Pre-K Program

Pre-K Development Goals

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
  • Resolve conflicts verbally
  • Exhibits self control
  • Participate in cooperative play
  • Learn to work in small groups

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
  • Deductive reasoning
  • Higher level thinking skills

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
  • Correct crayon/pencil grip

Gross Motor

  • Body awareness
  • Body mechanics
  • Posture
  • Balance
  • Coordination
  • Running, hopping, skipping and jumping
  • Throwing and catching
  • Climbing
  • Spatial and directional awareness
  • Managing dressing and undressing
  • Bending and stretching
  • Preliminary gymnastics skills
  • Participate in skills common to cooperative games and sports

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
  • State rhyming words

Cooking

  • Become familiar with common kitchen tools and appliances
  • Gain some hands on exposure to food items
  • Count and measure appropriate amounts needed

Reading and Writing

  • Letter identification
  • Letter/sound identification
  • Matching upper and lowercase letters
  • Sequence alphabet
  • Name recognition
  • Respond to storytelling
  • Retell familiar story
  • Create an original story
  • Recognize basic sight words
  • Beginning blending
  • Learn concepts of print
  • Participate in emergent literacy skills
  • Become a self conceptualizing reader
  • Understand the direction of conventional print
  • Practice left to right and top to bottom progression
  • Write own name using upper and lower case letters
  • Begin using letters to represent words
  • Work to blend letter sounds to begin phonetic spelling of words
  • Learn word attack skills to discriminate sounds
  • Concept of letter, word, phrase

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
  • Design an original pattern with repetition
  • Construct sets
  • Write numerals
  • Develop measurement concepts
  • Record measurement of objects
  • Combine sets to add
  • Match numerals with sets
  • Compare numbers to identify larger and smaller
  • Understand beginning money and time concepts
  • Demonstrate understanding of part/whole
  • Order objects and numbers
  • Match sets of objects

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
  • Use vocabulary to compare relationships
  • Learn the steps in scientific process
  • Recall and conclude

Music Awareness

  • Identify source of sounds
  • Discriminating 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

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