Academic Goals
Preschool
Children will have the opportunity to explore our goals for academic development at their own levels.
• Participate in circle time, games, and activities
• Interact with peers at an age-appropriate level
• Introduction to uppercase letters ~ start to recognize
• Trace and form uppercase letters
• Spell first name and know last name
• Know parents' first names
• Know basic shapes
• Know primary and secondary colors
• Draw stick people with head, arms, and legs
• Listening comprehension ~ listening to short story and answer 1-2 simple questions
• Concentrate in small and large group activities
• Start to work independently
• Know familiar Bible stories and adapting the message to today's environment
Pre-K
Children will have the opportunity to explore our goals for academic development at their own levels.
• Recognize and write upper and lowercase letters
• Understand the concept of phonics (letter sounds)
• Comprehend stories, directions, etc. (listening skills)
• Count and write from 1-30
• Recognize and form all basic shapes
• Recognize all primary and secondary colors
• Write first name
• Express their language skills through positive interaction
• Learn their phone number
• Bounce and catch a ball
• Skip, hop, jump, gallop, and ride a tricycle
• Follow patters at their cognitive level
• Sort and classify
• Understand the concepts of opposites, rhyming, similarities and differences
• Build their fine motor skills through cutting, coloring, play dough, dot-to-dot with numbers, Legos, etc.
• Participate in group or circle time activities
Kindergarten
Children will have the opportunity to explore our goals for academic development at their own levels.
• Recognize and write upper and lowercase alphabet
• Recognize, count, and write 1-100
• Count by twos, fives, tens
• Know phonetic sounds of all letters
• Know simple sight words
• Write full name
• Know address, maybe write full address
• Know and write phone number
• Know names and sight spelling of colors, shapes, and numbers
• Beginning time-o'clock, half past the hour (10:00 and 10:30)
• Color inside the lines of medium and small pictures
• Listening comprehension - listens to and answers questions about a short story
• Start simple math concepts - addition, subtraction, 1-10
• Dot-to-dot 1-50 and A-Z
• Know short and long vowels
• Read simple sentences (The cat sat on the mat.)
• Read difficult sentences (The cat sat on the big red mat and ate some food.)
