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Social Awareness
- Recognize own uniqueness
- Recognize he/she is one of many
- Identify self by full name, age and birthday
- Engage in social interactions with peers and adults
- Develop friendships
- Participate in leadership and follower roles
- Use a variety of words to express feelings and ideas
- Foster self-esteem
- Learn manners
- Developing autonomy and independence
- Begin to understand kindness and respect
- Take turns and share
- Stand up for own rights
- Begin cooperative play
Cognitive Awareness
- Know and observe rules
- Know terms related to direction, location, quantity, and size
- Sequence daily events
- Repeat simple patterns
- Learn qualitative and quantitative concepts
Spiritual Awareness
- Tell that the stories of the Bible are true
- Tell that the Bible is God’s news to us
- Recognize by sight Bible words such as “Jesus” and “God”
- Listen with understanding to Bible stories and verses
- Name everyday actions that show obedience to Bible verses
- State in his or her own words Bible truths about ways to love and obey God
- Know that God loves and cares for us
- Know that God sent baby Jesus to show His love for us
- Know God’s Word helps us learn about the greatness and goodness of God and Jesus
- Respond by demonstrating love for God through kindness, helpfulness and thankfulness
- Respond and communicate to God (Jesus) through prayer
Fine Motor
- Strengthen hand muscles and control including pincher grasp
Manipulative skills
- Eye hand coordination
- Cutting skills
- Participate in finger plays
Gross Motor
- Body awareness
- Discover parts of the body and what they do
- Body mechanics
- Balance
- Coordination
- Running, hopping, skipping and jumping
- Throwing and catching
- Climbing
- Manage dressing and undressing
- Bending and stretching
- Preliminary gymnastics skills
- Participate in skills common to cooperative games and sports
Art
- Experiment with art materials
- Experiment to discover properties of art materials
- Discover color
- Express self through picture making, print making and constructing
- Express ideas through drawing
- Experiment informally with media
- Discover line, shape, texture, and color by seeing and feeling objects
Cooking
- Become familiar with common kitchen tools and appliances
- Gain some hands-on exposure to food items
- Count and measure appropriate amounts needed
Language and Listening
- Listen to instructions and important information
- Execute instructions
- Develop vocabulary and fluency
- Use a variety of words to express self
- Talk about what is experienced
- Use oral language in a variety of situations
- Engage in conversation
- Recognize familiar sounds
- Use vocabulary to compare objects
- Know terms relating to location and position
Reading and Writing
- Letter identification
- Become aware of speech sounds
- Name recognition
- Respond to story-telling
- Retell familiar story
- Create an original story
- Discriminate forms of letters
- Learn concepts of print
- Participate in emergent literacy skills
- Become a self conceptualizing reader
- Transition from scribbling to making letters
- Understand the direction of conventional print
- Identify initial consonant sounds
- Sequence alphabet
- Practice left to right and top to bottom progression
- Trace letters of alphabet
- Begin to write own name
Math
- Count orally
- Number recognition
- Match objects in one to one correspondences
- Form groups and sort according to attributes
- Match size and shape
- Count objects in a set
- Identify geometric shapes
- Compare size
- Understand simple picture graphs
- Orally identify a number of objects
- Use vocabulary to designate quantities
- Identify more/less
- Reproduce patterns
- Construct sets
- Write numerals
- Develop measurement concepts
Science
- Use senses to gain information
- Observe events and changes in our environment
- Compare similarities and differences among objects
- Know and practice rules of safety
- Perform simple science experiments
- Talk about what is experienced
- Order/categorize objects
- Sequence events in the order of their occurrence
- Discover and describe phenomena in the environment
- Use vocabulary to designate relationships
- Learn the steps in scientific process
Music Awareness
- Identify sources of sounds
- Discriminate conditions of sound (soft/loud, quiet/noisy, high/low)
- Verbally demonstrate recollection of songs
- Reproduce sound and sound patterns
- Use imitative movement
- Play simple rhythm instruments