Pre-Kindergarten
(5-6 Years Old)
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Pre-Kindergarten Developmental Goals
o Developing and improving skills like skipping, hopping, jumping, balancing, throwing, and catching
o Playing on outdoor climbing equipment
o Playing sports games with teachers and children, like basketball and soccer
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
