Art
The students are presented opportunities to:
Gain pleasure from art sensory experiences
Become familiar with artistic style, subject matter, and the various forms of art
Gather information from the environment using their five senses
Identify colors, textures, forms, patterns, repetitions and subjects in the environment
Become familiar with the basic elements of visual arts (line, color, form, shape, and texture)
Create artworks using a variety of colors, forms, and lines
Develop manipulative skills using a variety of materials and tools to produce drawings, paintings, prints, and constructions
Work collaboratively with others in art
Relate art to everyday life
Appreciate art as a means of non-verbal communication
Recognize their own strengths as creative artists
Create and describe their art work
Emotional Development
Develop a positive, realistic self-concept
Accept guidance and suggestions
Practice self-control
Accept responsibility for his/her own actions
Adjust to change
Understand others’ needs and their feelings
Handwriting
The students are presented opportunities to:
Learn to hold a pencil correctly when printing
Print own first and last name in proper form
Copy all alphabet letters from a model
Copy numerals 0-9 from a model; then by memory
Print all letters of the alphabet from memory
Develop and practice strokes for proper manuscript writing of upper and lower case letters
Develop awareness of left-to-right progression
Demonstrate the ability to illustrate, dictate and write stories
Develop an understanding of alignment and spacing
Health & Safety
The students are presented opportunities to:
Develop concept of good health and importance of good personal hygiene
Develop knowledge of proper nutrition
Develop awareness of self
Develop awareness of personal safety
Intellectual Development
In each of the content areas, activities are planned that fit the interests and maturity of the student. Essential for success in the Kindergarten academics are good work habits.
The students are presented opportunities to:
Listen and follow directions accurately
Work independently
Use time appropriately
Take care of learning materials
Complete assigned work
Language Arts
The students are presented opportunities to:
Learn phone number, address, birth date and complete name
Develop more extensive vocabulary
Listen attentively in various settings for a variety of purposes such as: to follow directions, to learn information, to share ideas with their peers, and to appreciate language
Appropriately answer questions and retell information
Contribute to a discussion
Speak in different settings in order to develop fluency and self-confidence
Math
The students are presented opportunities to:
Count objects in a daily routine and make one-to-one correspondence
Recognize and reproduce basic shapes
Develop knowledge of the use of the calendar, clock, thermometer, scales and ruler
Use ordinal numbers 0-20
Recognize small groups (sets) without counting
Develop understanding of grouping elements in sets
Visually memorize the numerals 0-20
Use a number line
Develop ability to repeat patterns
Do simple addition and subtraction 1-10
Develop awareness of money: coins, value
Understand concepts of part, whole, half, most, more than, less than
Count by 5’s, 10’s
Solve problems
Physical Development
Acquire basic movement skills
Improve fitness levels
Learn safe participation in activities
Practice and understand fair play
Develop a favorable self-image
Physical: Gross Motor
The students are presented opportunities to:
Refine skills such as hopping, jumping, skipping, climbing
Ability to bounce, throw, and catch a ball
Experiment with movement through controlled and free space
Develop eye-hand coordination
Know personal space
Physical: Fine Motor
The students are presented opportunities to:
Introduce tying shoes
Establish hand preference
Begin to develop skills needed to snap fingers, use tweezers, and other simple tools used to pick up objects
Develop and refine manipulative skills
Reproduce shapes without models (circle, square, triangle, and rectangle)
Work from top-to-bottom and left-to-right
Reading
The students are presented opportunities to:
Develop readiness skills, such as left-to-right progression, sequencing, auditory and visual memory, auditory and visual discrimination
Draw conclusions
Make inferences
Learn to classify
Recognize cause and effect
Predict outcomes
Develop vocabulary and beginning comprehension skills
Acquire sight vocabulary
Identify all the letters of the alphabet and say the letter names
Develop phonemic concepts about letter-sound relationships and discrepancies
Identify rhyming words
Distinguish between real and make-believe, fact and opinion, in written materials
Regularly use the classroom library and the school library as a means of finding books and materials for entertainment and information
Identify parts of a book
Create new endings for stories
Tell or dramatize their own versions of a story in order to show comprehension of what they have read
Religion
Feels 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 acts out some Bible stories
Learn and exhibits Christian values through experience and example
Learn that the Bible tells about God and His Son, Jesus Christ, our Lord
Find out how Bible-time men and women served God and how boys and girls today can serve Him
Science
The students are presented opportunities to:
Identify and develop awareness of the five senses
Develop understanding of seasons and the weather
Discover scientific laws through use of simple experiments
Develop awareness of and observe life cycles
Observe growth and development of plants and animals
Identify animal families and their habitats
Identify solid, liquid, gas
Social Development
Work and 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
Assume responsibility for one’s self
Social Studies
The students are presented opportunities to:
Increase self-awareness and self-esteem through units on “me,” “family,” and “friends”
Develop an understanding of holidays and holiday customs
Develop awareness of early times in America
Develop awareness of Texas and its history
Explore community life as it pertains to careers and jobs
Explore other cultures
Learn about basic geography and beginning map skills
Understand what the globe represents
Become environmentally aware
Writing
The students are presented opportunities to:
Observe many examples of purposeful written language
Observe adults as they transcribe the children’s oral dictation about their personal experiences
Produce written language for a variety of purposes (to list, narrate, inform, and describe)
Confidently utilize own versions of writing (drawing, invented spelling)
Expand their writing vocabulary without undue concern for spelling these new words correctly
Learn to organize their thoughts in a logical sequence
Develop ability to reproduce drawn forms
