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 We believe that
children at this age are eager to learn and find the learning
process exciting. By providing a positive learning environment
that children can manipulate and explore, we believe that each
child can develop to his or her full potential and feel good
about themselves as they gain confidence and knowledge.
SELF-CONCEPT
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Build self-esteem
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Provide opportunities
for children to initiate activities, develop, and demonstrate
control of their bodies and self-help skills
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Allow time for
children to talk about themselves, their families, what they
see, do and like
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Provide opportunities
for self-expression through language, dramatics, art, music, and
play
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Encourage independence
in children
THINKING / REASONING /
PROBLEM SOLVING
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 Extend children’s
thinking and learning during activities by adding new materials,
asking open-ended questions, offering ideas or suggestions,
joining in their play, and providing assistance in solving
problems
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Help recognize the
rights, feelings, and property of others
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Encourage children to
play and work well independently and in small groups
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Use positive
techniques of guidance to help children achieve self-control
ART / MUSIC /
CREATIVITY
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Experimentation with
different media, materials, colors, and balance
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Adult made models,
patterns, and pre-drawn forms are infrequently used
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Singing, playing
instruments, introduction to rhythm, songs, rhymes, finger
plays, musical games
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Provide opportunities
for dancing, movement activities, and creative dramatics
HEALTH AND SAFETY
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 Encourage cleanliness
and good health practices, such as hand washing, brushing teeth,
getting enough rest and exercise
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Encourage safety
practices in and out of school
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Child learns full
name, address, phone number, and 911 emergency number; safety
and emergency procedures
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Discuss and practice
good nutrition
PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT
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Large motor skills:
running, jumping, skipping, climbing, throwing, catching,
kicking, balancing, riding tricycles, obstacle courses, activities
using songs or tapes
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Small motor skills:
cutting, pasting, painting, using play dough, manipulating small
objects such as puzzles, origami, weaving, sewing, etc.
MATH
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Use concrete
activities to build and practice concepts
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Patterns
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Sorting and
classifying by color, shape, size, and other characteristics
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Discuss daily and
weekly routines in terms of time concepts, seasons
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Calendar: Learn days
of week, months, holidays
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Comparing: Measuring,
relationship (More than/less than, heavier/lighter,
longer/shorter, bigger/smaller, etc.)
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Counting: orally,
counting objects
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Numeral recognition:
recognizing the symbols 0-25, matching the symbols 0-25 to
groups of objects
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Recognizing sets of
numbers, beginning addition
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Writing numeral
symbols correctly
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Encourage water and
sand play
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Exposure to beginning
place value
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Beginning graphing
skills
SCIENCE
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Gardening, observe
natural events such as seeds growing
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Experimenting, problem
solving
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Take care of classroom
pets and plants, observe natural life cycles
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Foster awareness of
the environment, (our responsibility to it and the changes that
can and do occur in it)
SOCIAL STUDIES
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 Become aware of the
local community as well as other communities near and far
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Respect cultural
diversity by: providing materials, images, and experiences that
reflect different cultures – celebrating holidays of various
cultures, reading books and looking at pictures about various
cultures, inviting visitors to share arts, crafts, music, dress,
and stories of different cultures
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Become familiar with
maps and the globe
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Become aware of
past/historical communities
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Take field trips to
local museums, theater groups, community building, etc.
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Take walks around the
neighborhood
LANGUAGE AND LITERACY
DEVELOPMENT
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Promote a love for
quality literature and reading books through a print-rich
environment
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Daily stories, poems,
rhymes, finger plays told orally, using books, flannel board,
puppets
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Provide opportunities for acting out stories-creative
dramatics and puppet shows
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Provide time for
conversations: build questioning and answering skills
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Encourage children’s
interest in writing with daily writing activities
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Increase vocabulary
through discussion, writing words, and labeling
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Learn correct letter
formation, names, and all associated sounds for letters and
letter combinations (phonograms)
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Learn how to blend
sounds together to read and write words
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Learn how to put words
together in sentences
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