St. Francis De Sales Central Catholic School

Pre-K4

Mrs. Chasity Eddy & Mrs. Jenny Cook

05/18/26 - 05/22/26

*Insects*

Read Aloud:

~ “The Grouchy Lady Bug” By: Eric Carle

~ “I Love Bugs” By: Philemon Sturges

~ “The Very Hungry Caterpillar” By: Eric Carle

Language and Literacy: 

~ We will continue to teach the children how to write their names (uppercase and lowercase letters) and how to grip the pencil properly (3 Finger Hold) as they do it. 

~ We will continue various name recognition and fine motor activities as well.

~ We will continue to have a focus letter each week as we travel the alphabet from A-Z.  It is important to note that we will review the letter's phoneme(s), how to write it properly, and discuss whether the letter is a consonant or vowel, and chart words that begin with that letter. For this week's letters, we will be focusing on the letters, Yy and Zz. We will work on the recognition, formation, and signing of the letters.  

~ We will continue to expose the children to the Fundations alphabet cards and writing paper that they use in Kindergarten.

~ We will continue to practice our daily Heggerty language and literacy program to prepare for Kindergarten!

Science & Social Studies:

~ We will be learning all about the various types of insects!

~ We will classify them based on flyers and crawlers.

~ Identify parts of an insect's body. 

~ We will learn about the life cycle of bees!

Math:

~ The children will participate in insect themed number recognition activities, sequencing, patterns, sorting, ten frame, graphing and counting activities.

~ The children will continue to practice copying/writing numbers 1-20 through various sensory activities. We will discuss how some numbers are even numbers, and other numbers are odd.   

~ We will continue counting in Spanish too!

RHYMES FOR WRITING NUMBERS:

0- Round and round, just like an "O", that's the way you make a zero!

1-Start at the top and down you run, that’s the way you make a one!

2-Make a candy cane and give it a shoe, that’s the way you make a two!

3-Around and around just like a /B/, that’s the way you make a three!

4-Down and across and slice through the door, that’s the way you make a four!

5-Short neck, belly fat, Mr. Five wears a hat!

6-Make a /c/ then in you go, now you’ve made a six you know!

7-Across the sky and down from Heaven, that’s the way you make a seven!

8-Make an /s/ and then don’t wait, go up and make the number eight!

9-Make a circle and then a line, that’s the way you make a nine!

10-A one and zero make ten a hero!

11-A one and a one make eleven fun!

Philosophy and Curriculum

Our philosophy is that through our teaching, we ensure that each child is loved, nurtured and safe while growing in all areas of development. Not only will the children learn academic skills but also a strong, age-appropriate understanding of our Catholic faith.  We are strong believers in implementing an emergent style of lesson plans early in the school year while we get to know each child’s area of interest and understanding. Throughout the school year there will be guided lessons that are individualized to meet each child's specific needs. 

Our curriculum is one that follows the West Virginia Early Learning Standards through the use of the state chosen, Creative Curriculum. Ongoing assessments and observations of the children are conducted during the school year. We believe that having open communication between teacher and families is needed to achieve a successful year for your child!  Parent/Teacher conferences will be held during the school year, in addition to these, we, Pre-K 4 Teachers, will make ourselves available to meet with you if you have further questions or concerns. We look forward to a wonderful, fun and exciting school year! 

God Bless!