuits, heat, and production and conduction
Class Discussion
Social Studies
Monday
Aim: Students will have an overview on communities, why are these places in the community important to have?
Class discussion
Tuesday
Aim: Students will discuss certain places in the community you often visit
For e.g. supermarket, restaurant, store etc.
Wednesday
Aim: Students discuss their favorite place in their community
Class discussion what does this place look like what is the thing about this place that attracts them? For e.g. park, library etc.
Thursday
Aim: Students will draw what they discussed the previous day about their favorite place in the community
Class activity: draw and color their favorite place in their community
Friday
Aim: Review the community in terms of familiarity and what they like most about their community.
Class discussion

Saturday, November 8, 2008

  • Trace the shape. Trace the word of the shape
  • Trace the word yellow in the second box, then in the third box, write yellow on your own. color the three items that could be yellow
  • Finish the patterns

Lesson Plan 11/10-11/14

Religion
Monday
Aim: Children will read about Jacob
Read Aloud: Jacob has a special dream
Tuesday
No School
Wednesday
Aim: Continue reading about Jacob
Read Aloud: Jacob deceives his father
Thursday
Aim: Jacob continued
Read aloud: Jacob meets Rachel
Friday
Aim: Review all the stories we read about Jacob
Class Discussion about Jacob
Math
Monday
Aim: Students will be re introduced to patterns
Activity learn to duplicate patterns
Wednesday
Aim: Patterns continued
Activity sheet on duplicating patterns
Thursday
Aim: Patterns continued
Students will view pattern slides and then are to duplicate patterns on an activity sheet
Friday
Aim: Review patterns
Activity complete worksheet on patterns
Language Arts
Monday
Aim: Introduce the letter of the week letter Gg
Learn the sounds of letter G and become familiar with letter G's appearance
Wednesday
Aim: Begin Tracing letter Gg, recognize upper and lowercase Gg
Trace the letter G
Thursday
Aim: Continue tracing the letter G
Look for words that begin with the letter Gg
Friday
Aim: Review the letter of the week letter Gg
Activity: Alphabet bingo
Science
Monday
Aim: What can a magnet do?
children will begin to understand that magnets attract some metal objects
Wednesday
Aim: Magnetic forces: attraction
activity using materials that attract magnets like paper clips etc.
Thursday
Aim: Magnetic forces: repulsion
Activity materials that are repelled from magnets
Friday
Aim: Review Magnetic Forces: attraction and repulsion
Class discussion followed by an activity using materials involving magnets
Social Studies
Monday
Aim: What is surrounds our community?
Class discussion: schools, churches, restaurants, stores, offices, etc.
Wednesday
Aim: Continue looking at the surrounding community
Class discussion describe what the community looks like around us and how they vary from others we may visit or pass by
Thursday
Aim: Continue the surrounding community
Activity: draw a picture of your community
Friday
Aim: Review the surrounding community
Class discussion on what we viewed on communities, how they differ or how they're the same


Sunday, November 2, 2008

Homework 11/3-11/7

  • Trace and write F
  • Color the pictures red
  • Find and color the rectangles in the picture
  • Circle the picture that is the same as the first

