Peek at Our Week March 2 - March 6, 2026
Preschool 3’s
Religion - God Made Me Active: I Can Make Things. The children will explain that God the Father made everything. They will show satisfaction for making things.
Social Studies - Read Across America! Preschoolers will be introduced to children' s author, Theodore Giesel, and be introduced to several of his stories. Expanding awareness of the world around us. Help develop an understanding and make connections between the author and his life.
Language/Literacy - Read Across America Day. Enjoy listening to and discussing storybooks. Print awareness during read alongs. Using books to engage in pre-reading behaviors. Sequencing letters in our name. .
Math - Graphing: Using a graphic organizer to answer questions and sort by multiple attributes: shape, color, size. Matching. Counting.
Science - “Green Eggs”. The children will be involved in using their senses to gather information, investigate materials, and observe the process of our Fizzy Green Eggs Experiment. The children will be introduced to tools a scientist uses such as safety goggles and pipettes.
Specials - Music with Mr. Showstead, Media with Mrs. Hoglund
PreK 4
Religion - Pflaum Gospel Weeklies: Good people do good actions. The children will recognize that every person is special. They will recognize that their actions are like a tree’s fruit, and learn a prayer to the Holy Spirit.
Social Studies - Read Across America! The children will be introduced to a collection of books written by Dr. Seuss. They will learn that his motivation to write was to help young children learn how to read. Listen with understanding to stories. Forge a deeper connection to books.
Science - Oobleck: Sink or Float? The children will be involved in preparing the Oobleck: measuring ingredients, listening and following directions. They will make predictions and test the surface tension of the Oobleck by placing various items in the substance. “Will it sink or will it float?”
Literacy/Language - Dr. Seuss-abration. Alphabet knowledge: produce letter sound, recognize letter names. Print awareness. Oral language: Seussical rhymes and inventions. Writing: independently using upper/lowercase letters to make words.
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 - Measuring with non-standard units. Patterns: recognize and create patterns. Create and extend patterns: sound, color. Number & Operations: use concrete models or make verbal word problems for subtracting objects from a set. Number recognition 1-15. Writing numbers.
STEAM - Cat in the Hat Building Challenge: Build a Seuss-inspired hat using cups and paper. The children will engage in designing, building, measuring, and reflecting.
Specials - Music with Mr. Showstead, Media with Mrs. Hoglund
Process Drama Class with Mrs. Hansel: Seuss-a-Palooza
Preschoolers will recognize the 3 actor’s tools that they have with them every day!
They will engage in active listening to move through large group warm-ups. The children will follow step by step directions while using their bodies and voices to
collaboratively tell a story. They will demonstrate physical control and active listening skills through a number of Seuss challenges.The children will engage their imaginations in creating their own class story!
Preschool+Plus
Read Across America Celebration continues!
“Hop on Pop” - Popcorn science: Preschoolers will begin to develop an understanding of matter. They will learn that a physical change is one that affects an object’s size or shape. The children will observe the physical change that occurs when heat is added to popcorn, air is added to a balloon, and cold is added to water. They will use their 5 senses to examine and describe popped corn. Popcorn math: Preschoolers will begin to understand that volume is the amount of space occupied by an object. They will make comparisons between the volume of unpopped vs. popped corn. Popcorn literacy: The children will identify matching lower/uppercase letters. Hop Til You Stop - Preschoolers will “hop” out rhymes to their given word. They will develop an understanding of real and nonsense words.
Seuss-ical Landscapes - Art integration: Preschoolers will describe the fantasy look of the places found in Dr. Seuss books. They will use materials to create their own 3-D scuptures to resemble this magical style. The children will be involved in folding, crimping, twisting, curling, rolling, stacking, gluing… They will add characters to their landscapes and enjoy telling their own stories to develop oral language skills and foster creative thinking.
