Social / Emotional

•Learn to share and take turns

•Make and keep friends

•Discuss his/her feelings

•Try out different roles

•Develop manners

•Be able to sit in a group and participate

•Resolve conflicts using words

•Create a wonderful sense of self-esteem

•Become an independent and responsible person

•Develop autonomy

 

Cognitive

•Use and remember rules

•Be able to sequence daily events

•Use higher level thinking skills

•Repeat and make simple patterns

•Know terms that relate to direction, location, quantity

and size

 

Fine Motor

•Be able to hold a pencil correctly

•Build hand-eye coordination

•Be able to cut properly (thumb on top)

•Strengthen muscle control to help cutting, writing, and

grasping skills

 

Gross Motor

•Body awareness

•Good posture and balance

•Coordination

•Swinging and pumping

•Skipping, galloping, jumping, running and hopping

•Throwing and catching

•Spatial awareness

•Unbuttoning, tying, zippering

•Play cooperative games

 

Language and Listening

•Listen and follow directions

•Develop large vocabulary

•Recognize and say rhyming words

•Beginning blending

•Use vocabulary in self-expression

•Converse with peers and teachers

•Recognize familiar sounds

 

Art

•Use all sorts of different art media and materials

•Express self through art

•Recognize primary colors

•Recognize secondary colors and how they are made

•Develop free expression through painting and drawing

•Know the parts of the body and be able to draw them

correctly (head, body, ears, arms, legs, etc.)

 

Cooking

•Become familiar with simple kitchen tools

•Learn about healthy eating and the food pyramid

•Measure appropriate amounts

•Learn simple recipes

•Experience cause and effect

•Be exposed to new foods and tastes

 

Reading and Writing

•Recognize entire alphabet

•Identify letters with their sounds

•Match upper and lower case letters

•Write name with a capital letter and lower case letters

•Recognize own name and the names of others

•Recognize print conventions and that print carries meaning

•Learn the parts of a book

•Know what an Author does

•Know what an Illustrator does

•Use Handwriting Without Tears to write letters properly

•Create an interest in reading and writing

•Name words that start with specific letters

•Retell a story

• We use the Handwriting Without Tears Program to teach writing naturally.

 

Math

•Count to twenty orally

•Recognize numbers

•Match objects in one-to-one correspondence

•Sort according to size, color and shape

•Understand graphs

•Count up to ten objects using one-to-one correspondence

•Understands “more than”, “less than” and “equal to”

•Can mimic a pattern

•Can create own pattern that repeats

•Solve simple addition and subtraction problems with a small number of objects

•Compare two objects by length, weight or capacity

•Identify and use a variety of shapes in their everyday lives

•Expand their understanding of positions in space

•Expand the use of mathematical thinking to solve

problems that arise in their everyday environment

•Write numbers

 

Science

•Use senses to gain information

•Observe events and changes in our environment

•Perform simple science experiments

•Talk and graph what was experienced

•Discover natural phenomena

•Learn how to care for a pet

•Discuss and discover local flora and fauna

•Become knowledgeable in Natural Science

 

Music

•Be exposed to all forms of music

•Know the different levels of sound

•Remember and sing songs

•Remember and repeat music movements

•Play and become familiar with simple rhythm instruments