Lesson Plan 11/3-11/7

Religion
Monday
Aim: Children will learn about how God helps Joseph
Discussion: Students will discuss what we read in the bible and how god helps each of us
Tuesday
Aim: Children will continue learning about helping
Read aloud "God helps a poor woman" preschoolers bible
Wednesday
Aim: Students continue learning about helping and how God helps all people
Read aloud " A room for god's helper"
Thursday
Aim: Students continue learning about help and being helpful
Read aloud "Jesus calls some helpers"
Friday
Aim: Review the topic help as God loves to help all people and wants all people to be helpful to others
Math
Monday
Aim: Learn about patterns, students re visit this theme which was briefly introduced
Activity sheet on patterns
Tuesday
Aim: students will review positions front, behind, beside, above, below, in, and out.
Students will answer questions regarding positions
Wednesday
Aim: Students will learn about opposites big ,small, long, short, same, different
Activity sheet on opposites
Thursday
Aim: Counting and recognizing numbers
Students will draw a line to match each number to 1 thing
Friday
Aim: Continue counting and recognizing numbers/ review all the above material
Students will draw a line to match each number to 2 things
Language Arts
Monday
Aim: students will repeat rhyming words, trace the letter Ee, final review practice writing Ee in upper and lowercase form
Tuesday
Aim: continue using rhyming words,introduce the letter F as our letter of the week
Students will learn the sound of F and words that begin with the letter F
Wednesday
Aim:Continue rhyming words
Students begin to practice tracing the letter F
Thursday
Aim: Students will try to think about words they know or think rhyme
Trace uppercase and lowercase Ff
Friday
Aim: Review words that rhyme
Practice writing upper and lowercase Ff
Science
Monday
Aim: Students will learn positions and motion of objects
Discuss where the objects in the picture appear over, under, in or on
Tuesday
Aim: Continue learning positions
Activity sheet: students will need to place cards onto mats for the animal who appears in or on an object
Wednesday
Aim: Learning positions continued
Activity sheet on under and over
Thursday
Aim: Continue learning positions "Where is it"?
Activity: color, cut, and glue in,on, under, and over
Friday
Aim: Review positions in, on, under, and over
Small group activity look for objects in the class that will be placed into positions that are in, on, under, and over
Social Studies
Monday
Aim: Students will learn about community workers
Discuss who they are and what they do for the community
Tuesday
Aim: Students learn that neighborhoods consists of a variety of jobs
Read aloud " My Neighborhood"
Wednesday
Aim: Students learn that there are a lot of different jobs in the community
Discuss community workers and make a chart of the different jobs they form as part of the community
Thursday
Aim: students learn the importance of community workers
Handout: identify the community workers and color them
Friday
Aim: Review community workers
Class discussion on what we learned on community workers

Saturday, October 25, 2008

Homework 10/27-10/31

  • write the letter D
  • color the objects in yellow
  • match up the shape with an item
  • circle things that are small

Lesson Plan 10/27-10/31

Religion
Monday
Aim: Students will learn about Adam and Eve
Read aloud: The Preschoolers Bible, God makes Adam and Eve
Tuesday
Aim: Students will learn about the Good Samaritan
Activity children will color the word love that Jesus was talking about in this story
Wednesday
Aim: Students will learn about the garden of Eden
Read aloud Preschoolers Bible
Class Discussion on disobedience
Thursday
Aim: Children will read about Halloween in their religion instruction book
Activity: Color, Cut and paste an activity in their religion book "Discovering God's World
Friday
Aim: Students will do their morning prayer, followed by a reading from the bible
Class discussion on what they were able to retrieve from the reading
Math
Monday
Aim: Students will revisit one to one correspondence
Students will draw a line to group objects that belong together
Tuesday
Aim: One to one correspondence, learning to group objects
Activity: Grouping objects together
Wednesday
Aim: Continue learning one to one correspondence
Activity Draw a line to match each object with the other
Thursday
Aim: One to one correspondence continued
Activity on pg.30
Friday
Aim: review one to one correspondence
activity sheet
Language Arts
Monday
Aim: Students will review the Letter D
Activity: Students will practice writing the letter Dd and students will also identify what the letter Dd looks like
Tuesday
Aim: Students will be introduced to the letter Ee
Learn the sounds of E, come up with words that start with the letter E
Wednesday
Aim: Students will begin to practice tracing the letter Ee,
Activity: Tracing E's
Thursday
Aim: Students learn to differentiate lower and uppercase Ee
Activity: Color the letters on pg.11
Friday
Aim: Review the letter Ee
Small group activity letter hunt Ee
Science
Monday
Aim: Students will learn plant from animal the differences even though they are both living things
Activity: Identify plant from animal when given several pictures to identify from
Tuesday
Aim: Students will begin to familiarize themselves with animal and plants
Cut and paste activity on animal
Wednesday
Aim: continue to familiarize animal/plant
Cut and paste plants on activity sheet
Thursday
Aim: Review plants ans animals
small group activity in science book
Friday
Aim: Discuss what we learned on plants and animals
Social Studies
Monday
Aim: Students will learn about small groups
Class discussion: on small groups in social settings
Tuesday
Aim: Students will identify small groups
Discussion who can be part of small groups families, friends, etc.
Wednesday
Aim: Students continue learning about small groups
Activity: students will be placed in small groups
Thursday
Aim: Review small groups
Activity: Draw a picture of a small group of children or people doing an activity
Friday
Aim: Class discussion on what we learned about small groups and who can be part of a small group

