The children will:

Reading and Language

• Develop oral language competency.

• Speak in complete sentences.

• Express ideas clearly.

• Retell happenings in order.

• Be able to give name, name of street, and phone number.

• Increase speaking vocabulary.

• Enhance listening skills.

• Follow directions in sequence.

• Recognize rhyming words.

• Enjoy stories and poems.

• Listen to peers in conversation.

• Develop pre-reading and reading skills.

• Recognize left and right and top to bottom progression.

• Practice letter recognition.

• Work with opposites.

• Recognize their name.

• Develop writing skills.

• Hold pencil correctly.

• Form letters correctly.

• Write first name.

Math

• Recognize and understand the meaning of the numerals from 0 to 10.

• Identify everyday uses for numbers.

• Practice counting.

• Participate in problem solving through materials and experience.

• Learn geometric shapes.

• Gain knowledge of time including month, day of month, and day of week.

Science

• Be provided with opportunities to gain answers to questions through experimentation, research and problem solving.

• Be provided with a variety of experiences which stimulate his/her curiosity.

• Be exposed to the following units: animal life, sea life, plant life, weather, five senses, road and fire safety, healthy living habits, and recycling.

Social Sciences

• Participate in activities involving the following units: home and family life, community helpers, Indians and Pilgrims, patriotic and national holidays, transportation, communication, and current events.

• Be taken on a variety of field trips relating to units. Potential field trips: Belvedere Plantation, Christmas tree farm, library, fire station, post office, local elementary school, park, etc.

Physical Education

• Be involved in free and organized play.

• Be involved in indoor and outdoor play.

• Be given opportunities to participate in the following:

• Games that involve large and small motor skills.

• Rhythmic activities.

• Creative dramatics.

• Sand, water, and rice activities

• Physical movement with stationary and moveable equipment.

• Manipulative activities: peg boards, puzzles.

• Construction activities: blocks, boxes, legos.

Art, Music, and Dramatic Play

Use the following art media:

• Painting

• Playdough modeling

• Drawing

• Gluing

• Cutting

Music:

Experience music through:

• Singing

• Listening

• Playing musical instruments

• Learn to enjoy music for its own sake.

• Be encouraged to play both informally in learning centers and outdoors and more formally in story time and group activities.

• Have opportunities to use puppets, costumes, and other props to identify with people, times, and places in a make-believe world.

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