PreK 3

Religion -  Unit 5 - God Made Me Special: I Can Pretend  - Chapter 24. The children will play, pretend, and answer questions to exercise their imaginations. They will thank God the Father for their ability to pretend.

Social Studies - Facilitating relationships with others: recognizing others emotions.

Language/Literacy - Matching uppercase letters.  Letters in our name. Engaging in conversation with friends.  “What’s Happening?” The children will share ideas and experiences. They will develop spoken vocabulary, and initiate and respond to discussions.

Math - Matching/naming colors. Identifying/sorting basic shapes. Shape Focus of the Month: Shamrock.  They will play Color/Shape Bingo, and identify an object by using 2 attributes, both color and shape.    

Specials - Music with Mr. Showstead

PreK 4

Religion - Pflaum Gospel Weeklies Jesus is risen! The children will celebrate life and consider death as a part of life. They will appreciate that Jesus’ Resurrection promises new life for us. And recognize that Easter is the Church’s biggest celebration. The children will find signs of new life of spring around them.

Prayer Buddy Get Together

Literacy Language - Alphabet knowledge: produce letter sound, recognize letter names. Print awareness. Oral language. Writing: independently using upper/lowercase letters to make words. Letter Focus of the Week: Letter Tt.. Bring an item to school that begins with T.

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: Count up to 10 and demonstrate that items can be chosen in any order, make/take apart 8 and 9. Making/breaking smaller sets of 8 and 9..Number & Operations: counting up to 10 items, last number counting represents how many in a set. Recognizing, counting, sequencing numbers 1 - 20. Ordering by size. Learning geometric shapes, shape attributes. Patterns: making and creating patterns AB, AAB, ABB, ABC.  

Social Studies - Scholastic - My BIG World with Clifford. “Do You Hear the Weather?” Pitter- patter, pitter-patter. Drip, drip, drop. Listen to the rain fall. Splish, splash, plop! Science Focus: weather. Theme Vocabulary Words: cumulus, cirrus, stratus. Movement: gross motor skills. Social and Emotional Learning: responsible decision making.

Science - Weather Watchers. Let’s learn how different kinds of weather are created as we simulate various weather conditions in our classroom. Children will develop powers of observation and investigation as we explore rainbows, wind, rain, tornadoes, lightning, and wind.  Seasons: Winter, Spring, Summer, Fall.

STEAM - “How many raindrops can your cloud hold?” As the cloud fills up and gets heavier, the rain falls down! Preschoolers will count and make comparisons of how many raindrops their cloud held. They will create their own process art-inspired raindrop!

Specials - Media with Mrs. Hoglund  

Preschool+Plus

Out of this World Travelers! - “To infinity and beyond!” Preschoolers will have an out-of-this-world, month long study of Outer Space!  This intergalactic unit will introduce the children to concepts and features of space, including aspects of an astronauts job!  They will begin awareness of the Earth, Sun, and Planets, and learn facts that are unique to each. Preschoolers will be introduced to new vocabulary such as rotation, orbit, and axis. This week’s focus has us learning about the Moon!  Rocket Ship STEM: The children will understand the force needed for us to blast off to the Moon.

Buddy Mass