Afterschool Program
June 4, 2022
Preschool Program
June 4, 2022
Prekindergarten program for ages 4 – 5 Years
In pre K programs, teachers are focused on preparing children for their next big adventure, kindergarten! We know what a child needs to be successful in the next stage of learning. So, we make sure that every child is prepared for a number of academic activities that may be introduced in a kindergarten setting.
And, our pre K programs also make sure they are on track with developing socially, cognitively, communicatively, and physically. This way, both you and your pre-kindergartener have the confidence needed to start on a new academic journey with a new school the following year.
In pre K programs, teachers are focused on preparing children for their next big adventure, kindergarten! We know what a child needs to be successful in the next stage of learning. So, we make sure that every child is prepared for a number of academic activities that may be introduced in a kindergarten setting.
Tracking Your Child’s Progress Throughout the PreKindergarten Program
Goals
- Expresses feelings
- Initiates activities with another child
- Cooperates with other children, with assistance
- Negotiates with peers
- Approaches other children positively
- States a position with a reason
- Shows empathy
- Uses pretend play to explore, practice, and understand social roles
- Engages in cooperative play
- Successfully transitions from one activity/ setting to the next
- Shows concern for fairness
- Describes own basic physical characteristics
- Enjoys the process of creating
- Asks others for information
- Investigates and experiments with materials
- Uses “Why” to get information
- Develops personal interest
- Joins a play activity already in progress
- Remains engaged in activities for at least 10 minutes
- Makes up words, songs, or stories
- Engages in extensive pretend play
- Tells others about events that happened in the past
- Works out problems
- Focuses on the meaning of words rather than grammar
- Uses sentences
- Responds appropriately to a request
- Has a receptive vocabulary of a several hundred words
- Asks the meaning of unfamiliar words
- Uses multiple words to explain an idea
- Speech is entirely intelligible
- Describes a task
- Uses past tense
- Responds to questions with verbal answers or gestures
- Engages in conversation
- Tells a short make-believe story, with assistance
- Begins to draw representational figures
- Identifies some individual letter in a text
- Recognizes own printed name
- Uses pictures to predict a story
- Identifies major characters in story
- Imitates common reading activities
- Crawls through a play tunnel or under tables
- Throws a ball overhand with some accuracy
- Catches large balls with two hands
- Kicks a ball forward
- Gallops with skill
- Uses various drawing and art materials
- Cutting skills progress from inaccurate cutting to proper grasp with some degree of accuracy
- Completes increasingly complex puzzles
- Writes name
- Begins to write some recognizable letters or numbers
- Demonstrates concepts through movement
- Improves eye-hand coordination
- Covers mouth when coughing
- Washes and dries hands independently
- Takes care of toileting needs and asks for assistance when needed
- Asks “why” questions to show effort at understanding causation
- Organizes objects by more than one pre-selected characteristic
- Applies new information or vocabulary to an activity
- Generates a strategy based on one learning event and extends it to a new learning opportunity
- Uses symbols or pictures as representation for oral language
- Engages in complex make-believe play
- Names numerals up to 20 or more
- Understands that numbers represent quantity
- Recognizes the names of some numerals
- Counts at least five objects in one to one correspondence without assistance
- Tells what number comes before or after a given number up to ten
- Estimates size
- Labels objects using size words
- Creates, builds, or draws shapes
- Orders objects from smallest to largest
- Creates patterns
- Classifies objects
- Uses positional words
- Makes predictions
- Retells a simple story or event in roughly sequential order
- Knows first and last name
- Names address and telephone number
- Participates in music experiences
