Preschool 3’s

Religion - Unit 1 God Made Me: I Can See. The children will talk about their gift of sight. They will take a walk and see all that God has made. They will learn that God gave them eyes to see and thank Him for this gift of sight. The children will listen to the story of the lost coin.

Language/Literacy - Listening and attending to language during songs, stories, learning experiences.  Recognizing/understanding that letters in print represent our names. Focus on Letter of the Week: Bb. Home/school connection - bring ‘B’ object from home.

Social Studies - Me Bags: learning about our friends at school. Identify characteristics of a friend. Display good friendship skills through play.

Science - All About Me: My Five Senses. “What do you see?” Environmental walk. Using our sense of sight to explore the world around us.

Math - Making connections to verbal numbers and numbers in print. Exploring colors in our environment. Focus on Color of the Month: Blue. 

Music - with Mr. Showstead  Media - Mrs. Hoglund

Pre-K 4

Religion - Unit 1  God Made the World: God Made My Family. The children will explain how family members love and help one another. They will learn that God’s Son, Jesus, Mary, and Joseph are the Holy Family. The children will express appreciation for what individual family members do for them. They will express a desire to show love and concern for their family members.  

Language/Literacy -  Heggerty: Phonological awareness/listening comprehension: discriminate and sequence environmental sounds, respond appropriately. Writing: writing our names. Listening comprehension: expanding word knowledge, following directions. Oral language: expand understanding. Students will gain an understanding of rhyme by hearing and repeating rhyming word pairs. Students will isolate the initial sound in spoken words with focused consonant sounds. Students will learn to blend two words into a compound word. Students will isolate the final sound they hear in a spoken word with focused consonant sounds. Students will learn to segment a compound word into two individual word. Focus on Letter of the Week: Bb. Home/school connection - bring ‘B’ object from home. 

Corduroy the Bear home visits: Corduroy has enjoyed meeting all the children at school and is now curious about their lives outside the classroom! Corduroy will be taken home each Friday along with his journal and favorite book. Each child will get to spend 1 week with Corduroy and are encouraged to journal about their time with him. Journal entries may include photos, illustrations, and descriptions about what they did!  Objectives: promoting reading, pre-writing skills, using language to discuss personal experiences, enhancing listening skills, facilitating literacy development and social skills through group discussion. 

Social Studies - Identify places at our school. Our School Community: “Who are the workers in our school”? Children will meet the important workers in our school. They will learn about the jobs they do and visit where they work each day. Developing an understanding of our school community. 

Science - Gummy Bear Science. “How do gummy bears react to different liquids?” Making predictions, observations, and conclusions. Using language to express results. 

Math - Data analysis: sort objects and describe how groups are similar and different. Numbers & Operations: using verbal ordinal terms. Measuring using non-standard units. Gummy Bear Graphing: Graphic organizer: using a tool to organize and collect information. Data analysis: sorting by color. Math Words: more, less, and most. Focus on Color of the Month: Blue.

Preschool+Plus - Science: Ants! The children will learn about this insect’s body parts and discover how each are used. They will count the number of segments, antennae, and legs (Math) an insect has. They will create their own ant model (Art integration). Using hands on experiences the children will learn how ants communicate, carry food, eat, and smell! Ant Farm: They will make observations about how ants move, live, and eat in this contained environment. The children will go outside to identify where they live and observe ants in their natural environment. They will be involved in reading stories, singing songs, and learning rhymes about ants. (Literacy/Language integration)