Curriculum
Fostering Development and Kindergarten Readiness
Development
Physical
- Through music and movement, I will promote gross motor skills such us: running, jumping, skipping, galloping, catching, and throwing.
- By having fun with sand, clay, play dough, paint and water, children will develop fine motor skills such as grasping, pouring, transferring, cutting and pasting
Social/Emotional
- Listening
- Ability to use language to negotiate and resolve conflicts
- Express feelings and emotions
- Learn to share materials and space
- Taking Turns
- Develop caring relationships with adults and peers
- Follow two and three step directions
Cognitive
- Concentration
- Engagement
- Initiative
- Perseverance
- Attention span
- Listening skills
Kindergarten Readiness
Pre-Literacy Skills
- Memorize and recite the alphabet
- Upper and lower case letter recognition
- Phonics ( beginning, middle and ending sound)
- Clapping syllables
- Clapping sentences
- Word segmentation
- Pre-writing skills
- First and last name recognition
- First name practice
- Proper letter formation both capitals and lower case.
- Vocabulary enhancement
- Rhymes and fingerplays
- Colors
- Days of the week
Mathematics
- Memorizing and counting numbers
- One to one correspondence
- Number recognition
- Proper number formation
- Classification
- Patterns
- Sorting
- Geometrical shapes
- Measuring
- Simple addition and subtraction
Other activities include:
- Science
- Gardening
- Diversity Enrichment topics on African-American, European-American, Asian-American, Native-American, Hispanic-American and Exceptional individuals.