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Pre-Kindergarten
Sunbeams spend much of their day working or playing at activities of
their own selection, but our daily schedule provides time for planned
individual, small group and large group activities, designed to give each
child many experiences with:
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- Puzzles, up to 45 pieces
- Dramatic play
- Storytelling and retelling
- Art activities, including
easel and playdough
- Music, singing, movement
and instruments
- Foreign languages
- Public speaking
- Matching
- Sorting, 1 attribute
- Measuring, non standard
- Patterns, 3 repeat
- Estimating
- Predicting
- Fractions, whole, half and
quarter
- Computers
- Blocks
- Cooking
- Sensory: sand, water, gak,
playdough
- Calendar [today, tomorrow,
yesterday, days of the week, months]
- Seriation [size, number,
length, weight, texture]
- Comparatives [heavy/light,
long/short, more/less, big/bigger/biggest]
- Ordered sets [nesting and
stacking]
- Positional words: behind,
over, before, under, next to, after, in, on, down, etc.
- Classification
- Tracing, cutting, lacing
- Hopping, jumping,
balancing, swinging, climbing, running, tricycles, skipping,
galloping, marching
- Manipulatives
- Group games
- Board games
- Balls of varied sizes
[throwing, catching, kicking]
At the
end of this PreK year, most four-year-olds will be able to:
- Identify colors: red, blue,
green, yellow, black, brown, white, orange, purple and pink
- Name shapes: circle,
square, rectangle, triangle, star, diamond, heart and oval
- Recognize and print some
letters
- Recognize and print 1st
name
- Listen to stories
- Follow 3 oral directions
- Rote count to 30
- Recognize numerals 1-5
- Count 1-1 to 10
- Understand quantity to 5
- Toilet independently
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