Pre-K 3
Religion: Unit 1 (con't) God Made Me Live: I Can Touch. We will learn about the advantage of our ability to feel and know that God made the many textures of our world. God reaches us and speaks to us through our senses, including the sense of touch.
Language/Literacy - Enjoying listening to and talking about storybooks. Listening to and participating in songs/rhymes.
Social Studies - Our Friends at School: Me Bags. Let’s learn about our friends at school as they share their Me Bags with the class. This weekly activity helps the children learn about each other and know that each of them are special and unique.
Math - Colors. Color recognition/color naming. What is your favorite color? Which color do our friends like the most? Shapes: Focus on Shape of the Month - Circle. Attributes of a circle.
Specials - Music
Pre-K 4
Religion - Unit 1: God Made People - God Made My Friends. We will discuss the traits that make up a good friend. We will learn that friends help each other. We will understand that Jesus is our friend and He cares for us. The children will listen to a story about Jesus’ twelve friends.
Language/Literacy - Learning Goals - Alphabet knowledge: Letters in your name. Begin an understanding that words can be represented in print. Writing: writing our names. Listening comprehension: expanding word knowledge, following directions. Oral language: expand understanding of concept. 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.
Social Studies - Welcoming new friends in the classroom. 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 - Chicka-Chicka, Boom- Boom. We love science in our room! Preschoolers will use their observation skills to explore a coconut. They will make predictions to determine if their coconut will sink or float.
Math - Number & operations: counting to 1-10 items. Data analysis: sort objects and describe how groups are similar and different. Graphing: Using a pictorial representation boys/girls in our class. Shape Focus of the Month: Circle. Attributes of a Circle. Forming shapes.
STEM: An inquiry-based approach to learning that integrates Science, Technology, Engineering, Math. How many drops fit on your dot? Science: using a scientific tool. Technology: modeling. Engineering: develop early concepts through hands-on activities. Math: Geometry - flat shapes, circle, Counting - one to one correspondence.
Specials - Media
Preschool+Plus
“How I Spent My Summer Vacation”, by author Mark Teague. Children will be involved in developing oral language & listening skills as we discuss our summer travel destinations. Accompanying photos will be used to map these locations on our classroom map. Children will be introduced to reading a map and relating it to real world objects. Mapping Our Classroom: Children will create simple maps of their classroom. Activities will help develop an understanding of direction (which way), location (where?), and representation (what a drawing stands for), spatial awareness and vocabulary (positional words). Preschoolers will be introduced to Google Maps. They will use this mapping service to view aerial photography of familiar locations, and gain an understanding of a bird’s eye view.
**Don’t forget your photos!
