Monday, March 30, 2009

Lesson Plan 3/30 thru 4/3

Religion
Monday
Aim: Demonstrate ways they are growing by helping others as friends of Jesus
Read aloud “The good Samaritan”
Tuesday
Aim: How do we communicate with god?
Discovering God’s world pg. 105
Wednesday
Aim: Talking to god, learn prayers because through prayer we communicate with god.
Discovering God’s world pg.106
Thursday
Aim: Learn about god’s plan all living things grow and change, signs of spring
Read aloud “all things bright and beautiful”
Friday
Aim: Helping children to know and love Jesus as the foundation of his developing life of faith
Read aloud a passage from the bible

Math
Monday
Aim: Creating sets of objects, recognizing numbers, tracing numbers
Tuesday
Aim: Continue creating sets of objects, recognizing and tracing numbers
Wednesday
Aim: Counting, recognizing numbers, and building vocabulary
Thursday
Aim: Continue recognizing numbers and building vocabulary
Friday
Aim: Review creating sets of objects, counting and recognizing numbers

Language Arts
Monday
Aim: Recognition of beginning sounds and their symbols
Tuesday
Aim: Recognizing of beginning sounds cont’d
Wednesday
Aim: Say the name of each picture, write the beginning sound
Thursday
Aim: Continuing saying the name of pictures and write the beginning sound
Friday
Aim: Draw a line from each picture to its beginning sound

Science
Monday
Aim: Properties of earth: rocks, soil, water, and air.
Tuesday
Aim: What is in soil and sand?
Wednesday
Aim: What covers earth?
Thursday
Aim: where is water found on earth?
Friday
Aim: Review properties of earth; rock, soil, sand, water, and air

Social Studies
Monday thru Friday
Aim: Learn about world leaders
Pope John Paul II

Monday, March 23, 2009

Homework 3/23 thru 3/27

  • Count how many and write the number, write what number is missing
  • Draw a line between the upper and lowercase letters that belong together
  • Trace the V's and v's , write the V's and v's, add v's then read the words then draw and write your own Vv word.
  • Find a pattern, draw what is missing in the pattern.

Sunday, March 22, 2009

Lesson Plan 3/23 thru 3/27

Religion
Monday
Aim: To help children appreciate that the stories we read in the bible tell us about Jesus Christ, the son of God.
Discovering God’s world pg.95
Tuesday
Aim: To provide early learning experiences for the children’s appreciation of the bible
Discovering God’s world pg.96
Wednesday
Aim: Discover that god gives us families that love and care for us.
Thank god for our families
Thursday
Aim: Identify the different things they see in church
Thank god for beautiful churches
Friday
Aim: Discover that a part of growing up is learning to help others as god wants them to

Math
Monday
Aim: Observing and continuing patterns; visual memory
Tuesday
Aim: Look at the pattern and finish the shape pattern.
Wednesday
Aim: Counting
Count the objects in each group, and then write the number that shows how many
Thursday
Aim: Counting cont’d
Count and circle to show the number at the beginning of each row
Friday
Aim: Continue counting
Count from 1 to 20, write the missing numbers

Language Arts
Monday
Aim: Auditory and visual discrimination; recognizing beginning sounds and their symbols.
Tuesday
Aim: Say the name of each picture; listen to the first sound, then circle the letters with that sound.
Wednesday
Aim: Draw a line to match the things that begin with the same sound.
Thursday
Aim: Cross out the things that do not begin with the P sound.
Friday
Aim: Circle the thing in each row that begins with the same sound as the first one.

Science
Monday
Aim: Understanding where food comes from
Match the pieces together to show where that food came from
Tuesday
Aim: understanding where food comes cont’d
Draw a line to match food with its origin
Wednesday
Aim: Explain that grains are types of grasses that grow in different parts of the world
Thursday
Aim: Describe how plants and animals give humans food, shelter, clothing and medicine.
Friday
Aim: Identify how humans get the food they eat. For example hunting, gathering, purchasing, farming etc. Does it depend on the environment they live in which affects the way humans obtain their food?

Social Studies
Monday thru Friday
Aim: Students will listen and observe the lives of children in other places
Read aloud Dandelion, retell the story, and compare them to the types of houses children live in today.
Discuss other books read about the differences in older times and the way people live now.

