Curriculum:
We are using "Core Knowledge" Preschool Curriculum as a
base for our daily lesson plans.  G.P.A. Preschool is registered
as a
"Friends of Core Knowledge" Preschool Program.  
We are also using the
"Hands on Bible" Curriculum for our
bible lessons.  Bellow you will find the skills covered each
month along, daily lesson plans will be posted in the classroom
for parents to see.
Yearly Themes:
August:
September:
October:
November:
December:
Welcome!
I am special
Assessments
All about school
A,B,C
1,2
Circle
Red, Blue
Transportation
Bears
Open House
Friends & Manners
D,E,F.
3,4
Square
Purple
Health & Safety
Nursery Rhymes
Opposites
Fall, Nature
G,H,I
5,6
Octagon
Orange, Black
Nutrition & 5 Senses
Family
Thanksgiving
Fall Harvest
J,K,L
7,8
Rectangle
Yellow, Brown
Around the World
Holidays
Christmas Program
Parent Conferences
M,N,O
9,10
Triangle
White, Green
January:
February:
March:
April:
May:
New Year & Winter
Community Helpers
Animals
Martin Luther King Jr.
P,Q,R
11,12
Star
Silver, Gray
Day & Night
Love, Valentine's Day
Rodeo, Dental Hygiene
Dinosaurs
S,T,U
13,14
Heart
Pink, Gold
Dental Hygiene
How Things Grow
Spring & Bugs
Outer Space
Farm Animals
V,W,X
15,16
Oval
Easter
Rainy Days
Mother Earth
Sea Life
Assessments
Y,Z
17,18
Review
Parent Conferences
Summer Fun
Mother's Day
Graduation
19,20
August:
September:
October:
November:
December:
Level I:

Movement:   Attention: stop-start   
   with signal
Autonomy / Social Skills:  Name
recognition: oral and written.  Body
parts: face.  Teacher and
classmates by name.  Sit among
others; stay in own space.  Carry
out chores and responsibilities.
Oral Language:  Adapt volume of
voice.  Object / person / picture
match with description.
Nursery Rhymes, Poems,
Fingerplays, songs:
  Memorize
and recite nursery rhymes.   
Pat-a-cake, This Little Piggy,   
Happy Birthday, Rain, Rain, Go
Away.
Storybook Reading and
Storytelling:
Listen to picture books read aloud.  
Find the object / illustration being
described.  "Three Little Pigs"
Emerging Literacy Skills in
Reading and Writing:
  Recognize
   written first name.  Small muscle
control activities.  Tear, fold and
paste.
Mathematical Reasoning:  
Pairs of objects / pictures as same
or different.
Orientation in Time and
Space:
  
Space: in a line / row.
Scientific Reasoning:   identify  
   body parts: face.
Music:   Sound localization.
Visual Arts:   Collage, tear, paste.  
Colors: red, blue.


Level II:

Movement:   Relax specific body
muscles and/or the whole body,
from high activity level to quiet
state.  Throw and kick object with
increasing accuracy at a target.  
Game: "Red light, Green Light"
Autonomy, Social Skills:  Draw
a dimensional picture of a person.  
Recognize, call by name and indicate
role of school personnel.
Work Habits:   Return toys and
materials to their proper location.
Oral Language:   Understand and
use intonation and emphasis to ask a
question, express surprise,
agreement, displeasure, urgency.  
After listening to an oral
description of a scene, recreate the
scene in picture.  Suquence and
describe 3-5 images of events or
phrases of a single event that have
been experienced.
Nursery Rhymes, Poems,
Fingerplays, Songs:
  Memorize
and recite independently a simple   
rhyme,  poem, fingerplay or song.
Rhymes: "Who Stole the Cookie
from the Cookie Jar?" "Pledge of
Allegiance" "Doctor Foster" "Rice
a Cock Horse" "Twinkle, Twinkle
Little Star"
Storybook Reading and
Storytelling:
Attend and listen to picture books
with storylines as well as
nonfiction.  Sequence 5
illustrations of story events.
Emerging Literacy Skills in
Reading and Writing:
  Use a
simplified, illustrated daily   
schedule of activities.  Read the
first names of classmates.  Hold a
writing instrument correctly.  
Writing strokes: horizontal,
vertical lines, spiral, circle.
Mathematical Reasoning:   
Identify pairs of objects / pictures
as same or different.  Sort objects /
pictures according to color, shape,
size or function.  Complete puzzles
of at least 18 pieces.  Recite
number sequence 1-10.
Orientation in Time and
Space:
  
