Curriculum
Language
Language Arts
The Alphabet
- learn ABC order
- identify lower & uppercase letters
- build fine motor skills that support printing and eye-hand coordination
- left to right
- top to bottom
- slanted lines
- curved lines
- circles
Manuscript Handwriting
- practicing letter formation
- tracing letters
- copying letters
- write lower & uppercase letters
- random recognizable letters to represent words
Phonics
- sound-symbol relationships and phonic awareness
- identify consonant sounds
- identify short vowel sounds
- recognize words with similar sounds
- introduction of common letter blends
- rhythm & repetition & rhymes
- identify beginning consonants
Reading Readiness
- sequencing
- classification
- identifying things that are the same or different
- comprehension
- matching
- completing sentences
- rhyming words
- associate letters with common objects
- reinforcing left-to-right sequencing
- descriptions
- story building
Listening & Speaking Skills
- develop oral language skills
- participation in discussions, circle time and show & tell
- use language to express ideas and needs
- appropriate volume and speed when speaking
- speaking in turn
- following simple directions and instructions
- distinction between listening for enjoyment and for information
- focused listening and attention (stories, poems, songs)
Word Building
- vocabulary
- word meaning
- visual perception
- opposites
- positional words
Thinking Skills
- association
- visual discrimination
- noticing detail
- observing and continuing patterns
- visual memory
- spatial reasoning
- logical reasoning
- cause & effect
- real versus pretend
- using context clues
- making inferences
- solving riddles
