Our Pre-First Grade program is designed for children who are not yet ready to enter or do not meet age restrictions for First Grade programs. The curriculum includes instruction in language arts and reading development, mathematics, science, social studies, and spanish
| Language Arts |
| • letter recognition |
| • sound recognition |
| • phonemic awareness |
| • developing print awareness |
| • blending sounds to read words |
| • develop proficiency in silent & oral reading |
| • developing a sight word vocabulary |
| • exposure to fiction, nonfiction, and poetry |
| • beginning reading comprehension |
| • using phonetic skills to spell words |
| • beginning to express ideas in writing |
| • developing handwriting |
| • emphasizing capitalization and punctuation |
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| Mathematics |
| • calendar math |
| • shapes and patterns |
| • number awareness |
| • one to one correspondence |
| • comparing numbers |
| • number order |
| • identifying ordinal numbers 1st to 10th |
| • counting to 100 by 1's, 2's, 5's and 10's |
| • counting tens and ones |
| • writing numbers to 100 |
| • creating and solving story problems |
| • measurement (length, weight, capacity) |
| • time and money |
| • fractions |
| • computation: addition and subtraction |
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| Science |
| • parts of the body |
| • nutrition |
| • exercise |
| • the four seasons |
| • clouds, rain, tornados, hurricanes & snow |
| • the five senses |
| • flowers and plants |
| • bugs and insects |
| • mammals, reptiles, amphibians, & birds |
| • ocean life |
| • electricity |
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| Social Studies |
| • U.S. states and Washington D.C. |
| • Pilgrims and Native Americans |
| • the first Thanksgiving |
| • Hanukkah |
| • Christmas Around the World |
| • Kwanzaa |
| • Black history |
| • the environment |
| • pollution |
| • recycling |
| • writing numbers to 100 |
