Motor Skills

Gross, Fine, and Bilateral motor skills

• Run, jump, skip, hop, gallop
• Kick, catch, throw
• Proper grip of pencil, crayon, marker
• Correct use of scissors
• Trace shapes and patterns
• Stack items
• Complete simple puzzles
• Use tweezers to pick up small items.
• Zip, snap, button
• String beads and lace

Social Skills

• Secure in leaving Mom/Dad/Caregiver
• Adapt without anxiety
• Empathize/Emotionally intelligent
• Problem solve for simple conflict resolution
• Express emotions appropriately with words and positive behaviors
• Self-advocate
• Work cooperatively and respectfully with others

Cognitive Development

Literacy

• Recognize letter/sound correspondence
• Understand that letters are symbols
• Identify upper and lower case letters and numbers(1-10)
• Write letters, numbers (1-10), first and last name
• Recognize that words have meaning and connect to other words to form thoughts and express ideas
• Identify and create rhyming patterns
• Foster a love of literature
• Develop an interest in reading related activities

Math

• Identify numbers of objects and counting from 1 through 10
• Sort and sequence
• 1 to 1 correspondence
• Identify more or less
• Understand the use of comparative words (big / little, short / long, slow / fast
•  Create and repeat simple patterns

Science

• Introduce life cycle of animals and plants
• Identify types of weather
• Recognize seasons and animal adaptations
• Experiment
  • Floating and sinking
  • Building with different materials
  • Color mixing
  • Creating and observing chemical reactions (vinegar and baking soda)