Three-Year-Olds

Positive Self-Concept
  • Reinforce a child's initiative with positive behavior
  • Appreciation of different cultures
  • Self-help skills

Socialization Skills
  • Cooperative play and group activities
  • Sharing
  • Expressing positive AND negative feelings with words
  • Recognizing other people's feelings

Language Skills
  • Verbalizing complete sentences
  • Increasing descriptive vocabulary
  • Role playing through dramatic play
  • Follow single- and multiple-step verbal directions
  • Reading stories to individuals and groups
  • Introduce emergency procedures (i.e. 911, fire-drill, earthquake preparedness)

Gross Motor Skills
  • Provide locomotor movement activities
  • Balance beam
  • Introduce bouncing and catching a ball
  • Aiming a ball
  • Bean bag skills
  • Climbing
  • Tricycle riding skills

Fine Motor Skills
  • Scissors (learning to cut on a straight line)
  • Handling small craft supplies (e.g. beans, noodles, rice)
  • Tracing (using stencils)
  • Puzzles and manipulative toys
  • Stringing beads and macaroni
  • Felt pens
  • Easel painting
  • Large crayons
  • Finger plays
  • Watercolors

Shapes
  • Review basic shapes and introduce new ones (e.g. oval, diamond)
  • Make shape books

Numbers
  • Recognize 1 through 5
  • Introduce 6 through 10

Alphabet
  • Exposure to upper case A through Z
  • Begin learning to recognize name

Colors
  • Basic colors
  • Introduce mixing new colors

Music and Drama
  • Acting out stories
  • Puppetry
  • Follow directions heard on a recording
  • Role playing

Classification
  • Sorting and matching patterns and shapes
  • Concepts of quantity
  • Opposites
  • Light and heavy principles
  • Measuring

Spatial Relationships
  • Recognizing the body parts in their proper spacial relationships

Seriation
  • Learning to sort tall and short, wide and narrow, long and short

Science (Experiencing and Observing)
  • Begin awareness of the months of the year
  • Nutrition
  • Seasons, weather, sun and moon
  • Environmental awareness, gardening
  • Wonders of nature (e.g. animals, butterflies, birds)

Pre-Kindergarten (4 and 5 Year-Olds)

Positive Self-Concept
  • Building skills required for future schooling
  • Self-help skills
  • Developing leadership qualities
  • Appreciation of different cultures

Socialization Skills
  • Cooperative play in small and large groups activities
  • Sharing
  • Understanding other people's feelings

Language Skills
  • Increasing vocabulary
  • Increasing descriptive vocabulary
  • Telling a story (both verbal and with flannel board)
  • Telling a complete story (beginning, middle, and ending)
  • Learn complete name, address, and phone number

Gross Motor Skills
  • Leaping, skipping, galloping, and hopping
  • Games with balls and bean bags
  • Responding to a designated direction
  • Parachute play, climbing, and bike riding

Fine Motor Skills
  • Using scissors to cut along straight lines, curves and spirals
  • Cutting pictures out of magazines
  • Using glue sticks and glue
  • Watercolor painting
  • Drawing figures to relate a story
  • Easel painting
  • Finger painting
  • Lacing, pegboards, rubber band boards, stringing beads
  • Pin punching

Shapes
  • Review shapes
  • Work on and complete shape booklets

Numbers
  • Recognize 1 through 15
  • Calendar use
  • Counting from 1 to 30
  • Learning to write 1 through 12
  • Money concepts through dramatic play (e.g. grocery, hat, shoe store)

Alphabet
  • Recognize and write upper case A through Z
  • Begin learning initial letter sounds 
  • Letter of the week activities

Colors
  • Introduce pastel colors
  • Mixing colors

Music and Drama
  • Creative movement
  • Acting out stories
  • Singing more complex songs
  • Introduce tempo and volume
  • Recognize difference between real and make-believe

Classification
  • Patterning
  • Opposites
  • Sorting and matching

Seriation
  • Before and after
  • Arranging several things in order and describing their order relationship (i.e. 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and so forth)

Spatial Relationships
  • Drawing a self-portrait
  • Recreating the spatial relationships they see in pictures and photographs

Science (Experiencing and Representing)
  • Months and seasons
  • Weather
  • Internal anatomy and health
  • Environmental awareness, gardening
  • Weighing and balancing

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