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Pre-Kindergarten

 

 

 

 

PreKindergarten Curriculum

Philosophy

 

We believe that children should be provided a safe and nurturing environment that encourages family involvement and promotes the physical, social, emotional, and cognitive development of young children.

We believe that children of this age learn the most during their play, using hands-on activities.

We believe that all children learn and grow at individual rates.

We believe that whatever your child knows at the beginning of the school year is exactly what (s)he should know. All children come to school with a wide range of abilities. We meet the individual needs of each and every child.

We believe in inclusion and feel that children with special needs learn from typically functioning children; just as typically functioning children learn from children with special needs.

 

 

 

 

 

Mission

 

Our mission for the PreKindergarten program is to provide developmentally appropriate, hands-on learning experiences to foster each child’s individual needs in a language rich, nurturing, and safe environment.

 

 

Experiences

 

Gross Motor Coordination

• Walk forward, backward and sideways on tape/footprints
• Imitate body movements
• Descend steps with alternating feet
• Identify and use body parts
• Run, jump and hop
• Throw and catch ball with limited control
• Manipulate body in space
• Walk forward, backward, and sideways on balance beam
• Gallop

 

 

 

Fine Motor Coordination

• Manipulate small objects (with both hands)
• Hold crayons and pencils appropriately (scribbles)
• Hold scissors appropriately and cut
• Trace, copy and draw basic shapes
• Draw a person with six body parts
• Write first name

 

 

 

Auditory

• Listen without interrupting while maintaining eye contact
• Follow one or easy two-step directions
• Recall familiar nursery rhymes, poems and alliterative phrases
• Identify and recognize difference in volume and type of sound
• Listen to and retell a story in sequence
• Repeat a pattern or series of sounds
• Finish an incomplete sentence with an appropriate word

 

Language

• Identify and name common objects and pictures
• Use singular and plural forms of common words
• Communicate thoughts and needs in complete sentences of four to six words
• Recognize and name basic colors, shapes and sizes
• Dictate simple sentences about objects and illustrations
• Understand the meaning of basic concepts
• Begin to identify letters

 

Visual

• Follow fixed and moving objects with eyes without moving head
• Identify likenesses and differences of objects and pictures
• Match color, shape and size
• Put simple puzzles together (8-12 pieces)
• Identify and name missing items from memory
• Identify and locate objects from a complex background (figure-ground)
• Classify and sort pictures and objects into sets
• Place 2-4 items or pictures in sequence by

memory

• Recognize printed name

 

 

Math

• Count from 1-20
• Count objects 1-10
• Understand ordinal positions: first and last
• Demonstrate a one-to-one correspondence
• Show awareness of the use of the calendar
• Begin to identify the numerals 1-10

 

 

Social

• Enjoy working and playing with others
• Care for personal possessions
• Participate in a variety of play
• Verbally defend self and possessions
• Participate in group activities
• Work and play cooperatively with other

children and adults

• Identify emotions and feelings of self

and others

• Care for personal needs (such as dressing,

eating, toileting, and blowing their nose)