Friday, October 17, 2008

Lesson Plan Oct.20-24

Religion
Monday
Aim: Children will listen and discuss God's creations
Read aloud "God makes wonderful things" from our class the preschoolers bible
Tuesday
Aim: Continue learning about God's eternal love
Activity to color a sheet stating thank you to god for all his love
Wednesday
Aim: Discuss how we pray at church
Class discussion about how Jesus prayed often
Thursday
Aim: Discuss how we pray at school
Class discussion about how Jesus prayed with his friends and taught them how to pray
Friday
Aim: Discuss how we pray at home or when we are alone
Class discussion our morning prayer consists of the "Our Father" or also known as the Lord's Prayer
Math
Monday
Aim: Students continue learning about size and positions in, out, front, behind, and up, down.
Activity sheet on the things mentioned above
Tuesday
Aim: Continue learning sizes small. medium, large
Class activity sheet on identifying a smaller object
Wednesday
Aim: Review sizes
Activity: identify small and large things
Thursday
Aim:continue learning size differentiate long and short objects
Activity sheet on things that are short
Friday
Aim: reviewing sizes
activity sheet on long objects/things
Language Arts
Monday
Aim: Students learn the order of letters in the alphabet "what letter comes after C" re introduce the letter D
Tuesday
Aim: Recite the alphabet. Introduce the letter of the week "D"Learn the sound of the letter D
Wednesday
Aim: Learn to recognize upper and lower case D
Activity: trace upper and lower case D's, color the picture
Thursday
Aim:Continue to practice writing the letter D, think about words with the letter D Letter hunt/ word hunt for D's
Friday
Aim: Review everything on the letter D
Read aloud an alphabet book
Activity: dinosaur stick puppet
Science
Monday
Aim: Students will review plants and animals
chart distinguish plant from animal
Tuesday
Aim: Learning about physical setting Discuss plants and animals and recognize their appearance
Wednesday
Aim: Students will learn to recognize that animals and people can grow and move. recognize that plants can grow
Activity: Science for pre k flip chart pictures
Thursday
Aim: Students will explore evaporation as part of science week
Activity we will use a number of materials to show how evaporation works, followed by a discussion on what we observed happen during the exploration
Friday
Aim: Review the position of objects color cut and glue
Activity sheet "where is it?" in, on, over, or under
Social Studies
Monday
Aim: Students will identify objects in a home
Activity discuss what types of objects are found at home for e.g. furniture, etc.
Aim: Students will Social Studies
Tuesday
Aim: students will discuss and review families
Students will identify the members who are part of the family
Wednesday
Aim: Continue families
Read aloud about different kinds of families
Thursday
Aim: Briefly discuss things that are done with family
Look for pictures that show families doing activities together
Friday
Aim: Discuss what we learned about families
Activity: Draw an activity that you enjoy doing with your family

Friday, October 10, 2008

Homework Oct.14-17

  • Circle the tallest thing in each row
  • Cut and glue each circle to make the picture complete
  • Trace the squares with the letters A, B, and C