Time: Sequence chronologically and
describe 3-5 images of events or
phases of events that have been
experienced.  Time: Name the days  
of the week in sequence.  Time
Name the days of the weekend.  
Time: use a simple, illustrated
schedule of daily activities to
indicate which activity preceded
and which will follow the current
activity.  Space: in-on-outside,
inside-outside, under-over.  Space:
follow or give oral, spatially
oriented directions to move from
one location  to another.
Scientific Reasoning:   Identify
body parts, including the following
organs: heart, lungs.  Identify the
body part and sense associated with
certain sensations.
Music:   Identify pairs of sounds as
either the same or different.  
Identify and associate sounds with
the rhythm instruments that make
them.
Visual Arts:   Play games requiring
matching of like images, such as
domino games.  Collage.
Level I:

Movement:   Attention: stop-start   
   with signal
Autonomy / Social Skills:  Name
recognition: oral and written.  Body
parts: face.  Teacher and
classmates by name.  Sit among
others; stay in own space.  Carry
out chores and responsibilities.
Oral Language:  Adapt volume of
voice.  Object / person / picture
match with description.
Nursery Rhymes, Poems,
Fingerplays, songs:
  Memorize
and recite nursery rhymes.   
Pat-a-cake, This Little Piggy,   
Happy Birthday, Rain, Rain, Go
Away.
Storybook Reading and
Storytelling:
Listen to picture books read aloud.  
Find the object / illustration being
described.  "Three Little Pigs"
Emerging Literacy Skills in
Reading and Writing:
  Recognize
   written first name.  Small muscle
control activities.  Tear, fold and
paste.
Mathematical Reasoning:  
Pairs of objects / pictures as same
or different.
Orientation in Time and
Space:
  
Space: in a line / row.
Scientific Reasoning:   identify  
   body parts: face.
Music:   Sound localization.
Visual Arts:   Collage, tear, paste.  
Colors: red, blue.


Level II:

Movement:   Relax specific body
muscles and/or the whole body,
from high activity level to quiet
state.  Throw and kick object with
increasing accuracy at a target.  
Game: "Red light, Green Light"
Autonomy, Social Skills:  Draw
a dimensional picture of a person.  
Recognize, call by name and indicate
role of school personnel.
Work Habits:   Return toys and
materials to their proper location.
Oral Language:   Understand and
use intonation and emphasis to ask a
question, express surprise,
agreement, displeasure, urgency.  
After listening to an oral
description of a scene, recreate the
scene in picture.  Suquence and
describe 3-5 images of events or
phrases of a single event that have
been experienced.
Nursery Rhymes, Poems,
Fingerplays, Songs:
  Memorize
and recite independently a simple   
rhyme,  poem, fingerplay or song.
Rhymes: "Who Stole the Cookie
from the Cookie Jar?" "Pledge of
Allegiance" "Doctor Foster" "Rice
a Cock Horse" "Twinkle, Twinkle
Little Star"
Storybook Reading and
Storytelling:
Attend and listen to picture books
with storylines as well as
nonfiction.  Sequence 5
illustrations of story events.
Emerging Literacy Skills in
Reading and Writing:
  Use a
simplified, illustrated daily   
schedule of activities.  Read the
first names of classmates.  Hold a
writing instrument correctly.  
Writing strokes: horizontal,
vertical lines, spiral, circle.
Mathematical Reasoning:   
Identify pairs of objects / pictures
as same or different.  Sort objects /
pictures according to color, shape,
size or function.  Complete puzzles
of at least 18 pieces.  Recite
number sequence 1-10.
Orientation in Time and
Space:
  
Time: Sequence chronologically and
describe 3-5 images of events or
phases of events that have been
experienced.  Time: Name the days  
of the week in sequence.  Time
Name the days of the weekend.  
Time: use a simple, illustrated
schedule of daily activities to
indicate which activity preceded
and which will follow the current
activity.  Space: in-on-outside,
inside-outside, under-over.  Space:
follow or give oral, spatially
oriented directions to move from
one location  to another.
Scientific Reasoning:   Identify
body parts, including the following
organs: heart, lungs.  Identify the
body part and sense associated with
certain sensations.
Music:   Identify pairs of sounds as
either the same or different.  
Identify and associate sounds with
the rhythm instruments that make
them.
Visual Arts:   Play games requiring
matching of like images, such as
domino games.  Collage.
Level I:

