Curriculum Areas, Skills, & Objectives
Communication & Language
Conversations, stories, sharing, word games, puppets, songs, loud, soft, high, low, left, right, body parts, finger plays, writing, scribbling, and coloring.
Math Readiness
Counting, measuring, shapes, comparing (size, color, weight, shape), grouping, estimating numbers, matching, separating, and classifications.
Science & Nature
Discovering how things work, floating, sinking, balancing, friction, wheels, magnets, freezing, melting, weighing, learning about living things through observing, caring for and talking about plants and animals, seasons, and weather.
Physical Education
Motor skills developed through the use of games, puzzles, tools, paints, crayons, clay, sand, water, and other manipulative materials, building, carrying, climbing, lifting, pushing, throwing, catching, balancing, running, jumping, pedaling, and group games.
Art
Experience with rhythm, movement, music, color, pictures, crafts, songs, clay, chalk, instruments, dramatic play, and puppets.
Reading Readiness
Shapes, stories, books, alphabet and fine motor abilities.
Social Studies
Family, community, holidays, cultures, days of the week, and months of the year.
Health and Safety
Daily hygiene, sun safety, accepting limits for safety, exposure to health and safety rules, awareness of body and what it can do, nutrition.
Practical Life
Self-care, buttoning, snapping, cleaning chores, snack activities, manners, and appropriate school behavior.