Peek At Our Week October 5 - October 9, 2026

Religion: Pflaum Gospel Weeklies:  Seeds. Unit Theme:  We are the Church.  Lesson Theme:  Jesus wants us to grow.  Objectives:  The children will recognize how they change and grow.  The children will recognize that Jesus’ story about a vineyard is a story about God’s love for us and that  God made everything that exists.  The children will recognize that God delights in their life and growth and takes care of them always.  **We will be attending Mass on Tuesday with our 4th Grade Prayer Buddies**

Language/Literacy:  Heggerty Phonics Awareness:Lesson Overview:  weeks 7-12:  Students will hear and repeat rhyming word pairs, and begin to recognize rhyming words and non rhyming words.  Students will isolate the initial sound in spoken words.  Students will learn to blend two syllables into a spoken word.  Students will learn to isolate the final phoneme in a spoken word.  Students will learn to segment a spoken word into two syllables.  Students are introduced to manipulating parts of a word when two new skills, Adding and Deleting syllables are introduced in week 7.  Alphabet Knowledge:  differentiate uppercase and lowercase letters, recognize and name letters.   Oral Language:  use language in discussion, use complete sentences of four or more words, label and categorize words, understand meaning of new words.  Motivation to read:  engage in pre-reading and reading related activities.   Focus letter of the week:  Ff.  Home/School Connection:  Bring an Ff item from home to share with the class).

Math: Number and Operations:  count up to 10 items, understand that order of counting does not change the number, use concrete models and make word problems for adding up to 5 objects. 

Science:  Fire Safety Week.  We will discuss fire safety and what preschoolers can do to stay safe. We will explore the differences between hot and cold.  Preschoolers will sort items by hot and cold.  We will have a visit from the Libertyville Fire Department to talk to the boys and girls about fire safety.

Social Studies: F is for Friends and Friendship. Friendships inside and outside our classroom community.  Teaching tolerance, kindness, acceptance. Strictly No Elephants By: Lisa Mantchev will be read.  The children will make a “Friendship Soup”. Our class soup will include kindness, generosity, loving, sharing and helpfulness to name a few!

Afternoon Enrichment:

Monday:  “Our World and Beyond”:  We will travel to the state of Colorado today.  The children will take a video tour of the state and learn fun facts.  

Tuesday:   The children will continue their study of the letter Ff.  They will search and identify the letter Ff around the room.   We will think of as many F words, while stressing the two different sounds this letter can make.

Wednesday:  The children will continue their number exploration with number .  They will identify the number with tally marks, the symbol and the written word.  The children will have to find five of the same item in the room and using 1:1 correspondence.

 Thursday:  “Bushel of Books”:  We will read Harold and the Purple Crayon By:  Crockett Johnson.  Concepts of Print:  beginning of the story, end of the story.  The children will retell the story and sequence events.   The children will use their fine motor skills to lace a cutout of the moon using purple yarn.

Friday:  STEAM  This week is fire safety week.  The children will differentiate between hot and cold and do a sorting activity.  The children will identify what to do in case of a fire..  We will make some fire slime, and each child will be given their own small amount to explore and play with. The Libertyville Fire Department will come visit us.  The children will observe the equipment the firemen need to wear and review all fire safety rules.