Lesson Plan 10/14-10/17

Reminder no school 10/13 Columbus Day

Religion
Tuesday
Aim: Continue learning about God's eternal love
Activity to color a sheet stating thank you to god for all his love
Wednesday
Aim: Discuss how we pray at church
Class discussion about how Jesus prayed often
Thursday
Aim: Discuss how we pray at school
Class discussion about how Jesus prayed with his friends and taught them how to pray
Friday
Aim: Discuss how we pray at home or when we are alone
Class discussion our morning prayer consists of the "Our Father" or also known as the Lord's Prayer
Math
Tuesday
Aim: Continue learning sizes small. medium, large
Class activity sheet on identifying a smaller object
Wednesday
Aim: Review sizes
Activity: identify small and large things
Thursday
Aim:continue learning size differentiate long and short objects
Activity sheet on things that are short
Friday
Aim: reviewing sizes
activity sheet on long objects/things
Language Arts
Tuesday
Aim: Recite the alphabet. Introduce the letter of the week "D"
Learn the sound of the letter D
Wednesday
Aim: Learn to recognize upper and lower case D
Activity: trace upper and lower case D's, color the picture
Thursday
Aim:Continue to practice writing the letter D, think about words with the letter D
Letter hunt/ word hunt for D's
Friday
Aim: Review everything on the letter D
Read aloud an alphabet book
Activity: dinosaur stick puppet
Science
Tuesday
Aim: Learning about physical setting
Discuss plants and animals and recognize their appearance
Wednesday
Aim: Students will learn to recognize that animals and people can growand move. recognize that plants can grow
Activity: Science for pre k flip chart pictures
Thursday
Aim: Students will need to recognize plants
Cut and paste activity on plants
Friday
Aim: Students will need to recognize animals
Cut and paste activity on animals
Social Studies
Tuesday
Aim: students will discuss and review families
Students will identify the members who are part of the family
Wednesday
Aim: Continue families
Read aloud about different kinds of families
Thirsday
Aim: Briefly discuss things that are done with family
Look for pictures that show families doing activites together
Friday
Aim: Discuss what we learned about families
Activity: Draw an activity that you enjoy doing with your family



Friday, October 3, 2008

Lesson Plan Oct.6- Oct.10

Religion
Monday
Aim: Students will learn stories in the bible about God's love
Read aloud bible stories
Tuesday
Aim: students learn about God's message through the Bible
Discussion about God's message in the bible
Wednesday
Aim: Students will learn ways in which God was helpful
Discuss "what we are thankful for" followed by color activity
Thursday
NO SCHOOL
Friday
Aim: Students re-visit the theme on God's love as they learn to be thankful to god for everything they have in their lives.
Activity portraying thankfulness
Math
Monday
Aim: Introduce the shape of the week Triangle
Use manipulates to represent triangles
Tuesday
Aim: Students will learn to match shapes by size and orientation
Activity on size recognition
Wednesday
Aim: Review familiar shapes, continue to learn size
Trace shape and color
Friday
Aim: Review size, colors, and shapes
Activity page on size recognition
Science
Monday
Aim: Students will begin to learn about living things and non living things
Discussion living things are plants,animals, and people; living things move, eat, and grow
Tuesday
Aim: Understand that non living things are common objects we see everyday
Science flip chart pg.10 then discussion on living and non, living things
Wednesday
Aim: Students discover the difference between living and non living things
Activity cut and paste living and nonliving things in small chart
Friday
Aim: Review living and non living things
Color living things activity sheet
Social Studies
Monday
Aim: Students will learn about their surrounding community
Discuss what their living surrounding looks like e.g. houses, tall buildings, park, etc.
Tuesday
Aim: Continue learning about the surrounding community
Draw a picture of your home and its surroundings
Wednesday
Students will see pictures of communities rural, urban, and suburban
Students will discuss which best represents where they live
Friday
Aim: Review surrounding communities
Discuss and draw which community you like best

Homework Oct.6-10

  • Trace letter C and color the cat with a cap
  • Color the uppercase C's red. Color the lowercase C's with yellow
  • Trace the triangles, find all the triangles and color them, finally draw your own triangles
  • Color each triangle tree to find the path home

