Preschool Curriculum
Children talk more and love to be heard at this stage (3 – 5 years) as speech becomes more fluent and structured. They strive to complete simple projects, play more collaboratively, and are more aware that actions have consequences.
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Key Developmental Domains
Social-emotional Development
Self Awareness and Identity: Children are aware of their unique identity.
Self-esteem: Children have good and positive feelings about themselves.
Self Confidence-Competence: Children have confidence in their abilities to seek challenging exploratory experiences.
Socialization-Cooperative Play: Children engage in group play and develop friendships.
Emotional Expressions: Children can recognize their emotions and feelings, give words to them, and can self-regulate.
Sense of Empathy: Children can recognize and understand the feelings of others and act kindly towards others.
Moral Consciousness: Children develop a sense of right and wrong and follow the rules.
Conflict Resolution: Children can resolve problems and find mutual solutions with playmates.
Patience and Persistence: Children learn to wait and try again when they fail in the first instance.
Sense of Community: Children learn that the group is a shared space and needs to care for group resources and the environment.
Awareness of Rules: Children follow the rules for playing games and sometimes change the practices as the game progresses.
Group Guiding Norms: Children understand group rules and can follow a 3-part command.
Cognitive Development: Language, Communication & Literacy
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Speaking: Children can express themselves clearly. They can tell their full name, age, as well as their street name and city.
Comprehension: Children can understand language and instructions.
Reading: Children enjoy hearing stories and can read for pleasure and identify with the event and characters.
Vocabulary: They demonstrate knowledge and usage of many words and phrases.
Sentence Construction: Children structure sentences to include subject, verb, and object when speaking.
Alphabet Mastering: Children show knowledge of the alphabet and can identify them.
Phonics: Children show understanding of the letter sounds and spoken words.
Writing: Children engage in different emergent writing skills.
Questioning: Children seek meaning and clarity by asking “why?” and “how” questions.
Directional Expression: Children use words to show direction and location (on, off, in, out, under, over, etc.).
Prediction: Children can predict the next event from a story read.
Analytical & Mathematical Development
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Questioning: Children ask “why?” and “how” questions to seek clarity.
Time Concept: Children have basic knowledge of time and the difference between past and present.
Number Concept: Children do rote counting and recognize numbers in sequence.
Children learn one-to-one correspondence counting to determine the quantity.
Shapes: Children can identify, name, and describe the attributes of different forms and shapes.
Patterns: Children identify and describe patterns they observe in their environments and can create repetitive patterns.
Sorting and Matching: Children can sort items and match them according to features.
Units and Measurements: Children estimate and measure things to compare, describe, and arrange according to their attributes.
Size and Opposite Relationships: Children can organize things by size and in comparison with another (big and small, tall, and short).
Spatial Relationships: Children recognize why and how people and objects relate to one another in space, allowing them to organize things mentally and physically and navigate the environment successfully.
Drawing Inferences: Children can draw conclusions, decide, or solve problems by reviewing data available to them.
Parts identification: Children can Identify parts of a whole in isolation of the object (car wheel, dog face, etc.).
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Physical & Health Development
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Gross Motor: Children develop large and stronger muscles with improved balancing and flexible body coordination.
Fine Finger Motor:
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Children develop strength and hand-eye coordination to control objects as they use their small muscles.
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Has firm grip with using writing and drawing tools.
Body Recognition: Children are aware of the different parts of their bodies and how to navigate each piece in space.
Healthy Practices: Children develop healthy hygiene practices for themselves and the protection of others.
Self Care: Children can put on most of their clothing by themselves and wash their own hands when dirty.
Feeding: Children can make healthy food choices and feed themselves using a spoon or fork.
Science & Technology
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Concept Advancement: Children move from concrete to more abstract concepts and representations.
Scientific Exploration:
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Children observe materials, the natural environment, and processes in their play-learning environment.
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Children carry out experiments to monitor results and to test their ideas.
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Children classify objects, materials, people, events to the primary attributes.
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Children make predictions of what they expect to happen next.
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Children make inferences (conclude) based on the evaluation of data, experiences, and observations.
Health Science: Children learn about their bodies, their functions, and their basic needs in life.
Earth and Environmental Science: Children identify the weather, climate, the ecosystem (soil, water, air, temperature) and gain basic knowledge about earth preservation.
Natural Life Science: Children identify and classify organisms and acquire knowledge about plants and animal life cycles.
Physical Science: Children acquire knowledge about the properties of objects and materials and forces and motions of objects, light, heat, electricity, etc.
Technology: Children explore digital and technological-based learning tools.
Creative Development
Art Expression: Children develop creative and imaginative expressions from observations and imaginations into two and three-dimensional models.
Drawing:
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Children begin to draw diagonal lines (triangles, etc. ) and draw following a model or imagination based on their ideas and interests.
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Pictures drawn begins to be more recognizable.
Coloring & Painting: Children start to color and paint within the perimeters of a picture.
Music: Children enjoy music, sounds from different objects, and express their thinking and feelings through music.
Rhythmic movement: Children dance and move their bodies to the sounds they hear, observe, feel and imagine.
Dramatic-Imaginative Play: Children role-play their favorite characters, models, ideas and extend their fantasies into dramatic plays.
Object Representation: Children can draw a person showing details of the body.
Social Studies & Environmental Awareness
Social Relationships: Children become aware of family and social relationships and how the family and community social network links to their existence.
Cultural Diversity:
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Children learn about the different people, cultures, and traditions in the community and the strength the diverse interest and cultures bring to a community.
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They begin to learn to respect and appreciate diversity.
Community Helpers: Children gain knowledge of the different people in the community that keeps the community functioning.
Environmental Awareness: Children understand the importance of taking care of the environment and identify ways to do so.
History: Children can describe past events, current, and can articulate future events.
Rules and Decision Making: Children recognize that rules are necessary in social settings and for community order.
They can participate in making group-classroom rules and decisions.
Geography: Children can identify familiar locations and different types of places. They can describe their neighborhood, home address, and name of the city.