Sunday, March 15, 2009

Lesson Plan 3/16-3/20

Religion
Monday
Aim: Students will be learning about the concept of saints, read aloud Our Lady Queen of saints’ pg. 11
Tuesday
Aim: Continue learning about saints, read aloud St. Patrick pg.24
Wednesday
Aim: Saints cont’d read aloud St. Christopher
Thursday
Aim: Learn more of the bible stories, read aloud “Baby Moses” pg.43
Friday
Aim: Continue learning bible stories, read aloud “The Child Samuel” pg. 84

Math
Monday
Aim: Emphasize mathematics, reintroduce patterns, ask the student what they can recall about patterns.
Tuesday
Aim: Continue patterns, students’ objective is to describe and predict color patterns
Wednesday
Aim: identify, extend, describe and predict shape patterns.
Thursday
Aim: Identify, extend, describe and predict number patterns.
Friday
Aim: Students will learn to make color patterns and shape patterns on their own.

Language Arts
Monday
Aim: Phonemic Awareness, rhyming words. Introduce the letter of the week Uu
Tuesday
Aim: Read aloud, students will explain picture illustrations from the read aloud, begin to practice tracing Uu.
Wednesday
Aim: Mother Goose book read aloud directions, have the students repeat the directions before we begin the activity, this will show their comprehension skills.
Thursday
Aim: Students will think about words that begin with Uu begin writing words that begin with Uu, learn to recognize its sound and upper from lowercase.
Friday
Aim: Review our letter of the week Uu, read aloud a book about Uu, discuss “What was this story about?”

Science
Monday
Aim: Students will learn patterns of behavior related to environment
Tuesday
Aim: Learn that animals behave accordingly to their environment, if this state of environment is altered, what does this mean for the animals who habitat there?
Wednesday
Aim: Observe how animals behave when they are removed from their normal habitat, do they adjust?
Thursday
Aim: Students will describe the difference in animals when the environment is different.
Friday
Aim: Review animals and their environment


Social Studies
Monday
Aim: learn about ten symbols of St. Patrick’s Day
Tuesday
Aim: St. Patrick’s Day, learn why we celebrate this day
Wednesday
Aim: Read aloud a poem for St. Patrick’s day, what did the poem refer to?
Thursday
Aim: Read aloud a book relating to the theme of St. Patrick’s day
Friday
Aim: Finish theme on St Patrick’s day, discuss what we’ve learned, questions and answers

Monday, March 2, 2009

Lesson Plan 3/2 thru 3/6

Religion
Monday
Aim: Students will be learning about stories in the bible, they will learn about Noah’s ark followed by an activity coloring page.
Tuesday
Aim: Students will be learning about The Rainbow… God’s Promise (Genesis 9: 13,15)
Wednesday
Aim: Students will be learning about Blessing from god, look at the many blessings god has given us.
Thursday
Aim: Students will be learning about different saints
Friday
Aim: Saints continued

Math
Monday
Aim: Students will begin to use and understand the terms first and last
Progress in mathematics workbook
Tuesday
Aim: Continue to use and understand the terms first and last
Progress in mathematics workbook
Wednesday
Aim: Review using and understanding the terms first and last
Workbook
Thursday
Aim: Students will be using their counting skills to formulate problems and solutions, for e.g. counting the number if students in the class
Friday
Aim: Continue using counting skills and learn to develop skills to formulate problems and solutions in everyday situations

Language Arts
Monday
Aim: Students will be learning new vocabulary based on the books read aloud, introduce the letter of the week Tt
Tuesday
Aim: Phonemic Awareness with rhyming words, begin to practice tracing the letter Tt, and recognize its shape
Wednesday
Aim: Comprehension; students will identify and discuss a character in our read aloud story
Thursday
Aim: Continue comprehension, vocabulary and phonemic awareness based on the book read aloud, practice writing the letter of the week Tt
Friday
Aim: Students will review the letter Tt, recognize and print words that begin with the letter Tt

Science
Monday thru Friday
Students will be learning about organisms and their environment; food chains and web, based on a system, order, and organization
Students will learn what organisms are, learn about their environment and learn what the terms food chain and web are, they will learn how this is a system, order, and organization based on the scientific evidence.

Social Studies
Monday
Aim: Students will be discovering the essentials of learning life skills, learn what it means to have life skills
Tuesday
Aim: Life skills and the responsibilities of taking care of a pet
Wednesday
Aim: Students continue learning about life skills and how as you grow up you begin to learn about housekeeping chores done indoors.
Thursday
Aim: Life skills cont’d housekeeping chores done outside of the home for e.g. running an errand
Friday
Aim: Students will review the life skills learned and what they already are responsible to know or do at home.