Saturday, September 27, 2008

Homework Sept.29 thru Oct.3

  • Trace the Letter B
  • Trace Lines
  • Trace squares
  • Color the picture

Lesson Plans Sept.29 thru Oct.3

Religion
Monday
Aim: How God wants us to be good helpers just as his son Jesus was
Children will do a project on helping hands that’s illustrated in their book
“Discovering God’s world”
Tuesday Aim: Continue learning ways in which we can help others
Students will draw a picture of them helping one of their friends in school
Wednesday
Aim: Students will learn how each of one is special to God
Students will do an activity on pg. 18 “belonging chain”
Thursday
Aim: God wants us to be kind, friendly, and loving to others
Students will do a practice activity illustrated on pg.18
Friday
Aim: Learn that God’s love comes to us through the love of family and friends
Students will draw a picture of a heart as a symbol of love
Math
Monday
Aim: Review circles and squares
Activity sheet on shapes
Tuesday
Aim: Continue practicing shapes
Activity sheet tracing squares
Wednesday
Aim: Learning to recognize shapes
Students will have a variety of shapes placed on their table and they are to find circles and square shapes.
Thursday
Aim: students will need to identify which shapes are circle and square
Students will identify those shapes and then color only the circles and squares
Friday
Aim: Students will have the opportunity to show their recognition of shapes
Have the students come up and draw a circle and square
Language Arts
Monday
Aim: Students will continue practicing letters A & B
Students will practice writing the letter A in their notebook
Tuesday
Aim: Learn to write letter B without tracing
Students will practice writing the letter B in their notebook
Wednesday
Aim: Students will use their mother goose book
Practice activity in mother goose and practice line tracing
Thursday
Aim: Students will be introduced to the letter C
Students will practice making the sound of the letter C
Friday
Aim: Students will recite their ABC’s as part of daily routine
Read aloud a book illustrating the letter C
Social Studies
Monday
Aim: Students learn that families vary in size
Students share who the members of their family are, draw picture
Tuesday
Aim: Read aloud “One Little World”
Wednesday
Aim: Students differentiate between living in apartment building or house
Class discussion students will discuss where they live house or building
Thursday
Aim: Continue talking about where we live
Draw a picture where we live
Friday
Aim: Students will define their meaning of family
Class discussion what is family?

Sunday, September 21, 2008

Lesson Plans for Sept.22-26

Religion
Monday
Aim: students will learn that Jesus was a good helper
Students will learn how to be good helpers
Tuesday
Aim: Students will learn about God’s love
Students will discuss who they love and care about
Wednesday
Aim: students will learn about God as their father
Students will discuss how god helps and loves each one of us
Thursday
Aim: Students will be introduced to family and belongingness as god intended
Students will discuss who the members of their family are
Friday
Aim: Students will learn about family love
Read aloud loving families pg.21 “discovering God’s world

Math
Monday
Aim: Students will continue learning to sort by shape, size, and color
Students will work in their math books pg. 13-14
Tuesday
Aim: Students will count aloud and practice recognizing numbers, shapes, and colors
Students will sort color and shape pg.16 math workbook
Wednesday
Aim: Students will learn reasoning
Practice activity on pg.17 and practice sorting wooden shapes on their tables
Thursday
Aim: Students will be introduced to different shapes
Students will color the shape activity on pgs.18-19 in math workbook
Friday
Aim: Students learn the way in which shapes move; roll, stack & slide
Students will de practice activity on pg.20 in math workbook

Language Arts
Monday
Aim: Students will recite their ABC’s. Introduce the letter of the week “B”
Students will practice looking for objects with the letter B around the classroom
Tuesday
Aim: students will learn the sound of the letter B
Students will practice tracing the letter B
Wednesday
Aim: Read aloud a book about the letter B
Students will color a bear to show it’s an animal whose name begins with the letter B
Thursday
Aim: Students will lean to identify words with the letter B
Students will have an activity bear with a basket and words with the letter B attached to the basket
Friday
Aim: Students will review everything about the letter B
Students will color and trace activity with the letter B
Science
Monday
Aim: students will begin to learn about animals that start with the letter B
Read aloud butterfly book
Tuesday
Aim: students will learn about good hygiene
Read aloud the proper techniques on brushing teeth
Sing along song this is the way we brush our teeth
Wednesday
Aim: students continue learning about personal hygiene
Healthy habits washing hands and taking a bath “act it out”
Thursday
Aim: healthy habits cont’d
Wipe our nose “act it out”
Friday
Aim: Review proper Hygiene and healthy habits
Covering our mouths “act it out”

