Course Title: PreK Three Year Program

Grade               PreK Three
Faculty Name  Mrs. Kathleen Roos

Significant Curriculum Guidelines

Students will:

• Listen with increasing attention
• Understand and follows simple directions
• Enjoy listening and responding to books and CD’s
• Listen to and engages in simple conversation
• Use language for a variety of purposes (e.g., expressing needs and interests)
• Begin to retell the sequence of a story
• Begin to recognize letters
• Become able to move from one space to another in different ways (e.g., running, jumping, hopping, skipping)
• Begin to practice self-help skills (e.g., zipping, buttoning)
• Begin to recognize colors and shapes

Special Features

• The students will participate in morning activities, circle time, centers, story time and snack time.
• The student will develop language and listening skills through stories, music and daily interactions with peers and adults.
• The student will use manipulatives to reinforce colors, shapes and letter recognition.
• The student will participate in art activities to reinforce skill, such as painting, play dough, and shaving cream.
• The student will increase their balance and coordination through outdoor playtime.

Evaluation

• Evaluations are based on observations and participation. 

Course Title: PreK Four Year Program

Grade               PreK Four
Faculty Name  Mrs. Kathleen Roos
Text                  Handwriting Without Tears       
Publisher         Handwriting Without Tears Inc.         
Copyright        2006

Significant Curriculum Guidelines

Students will:

• Listen for different purposes (e.g., to learn what happened in a story, to retrieve instructions, to converse with an adult or a peer).
• Develop a sense of phonemic awareness through the Letter People.
• Listen to and engages in several exchanges of conversations with others.
• Listen to books, tapes and CD, and shows understanding through gestures, actions, and/or language.
• Link new learning experiences and vocabulary to what is already known about a topic.
• Use sentences of increasing length (three or more words) and grammatical complexity in everyday speech.
• Tell a simple narrative, focusing on favorite or most memorable parts.
• Begin to identify high-frequency words.
• Become more able to move in place (e.g., axial movements such as reaching, twisting, turning and bending).
• Begin to coordinate arms and legs (e.g., swinging, stretching) .

Special Features

• The student will develop phonemic awareness through participation in the Letter People Program.
• The student will print his/her own name and begin to print numbers from 0 – 10.
• The student will participate in art activities related to skills as well as holidays.
• The student will become independent with self help skills such as buttoning, zipping packing and unpacking book bag.
• The student will begin to detect sound patterns such as rhymes and alliteration using games and story books.
• The student will participate in morning activities, circle time, centers, story time and snack time.

Evaluation

• Evaluations are ongoing using observation, participation, samples of work and a Progress Report which will be discussed at Conferences.