Pre-Kindergarten

(5-6 Years Old)

o Developing and improving skills, like zipping, buttoning, snapping, tying, cutting, and writing

o Communicating and participating in activities with adults and other children

o Sharing classroom items, and accepting classroom limits

o Accepting responsibility for actions and items 

o Problem solving situations independently

o Building listening and speaking skills for large and small group environments 

o Identifying and creating rhyming words

o Developing acceptable grammar, pronunciation, and personal experience conversations

o Verbally spelling their names, and beginning sight words 

o Developing and improving skills like painting, drawing and coloring

o Using different sensory enriching materials like sand, water, play dough, finger paint, and shaving cream

o Learning personal information, like name, birth date, address, phone numbers

o Use of concepts like patterns, spatial awareness, opposites, same/different and sequencing

o Use of math skills like number recognition, size sequencing, more/less/equal, and money identification