PreK 3

Religion -  “I Can Feel”. The children will identify different feelings. They will know that Jesus had feelings. The children will desire to cause good feelings in others.

Language/Literacy - Expressive language: using language to communicate with our friends. Letters in our name.  Letter Focus of the Week: Ss.  Home/school connection: bring in an item from home that begins with ‘s’.

Math - Identifying shapes. Counting to 10. Finding a pair: making matches. Color Scavenger Hunt. Shape Focus: Shamrock.

Science - “How do plants grow?” We look forward to Sweetie Pie & French Fry teaching us about parts of a sprouting plant, help us identify some things a plant needs to grow, give the children opportunities to make observations about a growing plant, and more!

Specials  with Mr. Showstead and Mrs. Hoglun

PreK 4

Religion - Pflaum Seeds Gospel Weeklies: Jesus is God’s Son. The children will realize they belong at Mass. They will recognize that Jesus is God’s Son and be able to describe prayer as talking with God. The children will identify personal prayer times and places and make a prayer booklet.  

Special Lesson: St. Joseph Day. Saint Joseph, patron saint of our parish. Preschoolers will understand that Joseph is the father of Jesus on earth. They will learn that Joseph was a worker, a carpenter, and a faithful servant of God. March 19th is St. Joseph Day. Please have your preschooler wear the color red, which is the color that signifies St. Joseph, on Tuesday,, March 19.

Social Studies - Scholastic My BIG World with Clifford: March Into Spring! Science Focus: spring weather. Theme Vocab: spring, puddles, twirl, swirl, stormy, thunder, sunny, rainbow. Skills: group discussion, critical thinking, vocab, syllables. 

Science -  Color Mixing/Color Wheel. What happens when we mix the colors red, blue, and yellow? Literature-based science experiment (Mouse Paint by Ellen Stoll Walsh) that will give children opportunities to explore mixing colors in a fun hands-on activity. Vocabulary: primary  and secondary colors. Primary colors are the 3 pigment colors that cannot be mixed or formed by other colors. Secondary colors are created by mixing 2 primary colors.

Literacy/Language - Alphabet knowledge: produce letter sound, recognize letter names. Print awareness. Oral language. Writing: independently using upper/lowercase letters to make words. 

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.

Letter Focus of the Week: Ss.- Home/school connection: bring in an item from home that begins with ‘s’.

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. 

Art in the Box  Art-in-a-box is a program where volunteers come in and teach a lesson about a particular artist or author/illustrator, and then lead a hands-on project based on that artist’s work. These lessons are tailored specifically for preschoolers, and give parents a special opportunity to help out in our classroom!  We look forward to sharing this special St. Joseph Little Knights unit with our preschoolers presented by Dan Bench (Danny’s Dad) and Krista Wall (Mason’s Mom)! Thank you so much.  This month’s author: Laura Numeroff.

Specials -  Media with Mrs. Hoglund. Music

Preschool+Plus

World Travelers visit Ireland - Dia dhuit! Preschoolers will be introduced to the Republic of Ireland. Language: The children will practice saying everyday words and phrases, and counting to 10 in Gaelic. Landscape: Preschoolers will learn about Ireland’s weather and landscape, and the origin of its nickname, “the Emerald Isle”. Literature: The children will enjoy listening to a tale from Irish folklore. Irish Traditions: Irish dancing. Preschoolers will be introduced to (and attempt!) lively Irish dances. Celtic Designs: The children will create their own 4-cornered Celtic knot design and learn the meaning of this traditional symbol. 

Media with Mrs. Hoglund - Mrs. Hoglund will share some fun facts about Ireland with our World Travelers.