What We're Learning About

10/19 This Week in Pre K- 4

This Week All About Halloween 

Literacy 

The children will continue developing their early literacy skills by examining book covers, making predictions about stories, and sharing their prior knowledge and personal experiences. We will also continue our Phonics program, where the children practice identifying beginning and ending sounds, blending sounds, and recognizing rhyming words. These engaging activities help strengthen their phonological awareness and build a strong foundation for early reading.

Writing & Fine Motor Skills

The children will continue to develop their writing and fine-motor skills through a variety of hands-on activities. They will practice cutting, working with Play-Doh, and writing their first names, letters, and shapes. Students will also continue to identify letters, recognize their sounds, and name objects that begin with each letter.

Religion

Children will understand that God created water as a special gift and learn how we use water every day to drink, wash, and help plants and animals grow.

Story Time

During story time, the children will listen to a fun Halloween story featuring pumpkins, costumes, and trick-or-treating. They will use their imagination and have the opportunity to share their favorite Halloween activities. We will also talk about Halloween safety, including staying with a trusted adult, looking both ways before crossing the street, and being careful when walking at night.

Math

Sorting and grouping – organize objects into piles by color, shape, or size.

 Size recognition – to practice numbers and quantity. 

Shape: square and rectangle– to identify, draw and create art. 

 Color: red, yellow, blue, green, orange and purple – to identify colors.

and items that represent each color. Students will be exposed to the written word for each.

Science

We will continue to learn about bones and skeletons! The children will continue to learn about the important role bones play in our bodies. We will also explore and learn about spiders and bats. They will practice through activities.

Dramatic Play & Practical Life Skills

The children will practice taking turns, sharing, preparing pretend meals, and using kind and respectful words with their friends. They will continue developing independence and positive social skills through hands-on play.

Art 

Spiders 

Social Studies 

The children will learn about different living things, such as humans, spiders, and bats, and discuss where they live. We will compare their habitats and talk about how all living things need food, water, and shelter to survive. The children will explore how humans live in homes, spiders build webs, and bats may live in caves or trees. Through discussion, the children will learn that living things have different needs and homes that help keep them safe.

Specials

Life Skills: Every other Monday

Music: Tuesday

Gym: Wednesday (Children must wear sneakers)

Library/Art: Thursday

Spanish: Friday

Goals

This week, we will develop early literacy, writing, fine-motor, math, science, and social skills through engaging, hands-on activities. The students will practice making predictions about stories, recognizing letters, sounds, colors, shapes, and numbers, and strengthening their writing skills. Students will learn that God created water as a special gift, explore bones and healthy habits, and discover the habitats and needs of living things. Through Halloween stories, spider art, and dramatic play, children will also build creativity, practice Halloween safety, develop independence, and learn the importance of sharing, taking turns, and using kind words.