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Pre-Kindergarten and Kindergarten-1 Curriculum
Children at the Early Childhood Learning Center are exposed to experiences that will aid their development and knowledge in such areas as:
RELIGION
· Awareness of the religious identity of our school
· God as Creator and Father
· Jesus as man and Son of God
· The personal qualities of Jesus which they are called to follow
· The Holy Family, saints and angels
· Religious holidays and celebrations
· Sign of the Cross
· Some prayers and religious songs
SELF-AWARENESS AND SELF-RELIANCE
· Knowing first and last name, address, telephone number, age and birthday
· Recognizing name in print
· Spelling name
· Awareness of five senses
· Knowing body parts
· Knowing left and right
· Using the bathroom independently
· Practicing good hygiene
· Practicing good manners
· Independently selecting materials
· Returning materials to their proper place
· Setting up and packing up snacks and lunch
· Self-control during structured activities as well as free play
· Having a positive self-image
· Developing a sense of being part of a larger group (family, school, community, God’s family)
· Taking pride in work and accomplishments
SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL SKILLS
· Identifying emotions in others and expressing feelings appropriately
· Being respectful of teachers and other children
· Taking care of property
· Sharing, cooperating, helping
· Initiating interaction with other children
· Playing independently
· Problem-solving and compromising
WORK HABITS
· Following directions
· Following daily routines
· Taking and waiting for turns
· Lengthening ability to listen quietly and pay attention when someone is speaking
· Raising hand to speak during structured activity time
· Working cooperatively in small groups
COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT
· Seasons, holidays, and related customs and behaviors
· Seasonal, topical, and classic songs, fingerplays, and rhymes
· Seasonal, topical, and classic stories and books, followed up with recall, discussion, and extension activities
· Recognizing and naming colors and shapes
· Developing understanding of relative size and quantity, and one-to-one correspondence
· Recognizing and categorizing by similarities and differences in color, shape, size, position, and other characteristics
· Days of the week, months of the year, calendar numbering, the year
· Patterns and sequence
· Rote counting
· Number recognition
· Reciting alphabet
· Recognizing capital and lower case letters
· Knowing some letter sounds and words that begin with those sounds
· Communicating in sentences
· Understanding position words, opposites and rhyming words
· Science and social studies concepts: weather, land and water, animals and their habitats, sensory exploration, cooking, physical and natural phenomena, transportation, communities, community helpers, holidays and traditions, and more
FINE MOTOR SKILLS
· Correctly holding and using scissors, crayons, pencils, paint brushes, markers
· Folding, aligning, tracing
· Developing a sense of left to right progression
· Pre-writing skills and letter/number formation
· Engaging in tactile experiences: use of glue, paint, playdough, sand and water
· Dressing skills: buttoning, zipping, snapping, beginning to tie shoes
· Stringing beads and buttons, lacing
· Assembling puzzles
· Manipulating other small objects
GROSS MOTOR SKILLS
· Running, jumping, skipping, hopping, climbing, sliding, balancing, clapping, marching, dancing
· Rolling, passing, tossing, throwing a ball
· Outdoor structured and free play
· Awareness of physical self and space in relation to others
· Stacking and building with a variety of materials