PreKindergarten Room

Daily Schedule

9:00-10:00am Morning activity

10:00-10:30am Judaic/ Davening Circle

10:30-10:45am Snack

10:45-11:00am Calendar/ Weather

11:00-11:45am Outdoor play

11:45-12:15 Circle Time

12:15-12:45 Lunch/ Storytime

 

Hot lunch is served weekly on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday
 

PreKindergarten Room Curriculum Overview

 

1. Social/ Emotional Development

• Children begin to understand and name their feelings in themselves and others
• Plays well with a variety of children
• Develops a close friendship with at least one child
• Children feel comfortable seeking help from adults
• Able to obey class rules and routines
• Children are capable of taking on most self-care activities
• Children show an understanding in choice
• Feel comfortable participating in group activities
• Able to recognize and keep track of their individual belongings
• Show respect for their school environment
• Children are able to pick up after themselves.
• Able to use problem solving strategies resolve conflicts.

2. Strengthening Gross and Fine Motor Function

• Children are able to use objects for writing and art
• Build with small and large blocks
• Hold and cut with scissors
• Continuing development of hand-eye coordination
• Able to manipulate and control hand movements
• Comfortable grasping a bead
• Children are active and able to run, jump, hop etc.
• Maintain balance while performing a variety of actions
• Dance along to music
• Kick, throw and roll a ball
• Able to climb over and under playground equipment
• Rides on a tricycle

3. Growing cognitive abilities

• Develop problem solving through a variety of methods
• Learn about cause and effect
• Able to apply past knowledge to new experiences
• Learn to be persistent with tasks
• Label objects by a variety of attributes
• Identify and create patterns
• Develops an understanding of time as a concept and sequencing
• Participate in pretend play by themselves and in groups
• Capable of turning thoughts into a drawing or building
• Learning to recognize the alphabet
• Start to distinguish their name and how to write it
• Foster the ability to verbalize thoughts and observations
• Display curiosity and a desire to learn.
• Can determine like and unlike shapes from one another and as a part of a whole

4. Math Skills

• Counts and recognizing the numbers 1-20
• Can arrange the numbers 1-10 in order
• Learn basic geometric shapes
• Begin to understand the concept of less and more
• Sequencing objects by size
• Develop a concept of spatial placement (over/under) and size (small/big)
• Basic addition and subtraction with and without objects
• Practice measuring

5. Language Skills

• Children develop the vocabulary base to express themselves and can communicate in complete sentences
• Help develop each child’s rhyming word knowledge
• Able to follow spoken instructions
• Produce complete answers to questions
• Children feel comfortable engaging in conversation and asking questions
• Develops reading skills and enjoys listening to stories.
• Comprehends meaning from the pictures in books and other visuals
• Tells stories in sequence. 
• Understand spoken patterns, rhymes, and similar and disimilar sounds
• Understands and uses the words: over, under, up, down, to , from etc.

6. Alphabet

• Recognizes most letters by name and sound
• Will learn to recognize upper and lower case letter
• Will learn to write upper and lower case letter
• Will learn each letters sounds
• Identify their name in print and the names of friends

7. Social Studies

• Label common spaces in a house or classroom (kitchen, bathroom, play area…)
• Learn and understand the basic needs of all people
• Discover different community jobs ( firefighters, police officers, mail carriers, doctors…)

8. Judaic Learning

• Recognize basic themes and symbols for the Jewish holidays
• Perceive the idea of:
• Chesed: learning be kind, show empathy, mitzvoth, help others
• Tikun Olam: taking care of the word by recycling, cleaning up, giving
• Learn simple Hebrew words in relation to holidays
• Learn the first four questions of Passover
• Be familiar with the symbols and routines and prayers for Shabbat
• Discover the theme of freedom in many Jewish Holiday’s