📚 1. Literacy (Language & Early Reading/Writing)
Goals
- Build phonological awareness
- Develop vocabulary and oral language
- Introduce print concepts
- Begin emergent writing
Skills & Activities
Phonological Awareness
- Identify beginning sounds (sun starts with /s/)
- Rhyming (cat/hat, dog/fog)
- Clap syllables
Print Awareness
- Recognize book front/back, title, author
- Recognize first name
- Track words left to right during read-alouds
- Environmental print (stop signs, labels)
Letter Knowledge
- Identify uppercase letters (A–Z exposure)
- Match letters to sounds (intro level)
- Letter of the week activities
Writing
- Name tracing and writing
- Hold a writing utensil correctly
- Drawing + “story dictation”
Read-Alouds
- Daily story time
- Answer questions about stories
- Predicting story outcomes
- Retelling using pictures and sequencing them
🔢 2. Math
Goals
- Develop number sense
- Recognize shapes and patterns
- Build early measurement and comparison skills
- Practice data analysis
Skills & Activities
Number Sense
- Count 0–20 (rote and objects)
- Recognize numbers 0–20
- One-to-one correspondence (counting objects correctly)
- Estimate number of items in a jar (between 1-20)
- Identify number or manipulatives that are more, less or same
Patterns
- AB, AAB, ABB, ABC patterns using objects or pictures
Shapes
- Identify circle, square, triangle, rectangle, oval, hexagon, rhombus, pentagon, star, heart
- Identify cube, sphere, rectangular prism, cylinder, pyramid, triangular prism
- Categorize 2D vs. 3D shapes
Measurement & Comparison
- Big/medium/small, tall/short, heavy/light
- Use non-standard measurement (blocks, hands)
Math Play
- Counting songs (“Five Little Ducks”)
- Simple board games with dice
Data Anaylsis
- Draw and/or interpret bar graphs and pictographs
🔬 3. Science
Goals
- Encourage curiosity and observation
- Introduce basic life, earth, and physical science concepts
- Introduce science tools
Units & Activities
Life Science
- Explore the 5 senses
- Investigate animals: habitat, migration, diet, adaptations
- Plant seeds and observe and measure growth
- Discuss plant, apple, and pumpkin life cycle
- Observe insect life (caterpillars)
Earth Science
- Weather
- Seasons awareness
- Exploring rocks, soil, water
- Space science- planets and moon in relation to Earth
- Seasonal nature walks
Physical Science
- Sink/float experiments
- Magnet exploration
- Rainbow light refraction
Scientific Skills
- Asking “what do you notice?”
- Simple prediction (“What will happen if…?”)
- Using senses to observe
STEM
- draw a design for a specific purpose and build it given the materials
🎨 4. Creative Arts
Goals
- Encourage self-expression
- Develop fine motor skills
- Explore a variety of art processes and materials
- Explore music, movement, and visual arts
Activities
Visual Arts
- Explore various art processes: drawing, painting, sculpting
- Shape and color art projects
- Seasonal crafts or craft that ties into letter of the week
- Mixing paint colors
- Experiment with materials- crayons, watercolor paint, do a dots, colored pencils, markers, brushes, sponges, q-tips
Music
- Singing daily/holiday/seasonal songs
- Rhythm with instruments (bells)
- Clap/tap beat patterns
- Fingerplays
Movement/Dance
- Creative movement to music
- Animal walks (bear crawl, bunny hop)
- Freeze dance
Dramatic Play
- Dress-up play
- Dramatize familiar stories
🤝 5. Personal & Social Skills
Goals
- Build independence
- Develop emotional regulation
- Learn cooperation and classroom behavior
Skills & Activities
Self-Regulation
- “Calm down” corner strategies
- Breathing exercises (balloon breathing)
- Feeling identification (happy, sad, angry, excited)
Social Interaction
- Sharing and turn-taking games
- Partner activities
- Group circle time expectations
Independence
- Seeks new experiences and try new things
- Cleaning up centers
- Putting on coats/backpacks
- Washing hands properly
- Communicate his/her needs
- Pouring own water and opening up own snack package
- Put papers in folder and put folder into backpack
- Stat personal information (first and last name, age, birthday, school name, phone number, address)
Classroom Community
- Morning meeting routines
- Classroom jobs (line leader, helper)
- Respecting personal space
- Practice using manners
- Play cooperatively and respect others
Conflict Resolution
- “Use your words” practice
- Practice problem-solving in social situations
- Simple problem-solving steps:
- Stop
- Talk
- Solve