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.)

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

• 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

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