Pre-Kindergarten Class
The Year of Mastering...
Children learn through play. Our goal is to provide a fun classroom environment filled with a variety of hands-on learning opportunities to stimulate cognitive skills for 4-5 year olds. Our units and daily activities create an environment rich in language and social skills that build on self-esteem and fostering independence to prepare your child for Kindergarten Readiness.
Language Arts
- Introduction to rhyming words/word families
- Vocabulary continues to develop and descriptive phrases increase
- Letters of the alphabet introduced with phonetic sound
- Sight words (little words and color words)
- Upper and lower case alphabet
- Writes first name (last name) with proper use of upper case letters
- Language rich environment (labeled classroom objects)
- Introduction to syllables
- Understands letters and that letters equal words
- Begins decoding skills
- Vowel sounds
- Introduction to initial consonant sounds
- Begins to write words
- Dramatic play—acting out stories
- Emphasis on completing centers
- Working independently and within groups
- Sentence structure/guided writing
- Alphabetical order
- Story sequencing (3-5 pictures)
Math
- Identifies numbers 1-30
- Counts by rote (by 1’s , 5’s and 10’s)
- Order sequentially 1-30
- Recognizes written numbers 1-30
- Understands number concepts 1-20 by 1 to 1 correspondence
- Introduction of ordinals 1st-10th
- Sorts by color, shape and size
- Geometrical concepts and spatial relationships
- Continues patterns by color and shape
- Introduction to graphing
- Introduction to fraction concepts
- Calendar concepts
- One more, one fewer
- Compare objects by weight
- Concepts of more, same, fewer, less than
Social Studies
- Introduction of community, state, country and world
- Review of address and telephone number
- Introduction of global concepts
- Explore selected cultures and customs
- Introduction to explorers
- Historical people
Science
- Seasons and weather
- Planting and growing
- Senses
- Sink and float
- Weight and scales
- Light and outer space
- Wildlife-habitation and hibernation
- Extinct animals
- Volcanoes
- Nutrition
- Hygiene
- Insects
- Ocean
- Magnets
Art
- Fine motor eye to hand coordination
- Cutting independently
- Creative discovery and expression
- Color / shapes / size
- Spatial relationships
- Step by step crafts
- Created objects are more identifiable
Music
- Listens and responds to music through moving, singing and playing
- Singing, memorizing words and rhythms
- Identifies basic concepts of loud, soft, fast and slow
- Singing with musical accompaniment
Christian Education
- Bible Verses
- Prayers
- Bible Stories
- Chapel stories, role play & Puppets
- Classroom application of chapel lesson
Special Events
- Music & Movement
- Class holiday parties
- Special school days (P.J., Dress Up, Pet, etc.)
- Live Nativity
- Christmas Pageant
- Consignment Sale
- Guest Presenters
- Carnival Day
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