Peek At Our Week March 9 - March 13, 2026

                            **Teddy Bear Day/Wednesday March 11th**

                        **Stations of the Cross Thursday March 12th**

                          **Grandparent Day Mass Friday March 13th**

Religion: Seeds:  Unit 3:  Jesus’s New Law is Love.  Lesson Theme:  The children will recognize  the role of water when tasting food.  The children will recognize that God loves every person and wants us to love one another too.  The children will appreciate how Jesus shared with the Samaritan woman.  The children will recognize the importance of holy water in the rite of baptism.

Language/Literacy:  Lesson Overview weeks 19-27:  Week 25:  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 final and medial (Vowel) phonemes in spoken words.  Students will learn to segment a spoken word into two phonemes.  Students will manipulate the initial phoneme in a spoken word with adding and deleting activities.  A new skill will be introduced:  Students will learn to substitute the initial phoneme in a spoken word.  Recognizing rhyming words in the –ed, -at,-un and –ig families.  Focus Letter: Tt

Math:  Recognize repeating patterns, patterns in sound, and patterns in nature.  The concept of one less.  Counting to 10 and ordering objects to 10.  Sorting by size – small, medium and large.  How many  Focus Shape of the month: Shamrock

Teddy Bear Day:    Using our furry friends we will measure and compare the different sizes of the bears.  Graphing and analyzing the data.  Estimation using bear counters.  Recording descriptive  information about our furry friends.  Using language to describe. Making a Venn diagram of the information we learn about bears.

Science:  Skittle melt Rainbow.  Watch the magic rainbow appear.  Skittles are made and coated with sugar, so once you add warm water to a dish surrounded with skittles , the coloring and the coating will begin to dissolve.  The children will place the skittles in different patterns on their plates and observe what happens. 

Afternoon Enrichment 

Monday: "Our World and Beyond":  We will travel to England.  The children will explore the country and culture.  The children will learn that while we speak the same language, there are many items which have different meanings. 

Tuesday:  We will continue to learn about Letter T.  The children will go on a Letter Tt hunt.   How to write the letter and the sound it makes.  The children will play before and after with letters.

Wednesday:  Number exploration 20.  We will look at number 20:  the symbol, the word, tally marks.  Can we 1 on 1 count to 20?  Let’s go on a number hunt around the room.  

Thursday:  “Our Bushel of Books”:  we will read Daisy Maisy Head by Dr. Seuss.  It is the timeless tale of Mayzie McGrew – a girl who suddenly sprouts a daisy from her head.’

Friday:  STEM;  We will learn about BIG Ben, a clock tower in England.   The children will listen to the story Art and Culture:  Big Ben Shapes by Logan Avery.  Big Ben is a fascinating monument in London.  It has many shapes.  We will look for shapes on Big Ben and the children will build their own structures using blocks.  We will also focus on the clock learning what the hands represent.