Social Studies
Monday
Aim: students learn the names of family members
Discuss activities that family members do together
Tuesday
Aim: Read aloud families are special
Draw a picture of you and one of your family members
Wednesday
Aim: students will relate their families with their home
Class discussion
Thursday
Aim: Students will discuss who part of their family is
Students will decorate cut outs of themselves and family members
Friday
Aim: students learn about rooms in their home and identify what are the things commonly done in that part of the home.
Students will draw their favorite room in their home

Friday, September 12, 2008

Lesson Plan 9/15-9/19

September 15, 2008

Religion
Aim: Students will learn that god created the world
Students will discuss the creations of god
Math
Aim: Students will identify top, middle, bottom
Model lesson using student’s hands and desk and hand out an activity sheet for practice
Language Arts
Aim: Students will learn the ABC’s and practice reciting them aloud
Students will begin letter tracing the letter A
Become familiar with the sounds the letter A makes and recognizing capital and lower case A
Science
Aim: Students will identify the five senses
Students will begin by using the sense to see and they are to draw things they are able to see.
Social Studies
Aim: Students will learn about families
Students will identify the members in their immediate family
Students will learn how other families are alike or different

September 16, 2008
Religion
Aim: students will learn about God’s love for us
Students will learn god love us no matter who we are, or what we look like
Math
Aim: students will identify under and over
Model lesson with students and hand out an activity sheet for practice
Language Arts
Aim: Review letter A, students will identify the words top and bottom
Students will use mother Goose book activity on pg 16
Science
Aim: Students will continue learning about their five senses
Students will focus on the sense of hearing
Read aloud Aliki
Students will work on listening to instructions on finishing the worksheet about drawing things they can see
Social Studies
Aim: Families continued
Read aloud a book about families

September 17,2008

School Closed

September 18, 2008
Religion
Aim: Learn to be thankful for our five senses
Say a prayer thanking god for our five senses
Workbook pg.4 and 7
Math
Aim: Review top, middle, bottom, and identify front and behind
I will make a chart/picture to illustrate how objects or people form front or behind.
Explain the process of forming a line. Show an example of the front of the line and behind the line.
Language Arts
Aim: Discuss the use of each of the five senses
Using the sense of hearing and seeing to able to do an activity on listening to directions
Coloring middle, bottom, top on the hand out
Science
Aim: Use various means to see how the five senses work
Focus on touch and taste, students will feel the difference between a rock and a cotton ball, and they will use their sense of taste during snack to taste popcorn.
Discuss the difference between the rock and cotton ball and their likeness.
Social Studies
Aim: Students will become aware of their community using their senses
I will create a chart/picture/book to show the different things around the community
Discuss with students things they see, smell, hear, taste or touch in their community

September 19, 2008
Religion
Aim: Students will gain knowledge of belonging
Activity book read aloud and class activity on pg 9&13. Drawing activity on pg12
Math
Aim: Review lessons from 9/15- 9/20 introduce large and small
I will have a chart drawing out small to large objects, and then students will have the opportunity to identify the small or large object on the chart.
Handout activity page recognizing small from large
Language Arts
Aim: Review the letter A and the sounds it makes, identify lower and uppercase A
Students will have a hand out practicing to trace the letter A and using their sense of sight to look for the letter and A in the activity sheet and circle the letter A.
Science
Aim: Review the five senses; learn what body parts we use when we use the five senses. Using a chart the students will come up and point to the body part and explain what sense it’s used for.
Social Studies
Aim: Students will gather a collection of objects around the classroom when using the five senses
“Show and tell” the objects they were able to collect around the classroom using the five senses