Movement:   Up/down steps.  
Balance: change body position,
same space.
Autonomy / Social Skills:  Body
parts: body.  Good hygiene.  
Acknowledge and return greetings,
farewells.  Wait turn to speak.  
Stop when told; change activities.
Work Habits:   Put away toys and
materials.
Oral Language:  Describe   
attributes of object / person /
picture.  
Express personal needs, desires.
Nursery Rhymes, Poems,
Fingerplays, songs:
  "Head and
Shoulders, Knees and Toes,"
"Where is Thumbkin," "Open,
Shut Them," "Rock-A-Bye Baby"
Storybook Reading and
Storytelling:
 Hold book correctly,
turn pages, describe an illustration.
"Goldilocks and the Three Bears"
Emerging Literacy Skills in
Reading and Writing:
   Produce
written marks (lines, scribbles) on
horizontal, vertical surfaces.
Mathematical Reasoning:    
Sort by color.
Orientation in Time and
Space:
  Time: Day-night;
morning-afternoon-evening.  Time:
classify, describe activities
according to the time of day.
Scientific Reasoning:   Identify
body parts - body.
Music:   Pairs of sounds as same or
different.
Visual Arts:   Painting.  Colors:
Yellow, green.


Level II:

Movement:   Maintain balance on
beam, walking forward, backward,
sideways.  Navigate obstacle
course using different movements.  
Game: "Duck Duck Goose"
Autonomy, Social Skills:  
Dress self independently.  Respect
the personal belongings of others.  
Interrupt a conversation politely.
Oral Language:   Describe
oneself, home and immediate
family.  Carry on a conversation
with another child.
Nursery Rhymes, Poems,
Fingerplays, Songs:
  "Peter,
Peter, Pumpkin Eater" "I'm a
Little Teapot" "Oh Where, Oh
Where Has My Little Dog Gone?"
Storybook Reading and
Storytelling:
  Retell a story that
has been read aloud.  
Emerging Literacy Skills in
Reading and Writing:
  Dictate a
simple letter, invitation or thank
you note.  Writing strokes: moon,
cross.  Trace and then draw
independently outlines of
geometric shapes, irregular forms.
Mathematical Reasoning:   
Classify objects / pictures according
to color of shape.  Compare groups of
objects of no more than 6 objects /
group and use quantitive vocabulary
to describe them.  Demonstrate 1-1
correspondence with concrete
objects, up to and including 6
objects.  Construct a collection of
objects having the same number as
another group, up to 6 objects.
Orientation in Time and
Space:
  
Time: name the current day of the
week, the day that was yesterday and
the day that will be tomorrow.
Time: Name and locate the day and
month on a calendar.
Time: Use monthly calendar to name
holidays and special events marked
by symbols.
Space: between, at the corner of,
above-below.
Space: Trace the path described on a
picture map in which different
objects represent different
landmarks.
Scientific Reasoning:   Care
for, observe and record observations
of an animal.
Select and use appropriate tool for
particular task: cut-scissors, join
paper-staple.
Music:   Identify classmates by
voice alone.  Imitate clapping
pattern sequences of at least 4 claps
per patter that vary in tempo,
number and length of pauses between
claps.
Visual Arts:  Use scissors and
stapler as needed in completing art
projects.  Sculpture.  
Level I:

Movement:   Balance, walk
forward on beam, throw / kick
object.
Autonomy / Social Skills:  
Draw stick figure.  Attend and
listen while others speak.  Table
manners.  Greet adults: Mr., Mrs.,
Ms.
Oral Language:  Describe event
or task as it is taking place.
Nursery Rhymes, Poems,
around the Rosies" and "Teddy Bear,
Teddy Bear"
Storybook Reading and
Storytelling:
"The Lion and Mouse" and
"Thanksgiving Day Celebration"
Emerging Literacy Skills in
Reading and Writing:
  Paste
stickers on horizontal, vertical
lines, spiral.
Mathematical Reasoning:  
Match shapes to outlines.  Sort by
shape.  Identify circles by name.
Orientation in Time and
Space:
  
Time: Name the current day of the
week.
Time:  Use a schedule of daily
activities to describe order of
events.
Space: in a circle.
Scientific Reasoning:   
Describe objects using the senses:
vision.
Music:   Identify environmental
sounds.
Visual Arts:   Use stickers.  
Colors: Orange, Brown


Level II:

