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TO AID YOUR CHILD’S DEVELOPMENT, WE TEACH THE
4 YEAR OLDS:
Social/Personal Development:
· Separates from parent(s)
· Personal Independence
· Knows manners
· Respectful of others and property
· Self awareness
· Cooperation (works well in small groups)
· Communication with peers and adults
· Shares
· Positive self-image
· Expresses feelings positively
· Increase attention span
· Transitions
· Identifies feelings
· Introduction to health and safety
Visual Motor Skills: Using Hand Writing without Tears
· Develop gross and fine motor skills
· Body coordination
· Holds pencil/crayon correctly
· Can trace basic strokes, shapes, letters and numbers
· Can distinguish basic strokes (forward and backward. Etc.)
· Introduction to cutting on lines(straight and curved)
· Develop hand-eye coordination using manipulatives
· Copying shapes and symbols
· Eye-hand coordination
· Body coordination
Language/Reading Skills: Using “Reading Street” by Scott Foresman
· Likeness and difference
· Memory (recall)
· Classification
· Labeling
· Speech and language comprehension
· Visual and auditory discrimination
· Sequencing
· Opposites
· Rhyming Words
· Alphabet recognition
· Introduction and recognition of sight words
Number/Conceptual Development: Using “Mathmatics in Action” by McMillan
· Indentify Numerals
· Associating Numerals and Objects
· Learning time concepts (calendar and seasons)
· Identifying coins
· Understand Left and Right
· Counting
· Fraction Concepts
· Graphing
· Measurement
· Patterns
· Problem Solving
· Verbally counting in sequence
· Shape recognition/Geometric Concepts
· Distinguish top from bottom
· Learning Ordinal position (1st, 2nd, etc...)
· Following more than one direction given in sequence
· Classifying, estimation, sorting, logic and reasoning,
· Number concept
Technology
- Daily access to 21st century interactive whiteboards in the classroom to provide a hands- on learning experience in utilizing kid friendly websites, global resources and computer skills individualized to accommodate all students and subjects.
Religion-
- Children will experience prayer at their level on a daily basis and Gospel values will be incorporated into each lesson across the curriculum. We marvel and seek to explore God’s love as shown in nature, creatures, and the whole universe. Our text is Christ Our Life by Loyola Press
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