4 Year Old Program

All children should not be expected to reach every objective listed here during their preschool years. There are large differences in development that are perfectly normal. These goals and objectives are offered as guideposts. The primary focus of T.E.D.S. is to aid the development of the whole child. Varied learning opportunities will be provided to assist all students to develop socially, emotionally, physically, and intellectually. The main focus of the 4-year-old program is social and emotional development with an introduction to academics.

Social Development

  • Play cooperatively with peers
  • Respect the feelings of others and know how to be a friend
  • Develop a positive attitude toward school
  • Participate in group activities
  • Take care of equipment

Emotional Development

  • Learn self-control
  • Accept responsibility for his/her own actions
  • Accept guidance and suggestions
  • Develop a positive self concept/image
  • Adjust to change
  • Begin to understand others’ needs and their feelings

Art

The students are presented opportunities to:
  • Experience and develop concept of line, color, shape, and texture
  • Continue exposure to modeling, constructing, and drawing
  • Continue exposure to various art media
  • Develop recognition of primary and secondary colors

Health & Safety

The students are presented opportunities to:
  • Develop awareness of the body
  • Develop awareness of proper nutrition
  • Develop awareness of good dental hygiene
  • Develop awareness of good health and safety roles

Intellectual Development

  • Listen and begin to follow directions
  • Begin to work independently
  • Begin to use time appropriately
  • Take care of learning materials
  • Complete work

Language Arts

The students are presented opportunities to:
  • Speak in full sentences
  • Take turns in conversations
  • Repeat sounds, words, and phrases (finger plays, poems, songs)
  • Share ideas and stories in group time
  • Retell stories with logic
  • Use simple verbs
  • Ask and answer questions of who, what, when, where, why, how
  • Predict logical outcome of story
  • Tell a story in sequences with pictures
  • Recognize first name when printed
  • Tell story with visual aids
  • Use listening skills
  • Develop vocabulary
  • Develop left-to-right progression

Math

The students are presented opportunities to:
  • Recognize numbers and concepts 1-10
  • Identify shapes (circle, square, triangle, oval, heart, rectangle)
  • Begin problem-solving skills
  • Develop concept of size and shape
  • Introduce rote counting 1-50
  • Classify objects by size, color, shape, or design
  • Develop patterning skills
  • One-to-one correspondence 1-10
  • Spatial concepts
  • Compare groups such as alike/different, more/less, taller/shorter
  • Make simple graphs
 

Physical: Gross Motor

The students are presented opportunities to:
  • Improve locomotor skills: walking, running, jumping, hopping, galloping, skipping
  • Improve coordination
  • Improve balance
  • Learn to bounce, throw, and catch a ball
  • Introduction of group games

Physical: Fine Motor

  • String small beads
  • Follow a sequence of holes when lacing
  • Introduce lacing shoes
  • Work a puzzle of 10 or more shapes
  • Use crayon, markers, or pencil with control
  • Connect a dotted outline
  • Reproduce shapes with models (circle, square, triangle, and rectangle)
  • Use scissors with control (straight line and curved line)
  • Use self-help skills (zipping, buttoning, snapping)
  • Draw representative drawing
  • Tear paper
  • Build intricate towers with blocks
  • Paint with large and small brushes

Reading Readiness

The students are presented opportunities to:
  • Begin to recognize capital letters and their sounds
  • Enjoy listening to and discussing story books
  • Retell stories
  • Engage in reading and writing attempts
  • Identify labels and signs in their environment
  • Participate in rhyming games
  • Understand that print carries a message
  • Identify letters and make some letter and sound matches
  • Use known letters or approximations of letters to represent written language
  • Promote literacy-based play activities

Religion

  • Feel accepted, loved, special and included in the world that our God has created
  • Say Grace before snacks and meals
  • Attend Chapel daily, developing appropriate Chapel behavior
  • Recite age-appropriate prayers and songs
  • Retell and act out some Bible stories
  • Learn and exhibit Christian values through experience and example

Science

The students are presented opportunities to:
  • Extend development of the five senses
  • Develop concepts of weather and seasons
  • Explore plants and animals
  • Develop appreciation for the world around us
  • Experiment and predict basic concepts

Social Skills

The students are presented opportunities to:
  • Develop self-help skills
  • Develop a healthy self concept
  • Develop skills in acceptable expression of emotion
  • Develop skills to exhibit self-control
  • Develop ability to respond appropriately to discipline and guidance
  • Understand and participate in daily routines and activities

Social Studies

The students are presented opportunities to:
  • Begin an awareness of Texas culture and history
  • Continue development of concept of ourselves, our family, and the world around us
  • Continue development of awareness of community helpers
  • Continue development of awareness of holidays

Writing

The students are presented opportunities to:
  • Write first name
  • Draw recognizable pictures
  • Dictate stories