This week we are taking a trip to Africa and going on a safari! (I wish we were really going and not just pretending!) Animal themes always seem to capture my kids attention so I am looking forward to having fun with them. This is what we’ll be doing in keeping on with our theme of the week (you can find a list of our weekly theme and focuses in the freebies section).

	M	T	W	Th	F
Religion	Read Jesus is coming	Jesus is coming coloring page	Make the wordless book out of construction paper	Paint your fingernails the colors of the wordless book	Eat M&Ms or skittles in the colors of the book while reading
Language (2)	Review H-L flashcards & do H is for Hippo craft	Letter stomp**	Color the worksheet and add yellow yarn to the mane	Animal beginning sound	Goodnight gorilla letter hunt
Language (4)	Introduce WHERE & build So with playdo + practice reading	Sight Word stomp**	Singular/plural worksheet from this pack & review sight words	Punctuation worksheet from this pack & review sight words	Write the room & also write this weeks sight words
Math (2)	Animal counting mats (we’ll do 6-10 out of order)	Zoo color by code	Africa number puzzle	Counting bears – count 5 piles of bears 6-10 respectively, then sort by color	Count the flamingos from this pack
Math (4)	Count the number in each row and answer chart questions from this pack – I will also intro the concept of double by asking which row is double the penguin. Then I will show her the 3×2 equation for it	Which are the same? – this is something I threw together for teaching purposes.. I do not have rights to the images	How many cheetah spots? – Laminate and use dry erase marker to draw spots on the cheetahs to solve the equations.	I will use this worksheet to practice the concept of doubling. I will ask her what double or x2 of each would be. I will change the numbers for the giraffes & monkeys to contain 8 & 10 respectively.	Does + = x
Art/Sensory	Draw a landscape (trees, leaves, grass, water etc..) then use safari animal stamps to add animals to the scene	Mammal scents**	Make binoculars	Safari sensory bin – Rocks, blue glass beads, green easter grass or rice, pinto beans, animal figurines,	Take a trip to the zoo and bring your binoculars & checklist!
Science Geography History	Africa	Learn about some African instruments	Explore Africa	Animal skin matching	Read some of the plaques/info boards at the zoo