Curriculum Goals for Pre-K Class

 

Emotional Growth

• Provide a safe, healthy and secure environment away from home.

• Provide a welcoming atmosphere of joy and warmth for the child.

• Nurture and become a significant, consistent adult in the child’s life.

• Create an environment that encourages discovery and exploration.

• Provide experiences that will increase child’s positive self-image, sense of competence and pride in accomplishments.

• Provide experiences to develop qualities of responsibility, initiative, and independence and help children learn to face and overcome problems.

 Cognitive Growth

• Provide language-development activities in listening/receptive language and expressive language.

• Provide activities to develop pre-reading skills   a. alphabet recognition   b. visual discrimination   c. matching shapes, letters, words   d. recognizing words and listing words on experience charts   e. writing class stories

• Provide activities to develop pre-writing skills

           a. tactile writing experiences with a variety of writing materials
           b. tracing activities
           c. assembling individual books of beginning story-writing

• Provide activities to develop beginning math skills

           a. matching, sorting, counting concrete objects
           b. grouping objects into sets
           c. number recognition and sequencing of numbers

           d. graphing and number comparisons

• Provide experiences in science

           a. simple experiments
           b. cooking activities
           c. collecting and grouping objects from nature
           d. observation and memory skills

• Provide experiences in social studies

           a. simple map skill activities
           b. historical events in the calendar year

• Facilitate creative and make-believe play

           -with objects
           -about situations
           -assuming pretend roles
           -interacting with other children
           -with puppets and acting out stories

• Provide opportunities to practice and develop reasoning and problem-solving skills

• Provide opportunities to express self through art, music, drama, and creative movement.

• Provide opportunities to begin learning Spanish.

  Social Growth

• Encourage social interaction among all class members.

• Encourage sharing and turn taking.

• Encourage fairness in large and small group game play.

• Encourage verbal expression of emotions and feelings.

• Encourage talking through problems and rationalization.

• Encourage independence, self-control, and self-help skills.

• Encourage resolution of conflicts constructively.

• Encourage conforming to rules and following directions.

• Encourage working cooperatively with others.

• Encourage a sense of initiative.

• Encourage responsibility to maintain classroom environment.

• Encourage respect for authority, property, and the rights of others.

  Physical Growth

• Provide opportunity for large muscle development.

• Provide opportunity for small muscle development.

• Demonstrate and encourage good habits of health and safety.

Spiritual Growth 

• Encourage and model showing love for each other.

• Demonstrate and encourage consciousness of God.

• Guide in development of ecological values and concern for God’s world.

• Help children recognize differences and likenesses in people and to show acceptance.

• Provide learning experiences about Christmas and Easter.

• Introduce rituals of thankfulness and concern.