Themes and Lessons
Happy New Year!! We welcome the winter season and 2026!
Winter- Snowflakes, arctic animals (polar bears, penguins), Hibernation
Every Day Helpers
This week we read:
The Invisible String
The Biggest Valentine
All you need is LOVE
The Little Red Hen
How do Dinosaurs say I Love you
Religion:
God Made Color
Saint Valentine
Traditional House Blessing 20+C+M+B+26
Classroom Prayers (Morning, Mealtime, Rest time Prayer, End of the Day Prayer)
To end our day we read from the Bible. The children enjoy hearing all of the good news the Bible has to share.
Writing:
The Letter Bb
Letters in our first name and last name
Mat Man
Language and Literacy:
Rhyming words
Vowels
Beginning Sounds
Middle Sounds
Blending and segmenting words
Clapping and counting out syllables in words we hear
Math:
Counting to 30
Identifying numbers 1-10
Identifying shapes
Songs and Music:
Love grows
Skidamarink
Jingle Bells
Jesus Loves Me
Advent
10 little turkeys
The More We Get Together
Good Morning Song, Good Bye Song
Days of the week, Months of the year, Seasons
The Better Alphabet Song
Colors of the Year (church colors)
Science:
Penguin Races--We used ice cubes and a ramp to race our pretend penguins!
Social Studies:
Groundhog Day!
With Catholic Schools week this week, our 5th grade friends came to our class and we had buddy reading!
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).