PreK 3

Religion -  Unit 4 - God Made Me: I Can Love

The children will express that God the Father loves them. They will state a desire to love others. They will tell positive ways they can express love.

Social Studies - February is for friends! “What is a friend?” Building and developing social skills to bolster friendships. 

Language/Literacy - Recognizing our  name in print. Recognizing letters in name. Enhancing listening skills with two step directions. Letter review . Letter O is for Obstacle Course (cont’d)

Math - Comparing. Recognizing similarities in objects. Matching objects by single attribute. Basic shapes. Critical thinking skills Focus on Shape of the Month: Heart.

Specials - Media with Mrs. Hoglund. Music with Mr. Showstead

PreK 4

Religion -  Seed Pflaum Weekly Gospel: Jesus is our Teacher. The children will recognize that their choices help make others happy or sad. They will identify the Beatitudes as Jesus’ teaching about finding happiness by trusting God and loving one another. They will recognize that God loves everyone and wants each one of us to be happy. The children will identify how they can share happiness by including others. They will recognize what makes them truly happy.

Social Studies -  Friendship Painting: Shared painting technique. Painting on vertical surfaces - stimulating communication and increasing concentration and expression. 

**We are teaching the importance of fine and gross motor skills to write! This process art activity encourages the children to use their spatial awareness, bilateral coordination, sensory stimulation, eye hand coordination, core strength, and wrist extension. These are all concepts preschoolers need for forming letters and writing.

Science - Candy Heart Science. Working in friendship groups, the children will make predictions and observations about how candy hearts react in various liquids. They will record their results. Preschoolers will be introduced to the concept of change and reaction.

Literacy/Language  Heggerty- Lesson Overview: Weeks 19-27

• Students will recognize and produce words that rhyme
• Students will hear words that begin with the same sound and generate words that begin with a specific sound.
• Students will learn to blend two phonemes into a spoken word
• Students will continue to practice phoneme isolation with the final and medial phonemes in spoken words.
• Students will learn to segment a spoken work into two phonemes.
• Students will manipulate the initial phoneme in a spoken work with adding and deleting activities
• A new skill will be introduced: Students will learn to substitute the initial phoneme in spoken word.

Math - Number & Operations: Compare sets of up to five. Graphic organizer: use of a 10 frame to organize objects. and develop visual images for each number.  Problem solving with sets up to five. Differentiating between letters & numbers. Practice naming and writing numbers 1-10. Shape Focus of the Month: Heart

Music - Mr. Showstead

Preschool+Plus

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