Pre-Kindergarten
The Pre-Kindergarten class is designed to focus on pre-reading skills and to help develop awareness for beginning letter sounds and letter and number writing. Greater emphasis is placed on fine motor skills.
Language Arts and Reading Readiness Skills
- Alphabet recognition
- Phonics
- Language based writing stories
- Observation and discrimination activities
- Sequential memory problems
- verbal reasoning exercises
- Rhymes, poems and fingerplays
- Flannel board stories
- Foreign language
Mathematics
- Number recognition 1-10
- Directional skills
- Reasoning and problem solving
- Geometry
- Spacial relationships
- Estimation and measurement
Science
- Senses
- Weather
- Space
- Dinosaurs
- Animals of the Arctic
- Animals of the Desert
- Animals of the sea
- Plants
- Insects
- Cooking
Social Studies
- Colonial America
- Native Americans
- Famous Americans
- Community Helpers
- Eskimos
- Geography
- Safety and health
Gross Motor Skills
- Creative Movement and dance
- Gymnastics
- Cooperative games
- Woodworking
Art
- Guided instruction
- Self expression
Music
- Tempo
- Pitch
- Ear training
- Musical games
Drama
- Impromptu dramatization
- Thanksgiving program
- Winter program
- Spring program
Self Awareness
- Self esteem
- Self control
- Independence
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