To promote Christian values by encouraging sharing, confidence, independence, and kindness.

To surround children in a happy, loving and nurturing learning environment.

To promote Self-Help/Independent Behaviors:

• Washes hands independently
• Unpacks and packs up lunch items independently
• Drinks from a cup independently
• Cleans up area after lunch and center time
• Helps to put classroom materials away in the correct location
• Manages and takes care of learning materials
• Recognizes own belongings and takes care of them
• Able to manage bathroom needs independently
• Follows morning and afternoon routines for unpacking and packing up
• Focuses on a task to completion
• Follows multi-step directions to complete tasks in the classroom
• Accepts adult guidance and modifies behavior accordingly
• Uses conflict-resolution strategies, as needed, when interacting with others

To promote Social/Emotional & Language Development:

• Develops sense of self-confidence and feeling of success
• Accepts challenges willingly and tries new things
• Demonstrates self-control, independence, and responsibility with self-help skills and daily routines
• Transitions from one activity to another
• Completes teacher-directed activities with minimal assistance
• Develops the ability to think and work independently
• Initiates, participates and communicates effectively when playing with peers
• Listens attentively during large and small group instruction
• Exhibits cooperation and compromise through work and play
• Responds positively to adult guidance
• Demonstrates leadership skills in classroom
• Shows self-control in a variety of settings
• Develops conflict-resolution skills
• Confident with peer relationships and stands up for own rights
• Displays natural curiosities about the world around us
• Utilizes verbal expression to communicate thoughts and feelings
• Expresses ideas in complete sentences
• Shows imagination and creativity in using classroom materials
• Follows three-step oral directions
• Repeats a sentence of 10 words

To promote Cognitive Development:

• Learns to work from left to right
• Able to recite personal information (name, address, birthday, etc.)
• Demonstrates an understanding of opposites
• Prints first and last name independently
• Recognizes differences and similarities in objects

Math

• Able to sort/classify/match objects by color, size, shape, and other attributes
• Demonstrates an understanding of relative size (big, bigger, biggest)
  
• Performs simple measurements using classroom manipulatives
• Able to create and complete a pattern independently
• Demonstrates an understanding of calendar concepts
• Able to identify sets with more or less
• Able to identify at least 3 coins
• Counts to 100
• Counts at least 20 objects using one-to-one correspondence
• Able to identify the number that comes next in a sequence
• Able to print numerals using proper form (top to bottom)
• Develops an understanding of number operations (addition/subtraction)

Language Arts

• Recognizes upper and lowercase letters
  
• Able to identify and create rhyming words
  
• Retells a story in a sequence
  
• Identifies initial and ending consonant sounds in words
• Develops comprehension skills (listening and reading)
• Develops decoding skills to begin reading independently
• Able to print letters using proper form (top to bottom)

To promote Physical Development:

• Strengthens and refines gross and fine motor skills
• Exhibits large muscle coordination (runs, jumps, skips, gallops, climbs, hops, pumps on swing)
• Able to maintain balance when standing on one foot
• Able to throw and catch a large ball
• Holds writing instruments using a three-finger grasp
• Exhibits hand-dominance when writing and cutting
• Able to form smooth even lines when writing
• Can copy simple shapes independently
• Can cut simple shapes independently
• Shows the ability to button, snap, zip and tie

• Arrival
• Morning Work
• Calendar/Math
• Literacy
• Bathroom Break
• Centers/Math
• Lunch
• Storytime/Reading
• Playground
• Dismissal