Four Year Old Pre-Kindergarten Program
The world of learning takes off for your child in our pre-kindergarten program. Our teachers lead hands on individual and small group activities to broaden your child’s understanding of science, social studies, music, language arts, math and art. Teachers engage your child in conversations about their activities to encourage further exploration and learning. A variety of settings and materials are used to accommodate individual abilities. Field trips and class visitor programs enhance monthly study explorations. Weekly class meetings encourage children to see themselves as problem solvers and responsibility takers. Parent/teacher conferences are held in the fall and spring.
Early Learning Objectives
Social and Emotional Development
- Follows class rules and routines
- Plays with others in small group
- Plays independently
- Forms and maintains friendships
- Carries out responsibilities
- Respects rights of others
- Willing to share
- Takes care of materials
- Shows concern for others
- Participates in class meetings
- Waits for turn
- Solves problems non-aggressively
Cognitive Development
- Explores objects and tools to learn their properties
- Describes past events in organized way
- Communicates their thinking processes
- Engages in pretend play based on stories
- Notices and describes weather conditions
- Makes and checks simple science predictions
- Reaches conclusions based on observations
- Applies everyday experiences to similar situations
- Speculates what might happen next
- Describes and asks questions about art and music
Language Arts Skills
- Speaks distinctly
- Understands complex sentences
- Usually speaks in grammatically correct sentences
- Communicates thoughts and feelings verbally
- Identify letters, upper & lower case
- Recognize name in print
- Attempts to write thoughts and ideas
- Traces and writes name and some letters
- Makes sound to letter matches
- Enjoys rhymes and word play
- Shows interest in reading books
- Answers questions about a story
- Sequences story cards to retell story
- Identifies patterns
Self Help Skills
- Private toileting
- Dresses independently
- Washes face and hands, wipe nose
- Cleans up toys and centers
- Follows oral directions
- Keeps up with belongings
- Keep up with belongings
- Assists with room tasks: meal
- prep, fold mat, wipe table, plant care
- Describes good health practices
- Follows established safety rules
Math Skills
- Identifies and sort shapes
- Uses positional words
- Identifies and duplicates repeating pattern
- Counts aloud 1-20
- Identifies numerals 1-10
- Traces and writes numerals 1-10
- Sequences numerals 1-5
- Set recognition
- Joins two sets for form a new set
- Compares items by size, length and weight
- Uses simple measurement tools
- Recognizes routines with time passing
Physical Development
- Engages in small building toy play
- Uses hand eye coordination for lacing, cutting, puzzles, snapping
- Use pencils, crayons, markers, paintbrush
- Uses tools and materials that require strength and dexterity
- Performs complex movements smoothly: skip, hop, balance, pedal
- Marches and dances to music
- Throws and catches ball
- Swings independently
- Engages in planned and unplanned active play
- Transitions from active to quite play easily
