Curriculum Goals for Early 4 year olds.

 Basics:

• Knows first and last name, age, gender, birthday, and phone number.

• Speaks clearly so people other than their own family and friends can understand them.

• Feeds themselves neatly using a fork or a spoon.

• Cleans up their messes, food, and toys.

• Potty trained, uses the restroom without help, flushes the toilet, wipes themselves, and remembers to wash hands & face.

• Comfortable being away from parent or caregiver and be comfortable with the teacher and other children.

• Understands that in school, it is important to listen to the teacher.

• Knows classroom schedule and routine.

• Carries their belongings to and from schools and puts them in their proper place.

• Able to get lunchbox, set out food, and open lunch items. Knows to eat healthy food first & sit while eating.

• Able to throw trash in the garbage can.

Social Skills:

• Understands other people have rights and feelings just as they do, and are not as egocentric.

• Uses words effectively to express needs, feelings, and thoughts in a socially acceptable way.

• Asks questions, holds a conversation and makes eye contact when talking with teacher & others.

• Sits quietly for at least 10 minutes.

• Plays with a toy, concentrate on a task and listens to stories.

• Keeps occupied with toys and socialize with others without help.

• Plays peacefully with other children, share, listen to their peers, and use conflict resolution.

• Can follow 2-3 step directions and follows class work with a teacher.

• Beginning to understand the concept of games (winning/losing) and being able to play & follow rules of the game.

• Beginning to facilitate games with peers, making rules for the games, & communicates the idea of game.

• Able to stay on their mat calmly and quietly.

• Knows the difference between happy, sad, and mad.

• Say please and thank you.

• Respects others treat other with kindness and uses manners.

Language Development:

• Uses language effectively to express wants and needs.

• Can speak in sentences using 6+ words.

• Can recognize letters and familiar words.

• Learning rhyming words.

• Beginning to print own first name and last name.

• Is asking a lot of questions.; who, what, when, where, why, how, etc.

• Enjoys sharing information with adults and other children.

• Tells stories, explains what happens, and gives details.

Academic Skills:

Reading/Writing

• Holds a pencil, crayon, marker, paint brush, and knows how to use scissors.

• Understands concept of coloring, can color in the lines, and use more than one color on coloring activities.

• Recognizes the colors: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, pink, black, brown, grey, & white.

• Able to write first name and recognize the letters.

• Learning to write last name and recognize the letters in it.

• Knows alphabet phonics and vowel sounds.

• Mastering alphabet recognition

• Can look at a picture, tell you what is happening in it, or make up a story about it.

• Beginning to memorize and copy simple sight words.

• Beginning to show logic, thinking process, asking more detailed questions, testing boundaries, and more realistic dramatic play, i.e., house, police, school, etc.

Math

• Able to count at least to 25.

• Mastering numbers recognition, 1-20.

• Recognizes the 8+ shapes.

• Can create and recognize patterns with colors & shapes.

• Can arrange items or pictures into small, medium, and large & sequencing.

• Introduction to ordinal numbers (1st-5th), before & after, more & less.

• Learning to add simple math problems (1-5) using numbers or items.

• Introduction to measurement.

• Understands the concept of morning, afternoon, and night.

• Beginning to understand the concept of number, size, & position.

Science:

• Teachers individually prepare and implement the science curriculum to fit the needs and learning of their age group.

Motor Development:

• Gaining control over large motor skills by walking a straight line, walking backward, running, skipping, hoping on one foot, jumping, throwing and catching a ball, & climbing.

• Gaining control over small motor skills by cutting a straight line, printing name with a pencil, thread small beads on a string, form recognizable shapes out of modeling clay, etc.

• Learning how to tie, button, snap, zip, and buckle different items.

• Able to get in line and follow the leader in a line.

Science:

• Exploring different areas of discovery in physical, biological, and environmental sciences.

• Experimenting in different areas of discovery in physical, biological, and environmental sciences.

• Processes and thinks about the world around them.

• Questions asked, observations made, & conclusions discovered about various topics and experiments.

• Reasoning, problem solving, & team work.

Spiritual Development:

• Listens to Bible truths & responds to questions relating to Bible truth.

• Retells Bible truth.

• Encouraged to act out the Bible truth.

• Remembers key people from Bible.

• Sings Bible songs relating to Bible truth.

• Beginning to memorize a short Bible Verse each week.

• Knows God is the creator of all things.

• Prays before meals, during circle, and for friends.

• Learning Jesus is God’s son and God loves us so much He sent His son to die for our sins.

• Knows that just as God loves us, we need to be show love to one another through our words and actions.