CONCEPTS INTRODUCED THROUGHOUT THE YEAR
- Recognize and name the letters A – Z
- Begin rudiments of phonetic skills
- Number recognition 1 – 10
- Identify 11 colors – red, yellow, blue, green, orange, purple, black, brown, white, pink and gray
- Shape recognition – circle, square, triangle, rectangle, diamond, oval and heart
- Exposure to a wide variety of art media
- Develop scissor skills
- Develop visual and auditory memory skills
- Exposure to various “Language” media ; stories, books, songs, poems, fingerplays, puppet activities and fables.
- Develop small muscle control and eye/hand coordination
- Continuing development of large muscle control, body coordination, balance, spatial relationships and right/left
- Classification skills – matching, sorting, seriation, one to one correspondence, opposites and tactual discrimination
- Develop self help skills
- Develop sense of natural world
- Develop sense of community/cooperation through group games
- Develop sense of rhythm and music