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Pre-Kindergarten Program
By completion of the
Pre-Kindergarten program the children will learn the following skills...
Four to Five Years
Emotional Development
- Develop self-respect and
confidence
Social Development
- Differentiate between
wants and needs
- Appreciate other
cultures
- Recognize personal
interests
- Recognize differences
among people and families
- Recognize and observe
the needs for rules
- Develop respect for
others
- Have experience in and
knowledge about the community and helpers
- Introduced to new
cultures and places around the world
- Learn acceptable
behaviors in society
- Demonstrate courtesy
as a listener and a speaker
Physical Development
Gross Motor
- Use various types of
equipment for large muscle development
- Practice simple motor
skills in games and activities
- Perform simple
gymnastics
- Practice ball skills
- Explore various
movements through rhythmic activities
- Explore and
participate in various activities and simple games
- Balance and hop on one
foot
Fine Motor
- Hold a pair of
scissors correctly to snip, fringe, cut straight lines, etc.
- Draw from observation
of things in the environment
- In additions to
copying a triangle, copy a square and a circle
- Build a tower of ten
blocks
Cognitive Development
Concept Development
- Develop left to
right sequence skills
- Understand the
difference between reality and fantasy
- Participate in
individual and cooperative learning activities
- Understand and respond
to opposites
- Organize objects and
information into categories
- Identify a circle,
rectangle, square, triangle, diamond and a heart
- Introduction to
recognizing geometric patterns
- Problem solve using
daily living situations including sorting, classification and
measurement
- Understand the concept
of matching objects
- Name all the colors
Oral and Written Language
- Develop good listening
skills
- Recognize, say and
write first name
- Listen to and follow a
series of two step directions
- Participate in simple
discussions
- Give personal
information
- Use complete sentences
in conversation
- Develop vocabulary to
describe and express themselves
Reading Readiness
- Recognize, name and
print most upper case and some lower case letters
- Enjoy picture books,
magazines and story books
- Listen to nursery
rhymes and fairy tales to develop appreciation of literature
- Listen to stories,
comprehend and predict events in sequence
- Communicate ideas and
feelings through drawings and writing
- Retell familiar
stories with correct sequence
- Compose an original
story by dictation and then "read" it to others
- Recite poems and
finger plays
Science
- Identify and observe
some basic needs of plant life
- Use a balance to
compare the weight of two objects
- Learn about different
climates and parts of the country
- Identify and observe
some basic weather changes and select clothing and activities
appropriate to the weather
- Develop the five
senses
- Have a basic
understanding of health and good foods and their importance
- Identify some visible
body parts and their functions
- Classify foods by
taste
- Learn that some plants
are important food sources, but others are harmful
- Identify objects using
only one sense at a time
Math
- Recognize and print
numerals 1 to 20
- Rote count from 1 to
20
- Sequence number from 1
to 20
- Count backwards from
10
- Recognize what numbers
come before or after another number
- Being introduced to
recognizing number patterns
- Establish one-to-one
correspondence through matching members of equivalent sets
Art, Music and Movement
- Being introduced to
various painting media and techniques
- Being introduced to
the spectrum of colors
- Experience the tactile
quality of clay
- Draw a human figure
with major body parts
- Experience different
art medium to "create"
- Recognize and perform
rhythms through listening, singing, moving, marching and playing
classroom rhythm instruments
- Learn to use their
singing voice to sing a variety of songs
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