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PreK 3

Religion - Unit 3: God Made Me Happy - “I Can Celebrate”. We celebrate good things from God. The celebration in this unit will prepare children for liturgical celebrations and also give them an appreciation of an aspect of creation: the color green, which stands for life.

Social Studies - Winter and Us! How do things change in the winter season? What clothes do we need for winter? Preschoolers will brainstorm cold weather activities, and identify their favorite.  

Math - Spatial awareness: recognizing spatial relationships among people and objects. Winter sort/graph: mittens or gloves.

Language/Literacy - Building letter knowledge through review of letters Aa - Ll. Raising letter print awareness through games and activities both in large/small group. Letter Focus of the Week: Mm.

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

PreK 4

Religion - Special Lesson: God Made Me Unique. Children will realize that God creates each of us special. They will appreciate all our wonderful characteristics that make each of us different. They will praise God for the special characteristics that make them wonderful and unique. 

Seeds Unit 2:  Lesson Theme:  Jesus is the Son of God and son of Mary.  Objectives:  the children will recognize that the reason we celebrate Christmas is Jesus.  They will share their Christmas memories.  The children will learn the story of Jesus’ birth, recognize the Epiphany story and identify Mary as the mother of Jesus and our Mother too.

Bubby Mass: Mass with our Prayer Buddies on Tuesday, January 6th

Literacy/Language - Heggerty Lesson Overview: Weeks 13-18. Preschoolers will:

• Recognize rhyming words from non-rhyming words.

• Isolate the initial sound in spoken words.

• Learn to blend two party into a spoken word

• Learn to isolate the medial sound in a spoken word.

• Learn to segment a spoken word into two parts, onset and rime.

• Manipulate the initial phoneme in a spoken word by adding and deleting the first sound.
• Answer questions about a book. Retell a story. Narrate a story. Sequencing steps to build a snowman. Identify similar/different beginning sounds. Sequence 4 step. Letter Focus of the Week: Mm.

Math - Geometry: Name and describe attributes of common solid shapes: cone, cube, sphere. Identify and combine solid shapes to create new ones. Create common three-dimensional shapes. Demonstrate that the order of counting sequence is always the same. Extending patterns. Graphing 2-D flat shapes. Sorting by size. 

Social Studies - Scholastic My BIG World: A Long Winter’s Nap! Science Focus: hibernation. Theme Vocab: winter, dormice, hibernate, hedgehog, snoozing, dozing, tortoise, slumbering, toad, resting, dreaming. Skills: group discussion, read-aloud comprehension, concepts of print, critical thinking, vocab, number recognition.

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

Preschool+Plus

Book Club - “The Mitten” vs. “The Hat”, by author Jan Brett. Preschoolers will be involved in comparing/contrasting these two winter selections. They will use graphic organizers to compare characters of each book. The children will sequence characters and events to help them retell the story.