Children will be able to identify themselves by gender, age, family information, phone number and know major parts of their body. They will be able to identify, understand, name and express feelings lending to positive problem solving.

Thinking Skills enhance a preschooler’s ability to master basic skills, such as the alphabet, colors and shapes. Children use thinking skills, expanding their creativity and imagination, as they sort their own experience into categories, comparing, contrasting and making conclusions. 

Reasoning skills are used by children to understand the environment, a sequence of events and how to follow directions. Opportunities for children to experiment in their own  reasoning skills which are important for school readiness and self -confidence.

Children will participate in creative activities that will help develop their cognitive, social, and motor abilities. They will have opportunities to build self-esteem as they express thoughts and feelings, control material choices, and make independent decisions as they create art. Artistic sensory exploration builds knowledge of the world around them. Symbols used in their visual art will provide a foundation for later writing skills.

Children are able to hold and use writing drawing tools, glue items and cut with scissors. They can manipulate small object such as craft items, buttons, stringing beads, shape play dough, tie laces and assemble simple puzzles. Children learn to synchronize finger movement and eye coordination.

Children will be introduced to the upper lower case letter of the alphabet. They will sound out letters, associate initial consonant letters with simple words and practice writing alphabet characters. They will identify words beginning with the same sounds and familiar words, logos and sign.

Children are able to participate in repeating a familiar story, song, poem, finger play and/or rhyme. Comprehension skills help children understand and follow directions with at least two steps.

Children demonstrate cognitive ability by correctly putting in order or  sequence up to three story pictures. They demonstrate book awareness, learning about the cover and back of book, left to right order, words read top to bottom and beginning and end of a story.

Children will recognize, name and describe a variety of shapes. The will recognize simple shapes in their environment.

Children learn to recognize and identify colors by name. They will recognize colors in their environment.

Children will learn to recognize, count, name, and write whole numbers. They will be able to match a numeral to a group of objects.

Children will be able to demonstrate an understanding of “adding to” and “taking away” using object up to five; match numbers and understand the concept of more less to number sets of 0 through 10. They will measure and compare items by length and weight, recognize a penny, nickel, and dime, and understand words related to position, direction, size  and comparison.

Children will learn through observation, investigation and recording that plants grow from seeds, about the seasons, know colors and understand animals.

Children learn to make sense of the world by making comparisons and identifying relationships. They will identify, understand vocabulary and describe  opposites by using comparison skill. Children will be able to match two similar pictures in a set of five pictures by identifying same and different items using physical features such as shape, color, and/or size. They will be able to recognize, copy or repeat simple patterning sequences by sorting and classifying items by color, shape and size.  They will understand concepts of more, less or equal for up to five objects.