Movement:   Ride a tricycle.  
Game: Musical Chairs
Autonomy, Social Skills:  Ask
appropriately for help.  Offer
assistance to another child.
Work Habits:   Memorize address,
phone number, date of birth.
Oral Language:   Identify and
express physical sensations, mental
states, emotional feelings using
words.
Nursery Rhymes, Poems,
Fingerplays, Songs:
  Interpret
ad act out through pantomime a
rhyme, poem or fingerplay using
one's own gestures.
Rhymes: "Here we go round the
mulberry bush"
"Do your ears hang low"
Storybook Reading and
Storytelling:
Predict events in a story.  Provide a
new story ending.  Stories:
"Thanksgiving"
Emerging Literacy Skills in
Reading and Writing:
  Dictate
a description to accompany one's
drawings of people, objects, events
or activities, derived from
experience or imagination.  Follow
a simple recipe.  Writing strokes,
cane, hook.
Mathematical Reasoning:   
Classify objects / pictures
according to size, function or other
conceptual categories.
Identify and verbally label the single
common characteristics of a group
of objects / pictures.  Identify and
verbally label the differences or
criteria used for the classification
of several groups of objects /
pictures.  Classify and name shapes
as circles, rectangles and triangles.  
Count groups of objects with up to 6
objects .
Given an oral number, create groups
with the corresponding numbers of
objects.

Orientation in Time and
Space:
  
Time: Name and notate date of birth
on monthly calendar.
Time: Identify a horizontal series
of seven squares as representing
one week on a monthly calendar.
Space: Toward, against, before-after
Space: Reproduce a pattern card
design using parquetry blocks,
mosaics or pegs.
Space: Forest
Scientific Reasoning:   
Identify and describe basic human
needs; food and drink, shelter and
protection from temperature and
weather.  Select and use
appropriate tool for a particular
task: nail - join wood, hammer.
Music:  Use musical instruments
or other objects to imitate a
sequence of three or more sounds
made by more than one instrument.
Listen to the environmental sounds
presented as a sound story and
describe the events and context in
which they are occurring.
Visual Arts:   Demonstrate
memory of visual details by playing
concentration type of memory
games.  Demonstrate memory of
colors found in nature painting
Level I:

Movement:   Situate self within
space of defined boundaries.  Move
through space in different ways, no
obstacles. Throw / kick object
Game: London Bridge
Autonomy / Social Skills:  Put
on clothing.  Make / acknowledge
requests politely.
Oral Language:  Carry on a
conversation with adult.  Describe
an event in the immediate past.  Use
present and past verb tense.  
Understand and use increasingly
elaborate declarative sentences.
Nursery Rhymes, Poems,
Fingerplays, songs:
  "Pease
Porridge Hot"  "Polly put the kettle
on" "Old Mac Donald"
Storybook Reading and
Storytelling:
Repeat / provide refrain  Stories:
"Gingerbread Boy" "Brown Bear,
Brown Bear"
Emerging Literacy Skills in
Reading and Writing:
  Identify
examples of print.  Collect objects
using illustrated list.
Mathematical Reasoning:  
Member / group - does an object
belong to a group?  Copy a pattern of
6-10 objects, alternate one property.
 Match objects to pattern cards.  
Recite the number sequence, 1-4
Orientation in Time and
Space:
  
Time: Before-after.
Space: there-here, near-far, in-on
Space: land-water
Scientific Reasoning:   
Describe objects using sense: taste.
Music:   Sing a musical dialogue in
which two or more groups answer
one another.  Move to music
individually, interpreting and
modifying movements according to
tempo, intensity and rhythm
Instrumental works: Tchaikovsky,
"The Nutcracker"
Visual Arts:   Playing matching
"Lotto" games.  Sculpture, clay or
play doh  Color: purple.


Level II:

Movement:   Act out a nursery
rhyme, poem, fingerplay or other
charade
Autonomy, Social Skills:  Take
turns using toys and sharing
materials.
Work Habits:  Chose and use a toy
or activity independently for a
sustained period of time.
Oral Language:   Describe an
event or task that has already taken
place outside of the immediate time
and place or that will take place.  
Use present, past and future tenses.  
Sort, classify and describe objects/
pictures according to a conceptual
category.
Nursery Rhymes, Poems,
Fingerplays, Songs:
  Using
familiar rhymes, songs, finish a
recitation with the correct rhyming
word.
Rhymes: A Hunting We Will Go
Storybook Reading and
Storytelling:
"Read" / tell a story based on the
illustrations of a book with text that
has not been read previously.
Stories:  "The Little Engine That
Could"  "The Shoemaker and the
Elves"
Emerging Literacy Skills in
Reading and Writing:
  
Associate spoken and written
language by matching written word
labels with spoken words.  Segment
a spoken sentence into separate,
distinct words.  Point to words as
distinct units on a page of print.  
Writing strokes: bowl, bridge,
diagonal line.
Mathematical Reasoning:   
Select an object / picture according
to a description that includes two
properties.  Use a double entry
table.  Find examples of circles and
rectangles in everyday objects.
Orientation in Time and
Space:
  
