CURRICULUM

Curriculum Overview

Your child will participate in each of these activities during their day with us in Pre-K!

Heggerty

• Building phonemic awareness
• Play games with words and sounds (isolate initial, final, and medial sound; blend and segment words, syllables, and phonemes)
• Identify and produce rhyming words
• Sing songs (e.g., ABC songs) and recite nursery rhymes

Literacy Groups

• Games to match and identify letters
• Draw and describe pictures
• Letter/Sound bingo
• Memory games
• Concept sorts (i.e., fruit/not a fruit)
• Practice tracking/reading predictable texts

Story Time

• Read a variety of children’s books
• Read books several times to develop understanding
• Learn new vocabulary
• Answer questions to understand what is happening in a story
• Act out other people through characters in books

Plan-Do-Review

• Plan – Children tell teachers and friends what they will do
• Do – Children are allowed to play in the classroom with a variety of materials
• Review – Children tell teachers and friends what they did after they have finished

Content

• Social Studies content when applicable (i.e., how do we take care of babies)
• Science (i.e., sink or float)

Math

• Calendar time
• Math games and explorations (i.e., counting, colors, patterns, number recognition)

Social Emotional Learning

• Connect as a class community
• Explore feelings
• Practice being “social thinkers”
• Explore what it means to be a good friend