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

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

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