Pre-K  Curriculum

Language and Speaking Skills

• Tell personal information
• Retell a short story in correct order
• Recall details when being read a story
• Participate in group discussions
• Speak using complete sentences

Reading Skills

• Find the differences between pictures/symbols/letters
• Identify letters in first name
• Begin to identify letter sounds
• Sort pictures according to appropriate groups

Spelling Skills

• Use abstract symbols as written words or letters
• Begin to write letters in name

Writing Skills

• Hold pencil correctly
• Generate own story
• Participate in group activities related to stories
• Write first name

• Follow simple rules
• Use creative thinking skills and imagination to solve problems
• Work cooperatively with and show respect to classmates
• Develop and use rational and critical thinking

Number Insight

• Meaningful count (0-10)
• Read numbers (0-10)
• Rote count to 100

Measurement

• Compare quantities (more, less, equal, unequal)
• Compare objects (size, height, weight, length)
• Compare volume (more, less)
• Compare area (big, small)

Operations

• Count manipulatives

Patterns

• Observe and create different patterns involving everyday life
• Identify and continue a pattern with materials
• Identify basic shapes
• Sort materials by common features
• Create and experience graphs
• Develop own patterns

Art

• Use colors that are real and imaginary in artwork
• Explore and create individual projects with all types of art mediums
• Experiment with creating different textures in playdough and clay
• Develop art appreciation

Science

• Display a curiosity about the world
• Cooperate with classmates to solve problems
• Understand that questioning is part of the scientific process
• Discover ways scientists make observations and solve problems
• Participate in experiments to solve a problem

Development of Concepts

• Identify and explain that descriptions about natural occurrences can be sorted in different ways
• Identify that in the natural world cause-and- effect relationships exist
• Use and design models to understand natural occurrences
• Recognize that in the natural world change occurs
• Identify the relationship between the function of an organism and its structure

Health

• Describe how different people and places can give us help when needed
• Name ways to avoid germs
• Give examples of nutritious snacks
• Describe proper dental care
• Identify reasons for talking to an adult before using any unknown substance

Physical Growth

• Play simple, non-competitive games
• Demonstrate understanding of simple concepts
• (up, down, high, low)
• Display a sense of risk-taking
• Balance body while doing simple stunts
• Catch a large object with two hands
• Ride a tricycle
• Run, jump and hop