| The Goals for the children in our Pre-School are:
Understand that God is a loving God
- learn about God
- learn that God loves each one of them
- know that Jesus wants to initiate a personal relationship with each person.
Understand the Bible is a Special Book
- learn that the Bible is God's Word
- know that the Bible is truth. (Stories that are fact, not fantasy)
- discover that Bible truths share character lessons
Use Prayer to talk to God
- learn that prayer is talking to God
- know that they can ask God for help in their lives & in others' lives
Freely share about God (Jesus) and the Bible with others
- know Bible truths and share them with others
Know God created the world
- Enjoy direct experiences with nature
- Know that God wants each person to care for the world
Have a desire to attend church / chapel
- Have a cultivated interest in learning about God
- Perceive the church environment as welcome & safe
Enjoy the process of moving from curiosity to satisfaction in a project because God delights in their work
- Take pride in their own work
- Have positive attitudes about involvement in group activities and projects
Introduce Character Traits
- Courage
- Faith
- Generosity
- Kindness
- Love
- Obedience
- Politeness
- Perseverance
- Respect
- Thankfulness
- Social/Emotional Development:
Begin to function in an environment away from parents. Develop friendships and self confidence. Children will learn to share and develop language to express self and language to aid them in conflict resolution.
Learn to separate from parents with emotional upset
Enjoy & Initiate friendships with a variety of individuals
- Develop friendships with those who may not be the same gender, race, age, or have the same abilities.
- Benefit for the inclusiveness of the emotional culture of the classroom, which celebrates the gifts and talents of all members.
Begin to learn the art of sharing
- Share their own ideas with friends & familiy
- Share toys or other items with friends & family
Begin to show empathy & kindness
- Show and express empathy to others
Use language to express self, developing positive conflict resolution
- Express both positive and negative emotions
Develop self-confidence in self-initiated activities
- Gain confidence through age-appropriate activities
- Have opportunities to share their new skills with others
- Master new skills through encouragement and direction from teachers
Begin to exhibit self-control
- Understand and control their emotions
- Begin to act appropriately, whether or not they are directly interacting with an adult.
- Develop a positive self-image
- Become responsible for own belongings
- Work & play well in a group, beginnings of teamwork
Comfortable participating in group discussions
- Enjoy and participate in child to child to adult interactions
- Communicate effectively using their words
- Be able to attend to other's comments
- Handles change well
Mastering Basic Skill Sets
- 2-3 Step Directions
- 4 Step Directions
- Problem Solving
- Following Directions
- Listening & repeating
- Comprehension
- Develop self-confidence in self-initiated activities
- Prediction (what happens next...)
- Master positional concepts
- Positive conflict development
Begin to acquire and refine fundamental movements of balance, movement and coordination. Begin to develop large and small motor skills and to become aware of own body.
- enjoy rhythm and movement
- begin to use materials and equipment to strengthen fine motor skills
- actively pursue large motor activity
- explore fundamental movements through time, activities, and equipment that is made available to them
- master finger strength and dexterity. (master buttoning, zipping, and lacing)
- write name and master pencil skills
- master scissor skills
- eye-hand coordination continue to develop
Understand that their body is created by God and takes special responsibility to care for it
- be introduced to health and nutrition
- make good food and activity choices
Be able to engage with others in learning activities, including the ability to explore, create, experiment, observe, plan, analyze, reason, investigate, and question.
Enjoy creative expression
- be encouraged to express creativity within their own multiple intelligences and are provided materials for this expression
- Comfortable to work with mediums that express the creative element for process art
- Write songs and stories (dictate)
- Use imagination in dramatic center play
- Find creative solutions to problems that arise during center play with help from adults
Numeracy
Understand math, vocabulary, concepts, and directed activities.
- Counting
- Recognize Value & Write (#1-12)
- Sorting
- Matching
- Sequencing
- One-to-One Correspondence
- Positional Concepts
- Serration (3 Sequences visual activity)
- Small, Medium, & Large
- Classifying with two attributes
- Patterning
- Grafting
- Shapes
Science
Understand elementary science concepts:
- Discover the world around us
- Visual perception
- Weather
- Chemical Reactions
- Magnets (attraction/repelling)
- Conservation
- Visual & Auditory Discrimination
- Food Groups
- Watching Things Grow
- Natural Laws of consequence
(sink & float, light & dark, heavy & light)
Language & Literacy
Understand the importance and use of language
- Be able to participate in receptive language activities using literature as the
foundational tool
- Desire to look at books with text and illustrations
- Engage in language experiences that foster growth in language proficiency
Cultivated pre-writing skills in the context of emergent literacy
- Able to write own name
- Able to recognize & write alphabet letters
(Upper & Lower case)
- Spontaneously choose to use writing implements
- Understand the print carries meaning
Be aware of different letter sound
- Begin to hear rhyming sounds in prominent words
- Become phonemically aware through classroom activities designed for that purpose
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