PreK 3

Religion -  Unit 5 - God Made Me Special: I Can Wish.  The children know that they have the power to wish. They will realize that God wishes them well. The children will express good wishes. 

**Grandparents Mass will be held on Friday March 13th. All preschoolers are invited to attend with their grandparents. Please refer to previous emails regarding this special mass.

Social Studies - Facilitating relationships with others: recognizing others emotions. Sharing. Using words to express feelings during play situations. 

Language/Literacy - Matching uppercase letters.  Letters in our name. Engaging in conversation with friends. Using kind words to communicate with friends. Focus on Letter of the Week: Rr.  

Math - Matching/naming colors. Identifying/sorting basic shapes. Rainbow Color Matching. Using a graphic organizer to sort colored items. 

Science - R is for Rainbow  Preschoolers will use colors from the rainbow to streak unflavored gelatin. They will practice filling pipettes that they will use to squeeze colorful streaks of color through the gelatin. They will enjoy making color-mixing observations, and tactile explorations with this wiggly substance.  

PreK 4

Religion -  Pflaum Seeds Gospel Weeklies: Jesus brings Good News to everyone. The children will recognize the role of water when tasting food.They will recognize that God loves every person and wants us to love them too.they will appreciate how Jesus shared with the Samaritan woman, and recognize the importance of holy water in the rite of Baptism. The children will recognize that we need Jesus, just as we need water to live.  

**Stations of the Cross Thursday 12:30 pm - Preschoolers will attend

**Grandparents Mass will be held on Friday March 13th. All preschoolers are invited to attend with their grandparents. Please refer to previous emails regarding this special mass.

STEM - Kaleidoscope Magic

Science - Skittles Liquid Rainbow Science:  Preschoolers will learn about dissolving, absorption, and how colors mix. The children will be involved in making predictions, observing reactions, recording  results, and making conclusions. They will discuss how their results may be different than another’s and the reason why. 

Literacy/Language  -  Alphabet knowledge: name and match upper/lowercase letters. Alphabet knowledge: produce letter sound, recognize letter names. Print awareness. Oral language: Seussical rhymes and inventions. Writing: independently using upper/lowercase letters to make words. Letter Focus of the Week Rr.

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.

Read the Rainbow Challenge: Each day preschoolers will be introduced to books about colors of the rainbow!

Math -  Using non-standard units to measure,  sorting, graphing. Patterning: recognizing and creating color patterns, sound patterns. Number recognition 0-10. One to one correspondence. Writing numbers 1-10. 

Rainbow Snack  Preschoolers will follow directions and sequence the steps needed to create- their delicious Rainbow Fruit Kabobs. Some fruit will remain “whole” so that the children can explore the colors and textures of the outsides. They will understand that eating these colorful fruits promotes good health! Children may be introduced to some new fruits.  Preschoolers will learn about food preparation, and care to take to keep it safe and healthy.

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

Preschool+Plus

Storytime STEM  - “The Three Little Pigs”: fairy tales. Integrating STEM into our storytime, increases opportunities for literacy development. It makes an abstract concept more relatable by making connections with real world experiences. Preschoolers will be introduced to our story and brainstorm various materials they can use to build their own house. They will design and engineer a home for their own Little Pig. Preschoolers will make predictions and test each structure’s strength with Huffing & Puffing! Preschoolers will analyze results, and summarize what materials and design led to a building’s strength. Science focus words: material, strength, structure. Math: identifying shapes