December 2-6

Monday:

Reading

• Reviewed our letters and letters sounds - Sang our Better Alphabet Song

• Phonological Awareness Warmups

• Completed a letter Kk worksheet 

• Completed a secret word worksheet

• Reviewed our sight word

• Introduced to 3 new sight words: he, she, & little

• Read through our new emergent reader, Gingerbread Man

• Compared and contrasted two stories with the same name The Gingerbread Man but different authors

• Gingerbread Science Experiment: What happens when a gingerbread man gets wet?

 

 

Math

• Calendar Binder

• Number Talk

• Created a graph of the first bite of a gingerbread man - analyzed the data

 

Religion:

• Prayed a decade of the rosary

• Opened our first Advent Book, The Story of Baby Jesus

• The Day of Advent with Brother Francis - the Power of Prayer

 

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Tuesday:

Reading:

• Reviewed our letters and letters sounds - Sang our Better Alphabet Song

• Phonological Awareness Warmups

• Completed a letter Uu worksheet 

• Listened to the story Snipp, Snapp, Snare and the Gingerbread

• Made gingerbread in a cup

Measured the ingredients (3 tbsp mix and 1 tbsp water) and mixed it together

Used different adjectives to describe what we see, smell, feel, and taste

• Listened to the story Alpert and reviewed the setting of the story

• Drew a picture of a gingerbread person

• Wrote describing words about our gingerbread person based on our senses

 

Math:

• Calendar Binder

• Number Talk

 

Religion:

• Listened to our Advent Book, No Room at the Inn

• The Day of Advent with Brother Francis - Trees

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Wednesday:

Reading:

• Reviewed our letters and letters sounds - Sang our Better Alphabet Song

• Phonological Awareness Warmups

• Completed a letter Gg worksheet 

• Made “gingerbread” ornaments out of applesauce and cinnamon

• Played with play-doh - rolling the dough and cutting out cookies

• Listened to the story The Gingerbread Boy - Identifying the different characters, setting, problem and solution of the story.  Then completed a story elements worksheet.  

• Continued working on our writing from yesterday.  We took two of the describing words about our gingerbread person and turned them into sentences.  

 

Math:

• Calendar Binder

• Number Talk

 

Religion:

• Listened to our Advent Book, The Crippled Lamb

• The Day of Advent with Brother Francis - Purple

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Thursday:

​Reading:

• Reviewed our letters and letters sounds - Sang our Better Alphabet Song

• Phonological Awareness Warmups

• Completed a letter Ww worksheet 

• CVC Christmas Tree short a word worksheet

• Listened to the story Lily Learns About Wants and Needs

• Introduced to Wants and Needs -Defined the words and Found Examples

• Completed a wants and needs sorting worksheet

 

Math:

• Calendar Binder

• Number Talk

• Colored gingerbread patterns

• Cut out, assembled, and colored a puzzle counting by tens

• Solved number story problems by acting them out and drawing pictures

 

Religion:

• Listened to our Advent Book, The Legend of St. Nicholas

• The Day of Advent with Brother Francis - Called

• Listened to the story, The Story of Saint Nicholas

• Colored St Nicholas in our saint book

• Watched movie St Nicholas: The Boy Who Became Santa

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Friday:

• Advent Retreat at Church