4K Program

SOCIAL & EMOTIONAL DEVELOPMENT

• Engages and interacts appropriately in play with peers (takes turns, shares, and accepts change made by peers with ease).

• Maintains personal space.

• Displays age-appropriate self-control.

• Uses peaceful strategies to solve a conflict.

• Manages classroom rules, routines and transitions with occasional reminders.

• Recognizes the feelings of others in situations and responds appropriately.

• Exhibits confidence when approaching experiences and activities.

• Takes responsibility for the classroom space, classroom materials, and personal belongings.

LISTENING & UNDERSTANDING

• Persists with self-initiated activities

• Engages in sustained imaginative play and inventive thinking

• Explores various creative self-expression:  music, art, movement

HEALTH & PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT

• Demonstrates basic self-care

• Controls marker, crayon, and/or pencil with an efficient grasp

• Cuts lines and curves with scissors using proper grasp

• Manipulates a variety of materials and objects ( ex. Stacks and builds, strings beads, sets puzzles, imitates hand actions)

• Moves safely with purpose and coordination

• Recognizes uppercase and lowercase letters

LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT & COMMUNICATION

• Makes letter-sound connections

• Recognizes rhyme

• Recognize words that begin with the same sound

• Print Concepts: Demonstrates and understands of how print and books work

• Comprehension:  Retells a familiar story in sequence

• Writes first name

• Draws pictures and/or writes scribbles, letter-like forms, or letters to represent words and ideas.

• Uses language to express wants, needs, ideas, and feelings in complete sentences.

• Listens to and completes actions based on single and multi-step directions

MATHEMATIC SKILLS

• Asks questions, seeks information and investigates ideas to satisfy curiosity.

• Sorts and/or describes objects by size, shape, color, or use.

• Identifies common shapes:  circle, square, rectangle, triangle, heart, and star.

• Responds to positional words to indicate space and location: in, on, under, up down, beside, etc.

• Recognizes, extends, and creates simple patterns.

• Consistently counts aloud to 20 or more.

• Counts a set of 10 or more objects.

• Recognizes and names numerals 0-10.