Video: YouTube Link: Living and Non Living Things
Discussion Question:
- What are living and non living things?
- How can you care for God's gift of all living things?
- How do living things such as animals and plants grow and change?
Vocabulary:
- grow - to become larger by natural development; increase.
- animals - one of a large group of living things that can move around by themselves to find food. Birds, reptiles, fish, amphibians, mammals, insects, snails, and worms are some of the major kinds of animals.
- living things - having life, things that grow and change.
- non-living things - things that do not grow and change.
Sing Song: YouTube Link: Sing "Grow, Grow, Grow"
Activity: Create a collage from pictures of magazines or newspapers you might have at home. Cut and glue things that are living and things that are non living. If you do not have magazines at home you can draw pictures of living and non living things.
Phonics: Children will continue to identify uppercase and lowercase Tt. Children will also identify letter sound /t/.
Sing Song: YouTube Link: Sing: Learn the Letter T
Reading: Children will listen and respond to the story "Peter and the Wolf."
Read Aloud - YouTube Link: Peter and the Wolf
Vocabulary:
- meadow - an open field of grass that is growing wild or is used for pasture or to grow hay.
- forest - a large area of land covered with many trees and other plants.
Discussion Questions:
- Who are the characters in this story?
- Where did the story take place? (accept answers meadow or forest)
- Where did Peter want to go?
- Why didn't the grandfather want him to go there?
- What happened to Peter and his friends?
- How did Peter solve the problem?
- What happened to the wolf at the end of the story?
Activity: Draw a picture of your favorite character and tell why he was an important character in this story.
Sight Words: Read the word of the week "play." Have your child use it in a sentence. If your child is able to independently identify the word "play" you can begin to encourage them dictate and write a simple sentence. For example: I can play with my toy. I like to play with my Mom. We will play with the ball.
Math: Children will act out "take from with result unknown" story problems to solve.
Discussion: Explain to your child that taking away represents what we call subtraction. Have them create their own story about taking away with objects around them.
Vocabulary:
Take away - to subtract one number or value from another.
Activity: Smarttech Link: Subtraction Stories
Activity: Math Workbook Complete pg.s 385- 386 Take Away
Story Time: "What's Alive," by Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld
Homework
Science workbook - Complete pgs. 73-74 Identify what animals need to live and grow.
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