During the school year your child will work on the following skills. These guidelines are in correlation with the Christian Preschool Association and the Sunshine State Standards. Your child will be evaluated on the following skills according to the development expectations of his or her individual assessment. Therefore, we ask that you avoid pressuring your child or becoming overly anxious about their efforts.  Remember they are trying their hardest and praise and encouragement are all they need to start them on life’s long journey into education.

Social Development Skills:

• Follow directions 

• Stays on task

• Plays well with others

• Shows good sportsmanship

• Knows first and last names

• Knows parents names

• Knows phone number

• Knows birthday

• Participates in group setting 

• Works independently

• Stands up for themselves

• Takes responsibility for own actions

• Learns difference between thumbs up and thumbs down choices

• Understands time management

• Sharing and taking turns

• Manners (Please, Thank You, Excuse Me)

• Weekly classroom jobs

Gross Motor Lessons:

• Bounces/Catches ball

• Skips

• Jump rope

• Hops on one foot

• Balance beam

• Coordinate large muscles

Fine Motor/Cognitive Skills Lessons:

• Hold pencil correctly

• Hold scissors correctly

• Cuts with ease

• Uses templates for tracing/stencils

• Proper use of glue and glue sticks

• Knows left from right

• Uses puzzles, beads, patterns, legos, and matching games

• Forms letters correctly

• Learns days of the week

• Learns months of the year

• Recites Pledge of Allegiance

Math Lessons: 

• Recognizes numbers 1-10 

• Rote count to at least 10

• Writes numbers 1-10 

• Counts tally marks

• Creates and interprets simple graphs

• Creates simple patterns

• Knows geometric shapes

• Understands measuring

• Sorting by color, shape, texture and size

• Begins to add objects to 10 

• Begins to subtract objects from 10

• Counts sets of objects to 10

Reading Lessons: 

• Recognizes upper case letters

• Recognizes lower case letters

• Knowledge of all letter sounds

• Begins to learn short vowels

• Begins to learn long vowels

• Begins to blend sounds

• Can sequence letters alphabetically

• Recognizes rhymes

• Retell a story in sequence

• Communicates thoughts clearly

• Demonstrates left to right progression

• Demonstrates top to bottom progression of letter formation

• Begins sight word recognition

• Uses inventive spelling in journaling

• Understanding reading concepts through art

• Phonics with show and share for letter of the week

Science Lessons:

• Lifecycles of frogs, butterflies, and pumpkins

• Sink or Float?

• Has knowledge of scientific experiments

• Make predictions

• Volcano models (paper and model with clay)

• Planets and solar system

• Earth’s geographical make up

• Endangered animals

• Farmer Jay visits to campus (Vegetable Gardening, Beneficial Bugs, Snakes, etc.)

Social Studies:

• Has knowledge of geographic areas

• Celebrates the similarities and differences amongst people and families

• Study of countries

• Polar studies (Antarctica and Artic)

• Learns basic Spanish

Christian Education Lessons:

• Participation in prayer

• Participation in Christian music

• Participation in chapel 

• Develops good self-concept as a child of God and a person of value

• Opportunities to know the creative power of God and enjoy the world

• Share in the joys and benefits of the Christian community

• Experience God’s love and forgiveness through teachers and the church as a community of faith.

• Opportunities to experience trust of their environment and teachers through boundaries set for them and know of God’s love for all of God’s creation, including people of different cultures, races, and religions. 

• Opportunities to build ideas, feelings, and understandings related to the Christian faith through bible stories, pictures, songs, bible verses, and play activities that uplift religious meanings.

• Bible themed art centers and stories. 

Music Education Lessons:

• Experiences with sound and music

• Opportunities for singing

• Rhythmic activities and movement with music 

• Participating in musical games

• Experience listening and responding to different types of music

• Introduction of rhythm instruments, scarves, parachute, etc. 

Your child will also be introduced to a variety of thematic lessons throughout the school year.

These lessons will include:

• My school family

• School rules

• Getting to know you

• Thanksgiving-food drive for our Weekend Food Bag Program

• Tour of our food bank/Packing of Weekend Food Bags

• Cooking classes

• Spanish classes

• Music and movement classes

• The Christmas story and program

• Advent adventure

• Christmas caroling at a local nursing home

• Visit to the pumpkin patch

• Snow day at School

• Valentine’s Day

• Healthy habits

• Dental visit

• Dr. Seuss

• St. Patrick’s Day

• Easter

• Mother’s spa day

• Dad’s Olympics

• Caterpillars and butterflies

• Math vocabulary book

• Numbers 1-20 book

• Alphabet writing book

• Journal book (writing with prompts)

• Planets book

• Rainforest book

• Endangered animals book

• Around the world/countries book