Four and Five Year Old 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

Social and Emotional Skills

•  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

•  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

Attitudes and Habits

•  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

•  Introduction of a calendar

•  Compare how clothing differs because of the changes in weather

•  Recognize that accepting responsibility and having rules is important

•  Describe the different ways families celebrate special events or holidays

•  Demonstrate appropriate ways to communicate wants or needs

•  Use different movements (clap, stomp, pat, jump) and play a steady beat with a group

•  Sing, using voices that are fast or slow, loud or soft

•  Change voice to match different pitches

•  Make up own songs