2024 Curriculum November – Preschool

Oct 30, 2024

Theme: Thanksgiving

Bible Stories: Jonah, Joseph & Coat of Many Colors, Thanksgiving – God Feeds His People, Birth of Jesus

Bible Reference: Exodus 16:1-31, I Samuel 3:1 – 21

Character Building Emphasis: Learning to Say Thank You

Memory Verse: “Enter his gates with thanksgiving and his courts with praise”. Psalm 100:4

Language and Vocabulary:

  1. Vegetable naming, sorting, learning about the grocery store.
  2. Thanksgiving theme, sharing vocabulary.
  3. Cooking experiences.
  4. Colors – red, blue, yellow, orange, brown, and gold.
  5. Directional and positional concepts – up and down.
  6. Health habits/nutrition.
  7. Food groups.
  8. Manners – obedience, working together, thankfulness.
  9. Shape – Triangle.
  10. Letters – Hh, Ii, Jj

Skills:

Fine Motor:
Lacing, painting, cutting, coloring, play dough manipulation, stringing, tower building, making vertical lines and path tracing.

Gross Motor:
Games, jumping, ball handling, balance.

Premath:
One-to-one correspondence, calendar activities, sorting, numbers and numerals, tall and short, triangle.

Creative Dramatics:
Family roles, firefighters.

Perception:
Same and different, draw a person, puzzles, copying block, peg and bead designs, patterning.

Sensory Skills:
Introducing all five senses.