Week 44

What Children Will Learn this Week

Language / Literacy

  • Eric Carle’s childhood experiences helped him write books for children
    (Day 1)
  • Eric Carle’s creative illustrations help readers understand numbers
    (Day 2)
  • How an author gets ideas for a book
    (Day 3)
  • How to use ideas to write a story and create illustrations
    (Day 4, Day 5)

Mathematics

  • Review of how basic shapes can be different sizes
    (Day 1)
  • Review of how shapes can be used to make a different shape
    (Day 2, Day 3, Day 4, Day 5)

Self-Regulation

Focusing and Remembering

  • Following requests by listening and remembering
    • It’s Raining, It’s Pouring game
      (Day 1)

Paying attention

  • Using our sense of touch to describe an item behind our back
    • What’s Behind My Back? game
      (Day 2)

Social/Emotional

  • Review of different ways we can play
    (Day 3)
  • Review of how to ask someone to play
    (Day 4, Day 5)
  • Review of what we can do when someone does not want to play with us
    (Day 5)

Science

  • How to use four of our five senses to describe soil
    (Day 1)
  • How soil helps plants grow
    (Day 2)
  • How soil is a home for some animals
    (Day 3)

Physical / Health

  • Practicing combinations of different physical movements
    (Day 4, Day 5)