Preschool

Themes and Lessons:

• Marvelous Me! What makes me special? 

• God made each of us special and unique.

• Pumpkins

• Community Helpers

This week we read:

• The Legend of Spookly 

• Grandma's Tiny House

• Pete the Cat's Halloween

• Sparky the Fire Dog

• Jesus Shine in me

Religion:  The Holy Trinity Candy Corn

• Practice daily classroom prayers: Morning Prayer, Mealtime Prayer, Rest Time Prayer, and End-of-the-Day Prayer

• Learn the importance of prayer and talking to God

• End each day by reading a Bible story

• Learn about God’s love and the Good News shared in the Bible

• Encourage children to show kindness, love, forgiveness, and gratitude each day

Writing: 

• Practice printing the letters and numbers we have learned (Ll, Ff, Ee, Hh, Tt, Ii) (1,2,3,4,5,6)

Language and Literacy:

• Rhyming words

• Vowels

• Beginning Sounds

• Middle Sounds

• Ending Sounds

• Blending and segmenting words

• Clapping and counting out syllables in words we hear

Math: 

• Counting to 30

• Identifying numbers 1-10

• Identifying shapes 

• More or Less

Songs and Music: 

• 5 Little Pumpkins 

• Way up high in the apple tree

• Good Morning Song, Good Bye Song

• Days of the week, Months of the year, Seasons

• The Better Alphabet Song

Science: 

Pumpkins!

We are learning all about Pumpkins! The life cycle of an pumpkin. What pumpkins feel, smell and look like. 

Social Studies:  

Fire Safety

Small Groups:

Each week the children will have different learning centers that they will work at in groups of 3 to 4 students. The learning centers focus on building what we are learning in preschool (fine motor, names, letters, shapes, numbers, working together, problem solving).