October 6th, 2025-October 10th, 2025
Core Content Review & Pre-K Skills Checklist Week

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☺ Faith Focus: Remembering Who We Are In Jesus 
✎ After this week's spiral review, students should be able to:
• recall key Bible stories that show how Jesus loves and cares for us.
• recognize that we belong to Jesus and are called to follow Him.
• remember who Saint Michael and Saint Francis were and how they showed love for God.
  • identify ways we can act like Jesus and the saints in our everyday lives.

• recall that guardian angels help protect us and that we can pray to God for the needs of ourselves and others.

Focus Stories:

1) Jesus and the Fishermen
2) Let the Children Come to Me
3) Jesus and the Lost Sheep

Feast Days & Saints to Recall:
1) Saint Michael the Archangel
2) Saint Francis of Assisi

☺ Weekly Literacy/ELA Focus: F is for Faith, Friends, and Following Jesus!

✎ After this week's lesson, students should be able to...
•  begin to recognize and name the uppercase (F) and lowercase (f) forms of the letter F/f.
•  begin to identify F/f as the beginning letter in familiar words (e.g., fish, frog, feather, family, faith).
    •  begin to produce the /f/ sound when shown the letter or an object that begins with F/f.
•  begin to trace, write, or form the letter F/f using a variety of tools or sensory materials.

☺ Monthly Math Focus: Math is everywhere! This is the number one! One is fun! We can sort, count, and show information to learn about our friends, our favorite things, and God’s creation!

✎ After this month's exploration, students should be able to...

•  begin to demonstrate a general understanding of the number 1 and ways to represent it.

• begin to use math-related vocabulary and position words during structured and play-based activities (e.g., count, number, shape names, how many, on, in, under, over, next to).

• begin to understand the concept of one (one guardian angel one item, one motion, one sound).

   • begin to sort and count objects to show information in a simple graph.
      • begin to describe patterns in the graph using words like “more,” “less,” or “same.”

☺ Autumnal Science Focus: God created apples for us to eat and enjoy. Apples help us learn about nature, healthy foods, and how things grow. 

✎ After this study, students should be able to: 

•  use senses to observe and describe apples. 

 •  identify parts of an apple. 

 •  make simple predictions and observations during experiments.

 •  compare and classify apples by color, size, and taste. 

 •  show understanding that apples grow on trees in orchards.

☺ Autumnal Social Studies Focus: In the fall, I can see changes all around me. I can notice how the weather feels, what people wear, what foods we eat, and how we celebrate together.

✎ After this study, students should be able to:
• identify fall as one of the four seasons. 

• recognize observable changes in the environment during fall (leaves, weather, daylight). 

• describe how people and animals prepare for fall (clothing, food, migration, hibernation). 

• learn that communities celebrate and work together in special ways during the fall (harvest, Halloween, Thanksgiving, festivals).