Children will develop autonomy and a confidence to experience new social situations by learning to:

• Share
• Take turns
• Respect, tolerate and understand differences between self and others
• Celebrate differences and unique gifts of self and others
• Express feelings and ideas, listens to feelings and ideas
• Develop empathy skills
• Learn to take responsibility
• Cooperate with others and accept limits
• Learn self-control and accept logical consequences
• Develop self-esteem, positive sense of self, confidence
• Practice solving problems alone and with peers, teachers
• Develop pride in work displayed

• Becoming comfortable with classroom routine and schedule
• Being comfortable asking for help from the teacher
• Practicing hand washing and bathroom hygiene
• Dressing self-including shoes, socks and outerwear, hats, mittens
• Locating and caring for belongings
• Setting goals and celebrating achievements
• Sharing the teacher’s time with classmates
• Serving self and peers snacks and drinks
• Experiences the local community through field trips

• Strengthen eye-hand coordination
• Strengthen pincher grip (puzzles, play dough, )
• Develop muscles necessary for writing
• Gain self-awareness and confidence through practice
• Express self-using variety of art mediums, writing tools
• Develop coordination needed to perform self-help skills (dressing, shoes, laces and velcro, buttons and zippers, turning on water, opening doors)

• Develop body awareness
• Develop sense of body control
• Group cooperative games
• Sand and water play
• Climbing
• Swinging
• Practice balance (stand on one foot, yoga, dancing)
• Practice age appropriate group games (parachute, Duck, Duck Goose, bean bag toss, soccer)
• Move body in different ways (skip, hop, jump, gallop, run, sun sideways, crisscross, backwards, upside down)
• Understand health benefits of physical fitness
• Understand holistic approach to health (fitness, nutrition, relaxation)

• Develop a love of reading and a respect for books
• Be introduced to a variety of genres: picture books, concept books, alphabet and counting books, realistic books, fantasy books, biographies
• Memorize predictable pattern books
• Associate reading with learning, imagination, wonder, pleasure
• Learn parts of story: beginning, middle, end
• Learn story elements: characters, plot, setting, and theme
• Practice predicting what happens next
• Practice repeating words and phrases
• Imagine different endings
• Learn book care
• Learn library etiquette
• Recall events from story, sequence of events
• Become familiar with layout of a book (front to back, top to bottom and reading left to right)
• Learns that one reads words not pictures, pictures provide contextual cues
• Gain ability to comprehend story from looking/listening to picture books and listening to book on cd/teacher reading without visual cues (chapter books)
• Puppets

• Recognize letters
• Associate letters with sounds
• Letter banks
• Recognize name, classmate’s names
• Simple sight word recognition (Dolch list, names, classroom areas)
• Word banks
• Enjoy nursery rhymes
• Letter-sound associations including recognize beginning and ending sounds
• Simple rhyming words
• Learn fingerplay and songs
• Writing letters and words (play dough, salt and cornmeal trays, child markers and crayons, pencil)
• Identify environmental print (classroom labels, street and traffic signs, familiar logos and restaurant signs)

• Explore picture sorts
• Gain competence with puzzles
• Experience simple keyboards and appropriate computer skills
• Solve simple riddles and story problems

• Introduced to Math Their Way (hands on, sequenced learning)
• Free explore math manipulative materials
• Patterning with manipulatives and real objects
• Sorting
• Counting forwards and backwards
• Concept of number, number sense
• Classifying
• Graphing
• Measurement
• Math vocabulary such as opposite, backward
• Math predicting
• Real life math problems in the classroom
• Colors and shapes
• Picture and object sorts
• Blocks and puzzles
• Sensory exploration including water play, rice and beans, cornmeal, salt and noodles- pouring, funnels, measuring, stirring, scooping

• Opportunities to speak in front of peers
• Being introduced to a variety of appropriate music genres
• Learning music concepts such as rhythm, beat, lyrics, tune
• Dress up including encouraging
• Role-playing
• Playing musical instruments
• Musical games
• Create visual art while listening to different music genres
• Sing alongs with other classrooms
• Dancing
• Body awareness games

• Experience real life science lab experiments
• Make predictions
• Ask questions to form a hypothesis
• Curriculum content includes physical, earth, life and environmental science topics
• Seasonal nature activities
• Outdoor classroom learning
• Collecting and graphing data
• Making predictions

• Appreciate cultural and social diversity
• Study community helpers
• Historical figures
• National Holidays
• My Family
• My Community
• My School Community
• Concept of now and then/before and after/timelines
• Monthly concepts and related field trips and school guests
• Seasonal and holiday festivals and traditions
• School community celebrations

Children will learn healthy eating and drinking habits relate to overall lifelong health, fitness and happiness by:

• Allowing parents to send in lunches and snacks if proper documentation is provided to address allergies, food habits, religious and nutrition requirements
• Eating healthy school lunches and snacks
• Cooking projects use fresh ingredients, when possible
• Encouraging healthy choices of fresh ingredients

Children will look at the present through art from the past helps cultivate a  climate of appreciation of diverse contributions by:

• Discovering famous artists and their works
• Relating art to literacy- art tells a story
• Developing imagination through seeing an art piece
• Recreating art styles (collage, pointillism, watercolors, charcoal)

• Learning basic courtesy such as please, thank you, excuse me
• Waiting until all are served to eat
• Hello and goodbye greetings
• Making introductions and making guests feel welcome
• Knowing what makes a friend and being a friend
• Caring for work space and classroom and playground clean up
• Positive conflict resolution within peer groups

• Know first and last name
• Know address, parent’s cell numbers
• Stranger danger
• Fire safety
• Car safety
• Sun safety
• Playground, park and pool safety

Early exposure to STEM excites and engages students in a lifelong endeavor to the future of education. Our STEM-focused curriculum is an integration of all subject areas and incorporates hands-on activities, manipulatives, and lessons that introduce those concepts to our students.