Preschool Curriculum
The curriculum for preschool is implemented through the following distinct areas:
- Practical Life
- Sensorial
- Language
- Math
- Cultural Studies
These areas include extensions and variations for children three to five years of age.
Practical Life
The activities in these areas are essential in the direct development of order, coordination, concentration and independence. The indirect aim of the Practical Life activities is to prepare the children for academic readiness.
- Attention Span-all activities of Practical Life
- Sensory Acuity-sorting by size, color, shape
- Fine Motor - tying shoe laces - cutting with scissors
- Social Development - serving snack to self - serving snack to others
Sensorial
The activities in this area develop the child's sensory acuity.
- Visual Discrimination
- Size: Pink Tower
- Length: Red Rods
- Width: Broad Stairs
- Shape: Geometric Solids/Cabinet
- Tactile - Thermic tablets
- Auditory - Sound cylinders
- Gustatory (taste) - testing bottles
- Olfactory - smelling
Mathematics
The math area, children develop the concept of quantity and symbol through the use of concrete manipulative materials that are sequential.
- Number Rods / Sandpaper Numbers
- Spindle Boxes
- Counter Games
- Golden Beads - Decimal System
- The Short Bead Stair
- The teen Boards / The Ten Boards
- Sequencing numbers from 1 - 100
- Introduce static / dynamic addition and subtraction
- Introduce application of mathematical concepts - Bank Game
- Practice measurement of length and width
Language
Although language is a distinct area, it is an integral part of all the other areas in the advanced preschool classroom. The language area offers children an opportunity to develop reading writing readiness skills with sequence of materials and progresses to and activities:
- Phonics
- Identify short and long vowel sounds and basic sight words
- Identify beginning and ending consonants
- Identify consonants diagrams
- Apply skills to sound out words
- Blend sound to read words
- Comprehension
- State the main idea of the story read
- Recall information read
- Draw conclusion from story
- Vocabulary
- Identify rhyming words, opposites and compound words
- Recall sequencing of events in story
- Classify objects
- Writing
- Refine skills in printing of both uppercase and lowercase letters
- Write simple related sentences using phonetic skills
Cultural Studies
The cultural areas includes materials and activities in History, Geography, Science, Art and Music.
- History
- Sense of time
- Calendar / Time lines
- Geography
- Land forms
- Continents
- Countries of North America
- Science
- Physical
- Geology/Astronomy
- Biological
- Botany
- Zoology
Art and Music
Children will develop an appreciation for art and music and the cultural activities presented throughout the year.
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