Time: Sequence images depicting
the evolution and completion of a
project or undertaking over an
extended period of time.
Space: high-low, face to face - back
to back.
Space: copy a tower or construction
that has been made by another
person, using blocks of different
shapes, colors or sizes.
Space: mountain
Scientific Reasoning:   
Observe, describe and record some
basic properties of water, its
presence and effects in the world.  
Select and use the appropriate tool
for a particular task; join fabric -
needle and thread.
Music:   
Accompany a story or musical piece
by introducing original sound effects
at the appropriate moment.  Sing a
round for 2 or more groups.
Visual Arts:   
Use needle and thread to complete an
art project.
Drawing
Work with other children to create
a collective work of art.
January:
February:
March:
April:
May:
Level I:

Movement:   
Move through obstacle courses.
Play catch with bean bag.
Imitate position / single action of
another.
Game: Follow the leader.
Work Habits:
Choose and use toy / activity
independently.
Oral Language:  
Answer telephone
Sequence and describe 3 images of
events that have been experienced at
temporally distinct times of the day.
Ask or answer questions beginning
with who, what, where, when, why.
Nursery Rhymes, Poems,
Fingerplays, songs:
  
Clap / tap the beat of a nursery rhyme
Rhymes: One for the money
Storybook Reading and
Storytelling:
Answer questions about the
characters, setting, plot and events
of a story.
Stories: "Curious George"  "The
Snowy Day"
Emerging Literacy Skills in
Reading and Writing:
  
Color a simple drawing
Writing strokes: horizontal, vertical
lines, point
Mathematical Reasoning:  
Continue a pattern of 5 objects,
alternate one property.
complete puzzles of at least 10 pieces.
Compare groups of up to 4 objects
and use quantitive vocabulary.
Orientation in Time and
Space:
  
Time: Today-Tomorrow
Time: Use a weekly calendar to
locate day of the week.
Time: Sequence and describe 3
images of events that have been
experienced at temporally distinct
times.
Space: Next to - away from, in front
of - behind, up-down
Space: River
Scientific Reasoning:   
Describe objects using senses:
hearing
Music:   
Produce sounds that are loud or soft,
long or short vocally imitate isolated
sounds.
Visual Arts:   
Memory of visual details
Printing
Drawing

Level II:

Movement:   
Play catch with a partner using a
large ball.
Autonomy, Social Skills:  
Complete an activity or project in
conjuction with another child or
group.
Accept the consequences of actions,
positive and negative.
Work Habits:   Return toys and
materials to their proper location.
Oral Language:   Identify and
name simple opposites.
Assume a different role or
perspective and express different
possibilities, imaginary or realistic.
Nursery Rhymes, Poems,
Fingerplays, Songs:
  
Rhymes: One potato, two potato
Storybook Reading and
Storytelling:
Use cover and illustration clues to
locate books that pertain to a
particular topic or answer a question.
Stories: Martin Luther King.  "First
Discovery Books"
Emerging Literacy Skills in
Reading and Writing:
  
Blend two parts of a compound word
or two syllables.
Represent "in written form"
following an actual experience;  
directions for completing a recipe,
or craft, scientific observations of
experiments, events.
Writing strokes; wave, x, star,
zigzag line
Sing the ABC song.
Mathematical Reasoning:   
Continue a complex, 2-color pattern
of objects as represented by a
pattern card.
Create and verbally describe a
pattern of concrete objects.
Divide an object into approximately
equal pieces for 2 people.
Name and match the numerals 1-6
with the corresponding quantities.
Orientation in Time and
Space:
  
Time: Use a year-long timeline to
mark events.
Time: Sequence and describe photos
and / or drawings that represent a
timeline of one's life and
experiences.
Time: Sequence photos and / or
drawings of a baby, school-age child,
young adult, elderly adult and
describe in terms of the progression
of the stages of development in the
life of one person.
Space: Match halves of simmetrical
objects to make wholes.
Space: Mark the location of specific
objects, places on a simple map of a
familiar location.
Space: jungle
Scientific Reasoning:  
Sequence photos and /or drawings of
a baby, school-age child, young adult
and elderly adult to represent the life
cycle.
Music:   Move to music, individually
interpreting and modifying one's
movements, according to the tempo,
intensity and rythm.
Instrumental works of: Mozart
Visual Arts:  
Painting,
Level I:

