Cardinals

4 to 5 year olds

 

SOCIAL SKILLS

 

• Experience the pleasure of playing with a group of children all the same age and helps put toys away at clean up time.

• Respects the rights and property of others and uses manner words.

• Learn to share, take turns, and cooperate with others.

• Sit and attend to work in a small for 20 to 25 minutes and large group for 15 to 20 minutes.

• Makes an effort to solve problems before seeking help.

• Ask for help when needed.

• Transitions from one activity to another easily

• Begins to shows self-control.

• Speaks kindly to classmates

• Politely waits to talk when an adult is speaking.

 

READING READINESS SKILLS

 

• Recognize and identify all the letters of the alphabet (upper & lowercase)

• Identify initial consonant sounds

• Introduced to blend sounds  

• Listen to determine which words rhyme and naming the words that rhyme. 

• Can recite Nursery Rhymes.

• Names opposites.

• Orders pictures by time sequence in a story or situation.

• Practice retelling a story by memory and with the aid of picture clues.

• Recognize several words that rhyme and put them in a word family group and begin to read.  For example the word “at” produces a rhyming family: bat, cat, sat, mat, etc

• Predicts realistic outcomes of events.

• Shows interest in the printed words.

• Begin reading books using pictures for clues to the printed word.

• Sequences 2-3-4 part stories.

• Retells simple to more difficult stories.

 

MATH/SCIENCE READINESS SKILLS

 

• Recognize and identify the basic shapes.

• Recognize, identify and count numerals up to 20.

• Read a simple graph.

• Sort and classify by color and shape.

• Recognize and understand ordinal and cardinal numbers.

• Solve simple verbal problems using numbers.

• Can print numbers to 20.  Can name the penny, nickel, dime and quarter.

• Understand “More than/less than/same” with numbers to ten.

• Count and understand one to one relationships up to twenty.

•  Science Experiments that follow these steps: 

            1.  The teacher states  question.     

            2. The children make a hypothesis.

            3. The class does the  experiment.

            4. The class states and records the conclusion.

 

 

FINE MOTOR SKILLS

 

• Hold small crayons, markers and pencil with grips correctly.

• Cut holding the scissor correctly and using the helping hand

• Cuts objects following straight and curvy lines.

• Write first and last name in upper and lowercase letters.

• Color objects within the lines using a back and forth motion.

• Develop artistic skills using a variety of media:  water colors, tempera,

• finger paints, markers, crayons and clay.

• Zip zippers and lace laces and tie shoes

• Put together a 20 to 25-piece puzzle.

• Print the letters of the alphabet in upper and lowercase.

• Print numbers 1 to 20.

• Incorporate correctly drawn circles, squares and triangles to draw a recognizable figure.

• Can thread a child size needle and weave a simple project.

 

GROSS MOTOR SKILLS

 

• Enjoys the freedom to run and jump during gym and playground time.

• Gallop, skip, hop on one foot ten times.

• Pedal on a bicycle

• Catch a ball away from the body with hands only.

• Throw a ball and beanbag through a hoop.

• Throw a ball and a beanbag slightly higher in the air and catch it on the way down.

• Throw a ball overhand and underhand.

• Catch a ball when thrown.

• Walk forward and backwards on a 10 foot line without falling off. Crab & elephant walk

• Wheel barrel with adult holding leg

 

 

LANGUAGE SKILLS

 

• Retell an incident that occurred in correct sequence.

• Recite many common nursery rhymes and songs.

• Make relevant contributions in small group discussions.

• Describe an object using color, size, shape, composition and use.

• Speaks clearly.

• Can sit and listen to a story, to the teacher and/or a classmate in a large

• group for 15 to 20 minutes.

• State full name, address, phone number, and birthday.

• Speaks in complete sentences, using correct tense and speech patterns.

• Follow 3 to 4 part directions.

• Describe a picture using three statements.

• Show an understanding of past, present, and future tense by using proper

• verb forms.