Curriculum Goals for Pre-K Class
Emotional Growth
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Provide a safe, healthy and secure environment away from home.
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Provide a welcoming atmosphere of joy and warmth for the child.
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Nurture and become a significant, consistent adult in the child’s life.
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Create an environment that encourages discovery and exploration.
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Provide experiences that will increase child’s positive self-image, sense of competence and pride in accomplishments.
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Provide experiences to develop qualities of responsibility, initiative, and independence and help children learn to face and overcome problems.
Cognitive Growth
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Provide language-development activities in listening/receptive language and expressive language.
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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
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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
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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
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Provide experiences in science
a. simple experiments
b. cooking activities
c. collecting and grouping objects from nature
d. observation and memory skills
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Provide experiences in social studies
a. simple map skill activities
b. historical events in the calendar year
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Facilitate creative and make-believe play
-with objects
-about situations
-assuming pretend roles
-interacting with other children
-with puppets and acting out stories
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Provide opportunities to practice and develop reasoning and problem-solving skills
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Provide opportunities to express self through art, music, drama, and creative movement.
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Provide opportunities to begin learning Spanish.
Social Growth
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Encourage social interaction among all class members.
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Encourage sharing and turn taking.
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Encourage fairness in large and small group game play.
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Encourage verbal expression of emotions and feelings.
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Encourage talking through problems and rationalization.
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Encourage independence, self-control, and self-help skills.
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Encourage resolution of conflicts constructively.
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Encourage conforming to rules and following directions.
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Encourage working cooperatively with others.
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Encourage a sense of initiative.
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Encourage responsibility to maintain classroom environment.
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Encourage respect for authority, property, and the rights of others.
Physical Growth
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Provide opportunity for large muscle development.
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Provide opportunity for small muscle development.
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Demonstrate and encourage good habits of health and safety.
Spiritual Growth
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Encourage and model showing love for each other.
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Demonstrate and encourage consciousness of God.
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Guide in development of ecological values and concern for God’s world.
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Help children recognize differences and likenesses in people and to show acceptance.
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Provide learning experiences about Christmas and Easter.
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Introduce rituals of thankfulness and concern.