Movement:   Act out pantomime /
charade
Game: Simon Says
Work Habits:  
Work in orderly, persistent manner
Follow single-step oral directions.
Oral Language:  
Ask or answer increasingly elaborate
questions (other than those beginning
with the 5 "W's")
Nursery Rhymes, Poems,
Fingerplays, songs:
  "Did you
ever see a lassie?"  "Oh, do you know
the muffin man?"
Storybook Reading and
Storytelling:
Sequence illustrations of 3 story
events.
Stories:
"Ask Mr. Bear"
"Are You My Mother?"
Emerging Literacy Skills in
Reading and Writing:
  
Dictate a caption for a photo or
drawing.
Writing strokes: spiral
Mathematical Reasoning:  
Demonstrate 1-1 correspondence, up
to 4 objects.
Make a collection with the same
number of objects as another
collection, up to 4 objects.
Orientation in Time and Space:
Time: Identify by name: - clock,
schedule, calendar
Space: Top-middle-bottom, under,
around
Space: farm
Space: reproduce parquetry or
mosaic design, placing objects
directly on design card.
Scientific Reasoning:
Describe objects using senses: touch
Music:   
Indicate the number of sounds heard.
Imitate clapping pattern sequences of
no more than 3 claps / pattern.
Imitate sequence of no more than 3
sounds / sequence.
Visual Arts:   Fold, tape.


Level II:

Movement:   
Complete a circuit or obstacle
course, following arrows or path
indicated.
Autonomy, Social Skills:  
Follow the rules for simple childhood
games, circle games and board games.
Work Habits:  Carry out multi step
oral directions that have been
accompanied by a preliminary
demonstration.
Oral Language:   
Identify outcomes and possible
causes.
Combine simple sentences using "but"
and "or"
Nursery Rhymes, Poems,
Fingerplays, Songs:
  "Are You
Sleeeping?"
"A Tisket, A Tasket"
"Yankee Doodle"
Storybook Reading and
Storytelling:
Make up and tell a story
Stories:
"George Washington"
"Abe Lincoln"
"Madeline"
"Amazing Grace"
Emerging Literacy Skills in
Reading and Writing:
  
Given a sound and two words,
identify the word that begins with
the sound.
Assemble a simple object or craft
following illustrated directions.
Write one's first name.
Mathematical Reasoning:   
Copy / represent and continue "on
paper" an alternating pattern of 1
property or a 2-color pattern.
Compare pairs of objects and use
comparative vocabulary to describe
them: length, height, volume.
Name and write the numerals 1-6 in
sequential order.
Orientation in Time and
Space:
  
Time: sequence photos and / or
drawings of a baby, school-age child,
young adult, elderly adult and describe
in terms of generations in the
context of one family.
Time: Arrange photos and /or
drawings of members of one's own
family on geneological tree or
diagram.
Space: Mark with arrows or other
symbols on a simple map the path that
has been taken from one place to
another.
Space: Use the shortest route to go
from the exterior to the center of a
simple maze.
Scientific Reasoning:
Classify images of animals according
to the habitat or environment in
which they generally live: lake /
river, ocean, farm, forest (woods),
jungle.
Music:   
Identify and associate sounds, with
the instruments that make them
(piano, violin)
Identify a selection of music as
either vocal or instrumental
Maintain the beat of a chant, song.
Visual Arts:   Play games requiring
matching of like images, such as
domino games.  Collage.
Level I:

Movement:   Attention: stop-start  
    with signal
Autonomy / Social Skills:  Name
recognition: oral and written.  Body
parts: face.  Teacher and
classmates by name.  Sit among
others; stay in own space.  Carry
out chores and responsibilities.
Oral Language:  Adapt volume of
voice.  Object / person / picture
match with description.
Nursery Rhymes, Poems,
Fingerplays, songs:
  Memorize
and recite nursery rhymes.   
Pat-a-cake, This Little Piggy,   
Happy Birthday, Rain, Rain, Go
Away.
Storybook Reading and
Storytelling:
Listen to picture books read aloud.  
Find the object / illustration being
described.  "Three Little Pigs"
Emerging Literacy Skills in
Reading and Writing:
  
Recognize    written first name.  
Small muscle
control activities.  Tear, fold and
paste.
Mathematical Reasoning:  
Pairs of objects / pictures as same
or different.
Orientation in Time and
Space:
  
Space: in a line / row.
Scientific Reasoning:   identify
    body parts: face.
Music:   Sound localization.
Visual Arts:   Collage, tear, paste.  
Colors: red, blue.


