Our Curriculum

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Pre K 3

Pre K 4

Social and Emotional Development

Knowledge of self

• Children exhibit self-awareness through self-respect, personal preferences, and knowledge of personal information.   
• Children develop self-control, follow simple rules and daily routines, accept transitions, adapt to different environments, and express feelings through appropriate gestures, actions and language. 
• Children develop personal responsibility, care for personal and group possessions, and begin to accept the consequences of his/her own actions. 

Knowledge of Others

• Children build relationships of mutual trust and respect with others, respect adult leadership, and seek comfort and security from significant adults.
• Children develop friendships, use courteous words and actions, and respect similarities and differences among people.
• Children work cooperatively with other children and with adults, share ideas with others, begin to examine a situation from another's perspective, asks questions, and show interest in learning new things and trying new experiences.

Approaches to Learning

• Children initiate interactions with others, make decisions independently, and develop independence during activities, routines and play.
• Children exhibit creativity, imagination and a willingness to try new ways of doing things.  Children use imagination to generate a variety of ideas, and exhibit a sense of humor.
• Children have a positive self-image and view himself/herself as competent.  Children show confidence in expressing his/her own ideas and opinions. 
• Children display persistence, sustain attention to a task or activity appropriate to her/his age, pursue challenges, and cope with frustration.
• Children use problem-solving skills alone and in cooperation with others.

Religious and Spiritual Development

• Children exhibit an awareness of God as Creator and of Jesus, His Son.
• Children participate in prayer.
• Children retell some Bible stories.

Literacy

Symbolic Development: Represents feelings and ideas in a variety of ways.

• Children represent feelings and ideas through pretend play, music and movement, art and construction.
• Spoken/Expressive Language:  Uses language to communicate ideas, feelings, questions, or to solve problems.
• Children use language to communicate and are understood by others.
• Children initiate and respond appropriately in conversation and discussion with adults and children.
• Children use complete sentences of varying length.

Listening/Receptive Language:  Listens for different purposes.

• Children follow simple directions.
• Children listen responsively to books and stories.
• Children listen to and engage in conversations with others.
• Children respond to questions.

Written Language:  Uses writing as a means of communication.

• Children experiment with writing tools and materials. 
• Children use scribbles, shapes, pictures and letters to write.
• Children tell others about intended meaning of drawings and writings.
• Children use a variety of resources to facilitate writing.

Knowledge of Print and Books:  Applies early reading skills.

• Children show interest in reading and books. 
• Children exhibit book-handling skills. 
• Children pretend to read easy or predictable books or tries to read along during his/her favorite part of story.
• Children respond to text.
• Children read environmental print and symbols.
• Children identify some alphabet letters. 
• Children recognize that print represents spoken words.
• Children develop a sense of story.

Sounds of Language:  Attends to sounds in language.

• Children repeat rhymes, simple songs, poems, and finger plays.
• Children participate in word games.
• Children discriminate some sounds in words.

Physical Development, Health and Safety

Physical Development and Coordination

• Children control body movements, demonstrate coordination as they move from one point to another, and use large muscle movements to manipulate objects.
• Children use fingers and hands to accomplish fine motor tasks and use tools in a functional manner.  Children exhibit coordination of facial muscles. 
• Children exhibit sensory, body, spatial, and temporal awareness in their environment.

Health and Safety

• Children practices healthy behaviors and personal hygiene.
• Children participate in daily physical activity and exhibit body strength and endurance.
• Children practice safe behaviors, follow adult directions during emergencies, and know how and when to seek help.

Science

Physical Science

• Children use one or more of their senses to explore physical properties of objects and materials.
• Children experiment with objects, materials, and simple tools to gather information and observe reactions.
• Children ask questions about objects and materials and talks about the physical world.
• Children identify problems involving physical properties of objects and materials, make predictions based on prior experiences with objects and materials, and experiment to produce desired effects.
• Children represent observations of the physical world through pretend play, music and movement, art and construction.

Life Science

• Children talk about plants and animals and show interest in plant and animal changes.  
• Children use their senses to observe the natural world and investigate characteristics of living things by asking questions. 
• Children recognize that living things have needs and identify problems involving living things.
• Children represent observations about living things through pretend play, music and movement, art and construction.

Earth and Space

• Children show interest through questions and experimentation with properties of earth and space.
• Children identify problems involving earth and space and make predictions based on knowledge and experiences.
• Children represent observations about earth and space through pretend play, music and movement, art and construction.

Mathematics

Number and operations:  Children demonstrate an understanding of numbers and numerical operations.

• Children use number to show quantity.
• Rote count at least to 30
• Count objects up to 20.
• Recognize and name one-digit numerals.

Children use language to represent number of objects.

• Use ordinals first through fifth, and last.
• Compare groups of objects, using terms like more/less, same.

Children solve problems using number.

• Demonstrate understanding of one-to-one correspondence (e.g. place one animal in each truck, give each child one cookie.)
• Recognize a number of objects (up to four) without counting.
• Recognize formation of pips on a number cube (dice) and connect it with number.
• Match sets.
• Spontaneously count for own purposes.
• Explore meaning of addition and subtraction by using concrete objects.

Children use numerical representation.

• Begin to write one-digit numerals.
• Discriminate numerals from letters.
• Recognize numbers in the environment (e.g. address, clocks, calendar)
• Geometry and Spatial Sense:  Children develop knowledge of spatial concepts.
• Children investigate positions and locations.
• Use positional words (e.g. in/out, over/under, between, up/down) to describe.
• Follow directions that use positional words.

Children explore shapes and color in the environment.

• Explore and talk about basic shapes in the environment (e.g. circle, square, triangle) and recognize their real-world purpose.
• Name and identify basic colors.
• Explore three-dimensional shapes by building with blocks and other materials.
• Explore connections between two- and three-dimensional forms (e.g. sphere and circle, cube and square)
• Identify symmetry.
• Use simple shapes to make designs, patterns, and pictures.
• Use puzzles to demonstrate part-to-whole relationship.

Patterns and Relationships:  Children understand patterns, relationships, and classifications.

• Describe patterns in the environment. 
• Represent patterns in a variety of ways.
• Show an awareness of attributes of objects through sorting, grouping, ordering, and classifying.
• Begin to represent data in pictures and drawings.
• Order and stack objects by size. 

Measurement:  Children apply concepts of measurement.

• Explore the use of nonstandard objects for measurement.
• Compare and order objects according to measureable attributes (e.g. length, weight).
• Demonstrate understanding of basic temporal relations (e.g. sequence of daily routines).
• Understand basic calendar concepts.

Exploring Data:  Children use mathematical knowledge to represent, communicate, and solve problems in their environment.

• Use emergent mathematical knowledge to solve problems that arise in mathematics and in other contexts.
• Use communication to organize and clarify mathematical thinking by discussing, listening, and asking questions during activities.          
• Recognize that mathematics is used in a variety of contexts in all disciplines, and apply mathematics in practical situations and other disciplines.
• Use media and technology to reinforce concrete mathematical information (e.g. explore shapes and patterns).
• Interpret charts and graphs.