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Welcome to Pre-kindergarten
Our Pre-K half-day program is very busy. We do opening activities, language arts, math, science, social studies, workshop/activity time, snack, and outside time. Small group and large group instruction is used in the program.
Opening Activities:
Pledge to the flag, calendar activities, weather discussion, singing, reciting poems/finger plays, and overview of the day.
Pre-K Language Arts Goals:
- To foster children’s language skills
- To help children learn about books and print
- To provide children with enjoyable experiences with good literature, informational stories, and poetry - and the beauty of written language
- To introduce the alphabet
- To help children hear and work with individual sounds in spoken language
- To provide a basic introduction to how the sounds of language work together
- To offer children opportunities to use what they are learning about letters and sounds
- To help children learn about stories and how they work
- To help children focus not only on the importance of learning but on the joy the learning brings.
- Units include:
- I’m Special
- Helping Hands
- At The Farm
- Families Everywhere Let’s Go
- Changes
- All Kinds of Friends
Pre-K Math Goals
- The students will count 1-10 consistently
- The students will identify numerals 0-5 consistently
- Units include:
- Same or Different
- Space and Shape
- Focus on Four
- Designs and Pattern
- One, Two, Three, Four, Five
- Sorting
- Focus on Five
- Heavy or Light? More or Less?
- Big or Small? Short or Tall?
- Shapes and Patterns
- Comparing and Ordering
- Numbers in Order
Social Studies:
Concepts include learning about rules, learning about family, others, and myself. We learn about our feels using the Second Step program.
Science:
In Science we study units on senses, animals, and weather.
Workshop/Activity time:
Students choose developmental centers to learn and play with others.
Student Assessment:
Parents are informed of student achievement/growth during the fall and spring parent/teacher conferences, however we encourage you to contact us at any time with questions or concerns.
Pre-kindergarten is an exciting and fun place for four year olds to learn and get ready for their kindergarten years.
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