Preschool Curriculum Guidelines

Religion

• Develop an understanding, appreciation and respect for all of God’s creations through stories and Bible readings 

• Demonstrate a Christian response to others through daily opportunities to share, listen, show gratitude, apologize, forgive, cooperate, and be responsible for his/her work.

Language Arts 

• Experience opportunities for listening to stories and nursery rhymes.

• Learn to listen to and follow directions

• Begin to understand left-right and top-bottom eye movement.

• Learn various thematic/seasonal finger plays, rhymes, and songs.

• Dictate simple stories.

• Retell stories.

• Speak in clear and complete sentences.

• Use clay, paste, scissors, pencils, and crayons.

• Repeat basic strokes l/0.

• Identify primary colors and their names.

• Print first name in upper case letters.

• Begin to recognize some alphabet letters and sounds.

Mathematics

• Recognize numbers 1-5.

• Count objects 1-5

• Rote count 1-10.

• Be exposed to the concepts of few-many, more-less and how many.

• Be exposed to the concept of time (calendar, clocks, sequence) and the concept of yesterday, today, tomorrow, last night, etc.

• Be exposed to measurement (heavy/light; bigger/smaller; more/less, etc.).

• Begin to sort by attributes: size, color, and shape.

• Be exposed to shapes (circle, square, rectangle, triangle).

• Be exposed to positions (over-under, before-after, up-down, etc.).

Science

• Weather and seasonal changes

• Sun, moon, stars, night, day

• Seeds and plants

• Animals: living and prehistoric

• Non-living things: rocks, shells, water, sand, and soil

• Care of the environment

• The five senses: hearing, seeing, tasting, smelling, and feeling

Social Studies

• Develop a sense of personal and social responsibility.

• Learn manners (say please and thank you, greet others appropriately).

• Learn that his/her actions have consequences.

• Observe and respect different cultures and traditions.

• Become aware of the need to take care of the environment.

• Be exposed to national and cultural holidays and the people and places they represent.

• Cooperate as a member working in the community.

• Learn that there are helpers in the community (police, firefighters, doctors, nurses, etc).

Art

• Value his/her own artistic expression encouraging creativity.

• Learn the basic skills of coloring, cutting, gluing, and painting.

• Appreciate the work of others.

Music 

• Develop a happy, positive attitude toward music.

• Establish good listening habits.

• Move to music through participation in singing, games, folk dances, and free and directed rhythmic responses, such as clapping, marching, skipping, swaying, etc.

Physical Education

• gain physical and social skills essential to live an active life

• develop and value their physical fitness and

• exhibit positive character traits during physical activity.