Pre-K 4 Curriculum

Writing Skills

• proper holding of pencil
• tracing capital/lowercase letters
• forming capital letters
• forming their name in capital letters
• introduction to forming lowercase letters
• forming words with dictation by the teacher

Math Readiness Skills

• identifying sets of objects
• creating sets of objects
• size differentiation and relationship
• identifying and creating shapes
• classifying by color, shape, size, etc.
• number recognition
• forming numerals
• logical reasoning
• patterns
• rote counting

Literacy and Language

• exposure to books, storytelling and poetry
• discussion of the literature that was read
• dictating stories to be written by teacher
• recalling details in stories
• re-telling stories
• sequencing (what happens first, next, last ...)

Reading Readiness

• identifying and naming uppercase letters
• noticing details
• matching, comparing, opposites, same/different
• directionality (top/bottom, in/out, over/under ...)
• name recognition (their own and classmates)
• working left to right
• word recognition
• vocabulary

Beginning Phonics

• sound/symbol association
• beginning consonants
• auditory discrimination
• rhyming words

Sensory Experience

• playing in various textures at their table and in the sensory table: shaving cream, play-doh, pudding, beans, rice, sand ...

Religion

• focus on Jesus Chris and His love for us
• learning about important biblical figures using Bible stories and activites (New Testament and Old Testament) introducing and reciting various prayers

Bible songs

• learning about Mary and the importance of The Annunciation

Music and Movement

• moving their bodies to various rhythms while listening to music
• stopping their bodies and "freezing" when music stops

Creative Art

• using various mediums to create and construct projects

Science

• curiosity
• experimentation, observation, investigation, evaluation
• cause and effect
• making predictions

Physical Education

• practicing/using gross motor skills with our P.E. teacher

Music

• exposure to the various instruments, sounds, notes, songs, and rhythms with our Music teacher

Journal Writing

• forming pictures/letters to represent their ideas/feelings
• dictating what was "written" to the teacher