Curriculum – 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

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

Fine Arts

  • Explore a variety of art mediums

Computers

  • Explore use of computer

Music

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

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

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