Preschool

Religion

• Participate in daily prayer
• Exploring the Catholic faith (Holidays, historical figures, and symbols)
• Explore and participate in Mass
• Discovering God’s Word

Pre-Reading Skills

• Identify Letters A-Z (upper and lower case)
• Identify Letter and Sound Relationship
• Listen to and experience a variety of Children’s literature
• Recognize that print has meaning
• Use text and pictures to make predictions about story
• Listen to one-syllable words and tell the beginning and ending sounds
• Identify and make oral rhymes

Vocabulary

• Identify and sort common pictures/words into categories
• Describe common objects and events

Writing

• Develop pencil and scissor skills
• Write from left to right
• Write own name using capital and lower case letters
• Write most letters upper and lowercase
• Write stories using drawings
• Write (unconventionally) to express own meaning

Speaking and Listening

• Follow one and two-step directions
• Listen when others are speaking
• Look at listeners most of the time
• Describe people, places, things, locations, and actions
• Recite poems, rhymes, and songs
• Retell a story or experience in sequence

Mathematics

• Count, recognize, represent, name and order numbers to 30
• Compare 2 or more sets and identify which is more than or less than
• Estimate the number of objects up to 20
• Identify penny, nickel, and dime
• Sort a collection of objects by attributes
• Identify and create patterns
• Understand adding and taking one away
• Sort 2 and 3 dimensional shapes
• Recognize and name these basic shapes and possibly more: square, triangle, circle,rectangle, cube, and cone
• Compare lengths of similar objects

Science

• Weather
• Seasons
• Biology in the fish tank
• Exploration of Bugs
• Experimentation
• Estimation
• Discover the five senses
• Explore different types of sounds
• Look at sinking vs. floating

Computers

• Explore use of computer

Social Sciences

• Explore historical figures and holidays
• Describe rules (Classroom, school, home)
• Demonstrate fundamental values: respect, responsibility, trustworthiness, caring honest, fairness, and citizenship

Geography

• Recite address and phone number
• Identify emergency numbers
• Explore community helpers
• Explore our community, state, and country
• Explore fire Safety
• Explore Stranger Danger

Physical Development

• Participate in movement activities that promote physical development, cooperation, and social skills

Health

• Identify behaviors that are safe or harmful
• Explore concepts that promote a healthy lifestyle

Fine Arts

• Explore a variety of art mediums

Music

• Participate in and listen to a wide variety of songs, rhymes, rhythm, movement, and singing games