Level II:

Movement:   Relax specific body
muscles and/or the whole body,
from high activity level to quiet
state.  Throw and kick object with
increasing accuracy at a target.  
Game: "Red light, Green Light"
Autonomy, Social Skills:  Draw
a dimensional picture of a person.  
Recognize, call by name and indicate
role of school personnel.
Work Habits:   Return toys and
materials to their proper location.
Oral Language:   Understand and
use intonation and emphasis to ask a
question, express surprise,
agreement, displeasure, urgency.  
After listening to an oral
description of a scene, recreate the
scene in picture.  Suquence and
describe 3-5 images of events or
phrases of a single event that have
been experienced.
Nursery Rhymes, Poems,
Fingerplays, Songs:
  Memorize
and recite independently a simple   
rhyme,  poem, fingerplay or song.
Rhymes: "Who Stole the Cookie
from the Cookie Jar?" "Pledge of
Allegiance" "Doctor Foster" "Rice
a Cock Horse" "Twinkle, Twinkle
Little Star"
Storybook Reading and
Storytelling:
Attend and listen to picture books
with storylines as well as
nonfiction.  Sequence 5
illustrations of story events.
Emerging Literacy Skills in
Reading and Writing:
  Use a
simplified, illustrated daily   
schedule of activities.  Read the
first names of classmates.  Hold a
writing instrument correctly.  
Writing strokes: horizontal,
vertical lines, spiral, circle.
Mathematical Reasoning:   
Identify pairs of objects / pictures
as same or different.  Sort objects /
pictures according to color, shape,
size or function.  Complete puzzles
of at least 18 pieces.  Recite
number sequence 1-10.
Orientation in Time and
Space:
  
Time: Sequence chronologically and
describe 3-5 images of events or
phases of events that have been
experienced.  Time: Name the days  
of the week in sequence.  Time
Name the days of the weekend.  
Time: use a simple, illustrated
schedule of daily activities to
indicate which activity preceded
and which will follow the current
activity.  Space: in-on-outside,
inside-outside, under-over.  Space:
follow or give oral, spatially
oriented directions to move from
one location  to another.
Scientific Reasoning:   Identify
body parts, including the following
organs: heart, lungs.  Identify the
body part and sense associated with
certain sensations.
Music:   Identify pairs of sounds as
either the same or different.  
Identify and associate sounds with
the rhythm instruments that make
them.
Visual Arts:   Play games requiring
matching of like images, such as
domino games.  Collage.
Level I:

Movement:   Attention: stop-start
     with signal
Autonomy / Social Skills:  
Name
recognition: oral and written.  Body
parts: face.  Teacher and
classmates by name.  Sit among
others; stay in own space.  Carry
out chores and responsibilities.
Oral Language:  Adapt volume of
voice.  Object / person / picture
match with description.
Nursery Rhymes, Poems,
Fingerplays, songs:
  Memorize
and recite nursery rhymes.   
Pat-a-cake, This Little Piggy,   
Happy Birthday, Rain, Rain, Go
Away.
Storybook Reading and
Storytelling:
Listen to picture books read aloud.  
Find the object / illustration being
described.  "Three Little Pigs"
Emerging Literacy Skills in
Reading and Writing:
  
Recognize    written first name.  
Small muscle
control activities.  Tear, fold and
paste.
Mathematical Reasoning:  
Pairs of objects / pictures as same
or different.
Orientation in Time and
Space:
  
Space: in a line / row.
Scientific Reasoning:   
identify     body parts: face.
Music:   Sound localization.
Visual Arts:   Collage, tear, paste.
 
Colors: red, blue.


Level II:

Movement:   Relax specific body
muscles and/or the whole body,
from high activity level to quiet
state.  Throw and kick object with
increasing accuracy at a target.  
Game: "Red light, Green Light"
Autonomy, Social Skills:  Draw
a dimensional picture of a person.  
Recognize, call by name and indicate
role of school personnel.
Work Habits:   Return toys and
materials to their proper location.
Oral Language:   Understand and
use intonation and emphasis to ask a
question, express surprise,
agreement, displeasure, urgency.  
After listening to an oral
description of a scene, recreate the
scene in picture.  Suquence and
describe 3-5 images of events or
phrases of a single event that have
been experienced.
Nursery Rhymes, Poems,
Fingerplays, Songs:
  Memorize
and recite independently a simple   
rhyme,  poem, fingerplay or song.
Rhymes: "Who Stole the Cookie
from the Cookie Jar?" "Pledge of
Allegiance" "Doctor Foster" "Rice
a Cock Horse" "Twinkle, Twinkle
Little Star"
Storybook Reading and
Storytelling:
Attend and listen to picture books
with storylines as well as
nonfiction.  Sequence 5
illustrations of story events.
Emerging Literacy Skills in
Reading and Writing:
  Use a
simplified, illustrated daily   
schedule of activities.  Read the
first names of classmates.  Hold a
writing instrument correctly.  
Writing strokes: horizontal,
vertical lines, spiral, circle.
Mathematical Reasoning:   
Identify pairs of objects / pictures
as same or different.  Sort objects
/ pictures according to color, shape,
size or function.  Complete puzzles
of at least 18 pieces.  Recite
number sequence 1-10.
Orientation in Time and
Space:
  
