PreK 3

Religion - God Made Me: I Can Love. The children will express that God the Father loves them. They will state a desire to love others. The children will tell ways to express love.

Social Studies - Our classroom family. “How can we show love to our friends at school?” Role playing situations. Categorizing those that show love and those that do not.

Language/Literacy - Rhymes: building phonological awareness. Letter knowledge: matching letters. Identifying letters in our name. Focused Letter Study: Yy. Home/School connection: bring an item from home that begins with ‘Y’.

Math - Comparing objects: similarities & differences. Matching to build one to one correspondence. Counting to 10. Identifying/naming numbers 1-10. Numbers 1-5, 1-10 with Wormy!

PreK 4

Religion -  The Holy Spirit brings us peace.  The children will recognize that they are members of a church family. They will identify the Holy Spirit as our helper and learn a short prayer to the Holy Spirit. The children will recognize that the Holy Spirit lives in all of us and complete an end of year medallion.

Social Studies - Scholastic My BIG World with Clifford: “The Real Hungry Caterpillar” Learning Objective: Children will discover different things caterpillars can do. Science Focus: caterpillars Page 4 skill: counting Vocabulary: caterpillar, blend in, prickly, silk, metamorphosis Skills We’re Practicing: readaloud comprehension, group discussion, concepts of print, rhyming, critical thinking, vocabulary, 

Science - “How does a butterfly grow?” Life cycle of a butterfly. Children will “fly” through a series of activities to help them build knowledge about these amazing creatures!. They will explore stages of metamorphosis of these fragile animals first hand.They will be introduced to new vocabulary such as metamorphosis, chrysalis, and symmetry, insect.

Literacy/Language Alphabet knowledge: naming letter sounds.Motivation to read: engage in pre-reading and reading-related activities, use books and other written materials  Oral language: use language in discussion, respond appropriately, categorize words, demonstrate meaning of words.Comprehension: answer questions about a book. 

Heggerty Lessons 28-35. Students will:

• produce words that rhyme.

• isolate the initial sound in spoken words

• continue to practice phoneme isolation with final and medial (vowel) phonemes in spoken words

• learn to blend 3 phonemes into a spoken word

• learn to segment a spoken work into 3 phonemes

• manipulate the initial phoneme in a spoken word with adding, deleting, and substituting

Focused Letter Study: Yy. Home/school connection: bring an item from home that begins with ‘Y’.

Math  - Geometry: comparing/moving shapes, name common shapes, create a picture graph. Numbers & Operations: counting to 20, making 10, writing our numbers, comparing numbers.

Preschool+Plus - 

World Travelers - Summer at the Beach!! Ahoy, Maties! Get ready to hit the high seas for adventure during our May month-long study of all things OCEAN!  Our seafarers will be introduced  to concepts and features of the beach and ocean, including properties of salt water. Preschoolers will be introduced to new vocabulary such as fluke, anemone, and tide. They will  identify and classify sea animals. We will integrate skills such as addition, by playing the fun game, “Get on My Boat”! 

SHARK! Preschoolers will be introduced to these unique animals, classified as fish! They will be introduced to several types of sharks such as lemon shark, hammerhead and great white shark, and gain an understanding of their behavior!

Scholastic My BIG World: Learning Objective: Children will identify and discuss animals that live in the sea. Science Focus: ocean animals Page 4 skill: counting/number recognition Theme Vocabulary: dolphin, octopus, shark, whale, sea star, crab, clownfish Skills We’re Practicing: readaloud comprehension, group discussion, concepts of print, rhyming, critical thinking, vocabulary, counting/number recognition.