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