Religion:
- Know that God created the world, others, me and all I see
- Begin to understand angels have been created by God
- Memorize The Guardian Angel prayer
- Know Bible is the holy book which contains stories of God’s creation and Jesus’ life
- Jesus came to live on Earth because He wanted to share God’s love
- Experience Mass
- Become familiar with liturgical calendar: Advent, Christmas, Epiphany, Lent, Easter
- Understand concept of sin
- Use prayer to talk to God for forgiveness, in thanksgiving and to help us
Communicating (Literacy):
- Uses words to describe actions/emotions
- Remembers and follows directions involving 2 or 3 steps
- Listens to others and responds in a group discussion
- Joins in and makes up songs, and rhymes that play with sound of language
- Sings a song or says a poem from memory
Reading:
- Begins to sound out words
- Begins to identify individual letters of alphabet
- Understands which symbols are letters and which are numbers
- Knows print has meaning
- Recognizes own name in print
- Begins to understand the order in which a page is read
Writing:
- Makes marks, scribbles or letter like shapes and identifies them as words
- Uses pretend writing during play
- Attempts to copy one or more letters of the alphabet
- Begins to print and copy own name
- Identifies some letters
Math:
- Count to 30 and beyond
- Give next number in sequence 1 to 10
- Uses measuring tools in play
- Matches and sorts simple shapes
- Compares size
- Works puzzles up to 10 pieces
- Follows simple direction for position
Science:
- Have fun, hands-on science experiments
- Ask questions and identify ways to find answers
- Predict what will happen
- Use tools to explore environment
- Measure sand or water
- Talk about changes in weather and seasons
Social Studies:
- Describe family members and understands simple relationships
- Adopts roles of family members during dramatic play
- Draws own family
- Recognize some people in community by their jobs
- Talk about what they want to be when they grow up
- Recognize that roads have signs or a name and houses have numbers to help identify location
Social/Emotional Skills:
- Begin to develop self-concept
- Begin to utilize self-management
- Learning to learn
- Building relationships
- Developing social behaviors
- Increasing problem solving and conflict resolution skills
Growing up Healthy:
- Developing daily living skills
- Beginning awareness of nutrition and health
- Gaining personal safety skills
Touching, Seeing, Hearing and Moving Around:
- Developing gross and fine motor skills
- Using the senses to explore