Time: Sequence chronologically and
describe 3-5 images of events or
phases of events that have been
experienced.  Time: Name the days  
of the week in sequence.  Time
Name the days of the weekend.  
Time: use a simple, illustrated
schedule of daily activities to
indicate which activity preceded
and which will follow the current
activity.  Space: in-on-outside,
inside-outside, under-over.  Space:
follow or give oral, spatially
oriented directions to move from
one location  to another.
Scientific Reasoning:   Identify
body parts, including the following
organs: heart, lungs.  Identify the
body part and sense associated with
certain sensations.
Music:   Identify pairs of sounds as
either the same or different.  
Identify and associate sounds with
the rhythm instruments that make
them.
Visual Arts:   Play games requiring
matching of like images, such as
domino games.  Collage.
Level I:

Movement:   Attention: stop-start
     with signal
Autonomy / Social Skills:  
Name
recognition: oral and written.  Body
parts: face.  Teacher and
classmates by name.  Sit among
others; stay in own space.  Carry
out chores and responsibilities.
Oral Language:  Adapt volume of
voice.  Object / person / picture
match with description.
Nursery Rhymes, Poems,
Fingerplays, songs:
  Memorize
and recite nursery rhymes.   
Pat-a-cake, This Little Piggy,   
Happy Birthday, Rain, Rain, Go
Away.
Storybook Reading and
Storytelling:
Listen to picture books read aloud.  
Find the object / illustration being
described.  "Three Little Pigs"
Emerging Literacy Skills in
Reading and Writing:
  
Recognize    written first name.  
Small muscle
control activities.  Tear, fold and
paste.
Mathematical Reasoning:  
Pairs of objects / pictures as same
or different.
Orientation in Time and
Space:
  
Space: in a line / row.
Scientific Reasoning:   identify
    body parts: face.
Music:   Sound localization.
Visual Arts:   Collage, tear, paste.  
Colors: red, blue.


Level II:

Movement:   Relax specific body
muscles and/or the whole body,
from high activity level to quiet
state.  Throw and kick object with
increasing accuracy at a target.  
Game: "Red light, Green Light"
Autonomy, Social Skills:  Draw
a dimensional picture of a person.  
Recognize, call by name and indicate
role of school personnel.
Work Habits:   Return toys and
materials to their proper location.
Oral Language:   Understand and
use intonation and emphasis to ask a
question, express surprise,
agreement, displeasure, urgency.  
After listening to an oral
description of a scene, recreate the
scene in picture.  Suquence and
describe 3-5 images of events or
phrases of a single event that have
been experienced.
Nursery Rhymes, Poems,
Fingerplays, Songs:
  Memorize
and recite independently a simple   
rhyme,  poem, fingerplay or song.
Rhymes: "Who Stole the Cookie
from the Cookie Jar?" "Pledge of
Allegiance" "Doctor Foster" "Rice
a Cock Horse" "Twinkle, Twinkle
Little Star"
Storybook Reading and
Storytelling:
Attend and listen to picture books
with storylines as well as
nonfiction.  Sequence 5
illustrations of story events.
Emerging Literacy Skills in
Reading and Writing:
  Use a
simplified, illustrated daily   
schedule of activities.  Read the
first names of classmates.  Hold a
writing instrument correctly.  
Writing strokes: horizontal,
vertical lines, spiral, circle.
Mathematical Reasoning:   
Identify pairs of objects / pictures
as same or different.  Sort objects /
pictures according to color, shape,
size or function.  Complete puzzles
of at least 18 pieces.  Recite
number sequence 1-10.
Orientation in Time and
Space:
  
Time: Sequence chronologically and
describe 3-5 images of events or
phases of events that have been
experienced.  Time: Name the days  
of the week in sequence.  Time
Name the days of the weekend.  
Time: use a simple, illustrated
schedule of daily activities to
indicate which activity preceded
and which will follow the current
activity.  Space: in-on-outside,
inside-outside, under-over.  Space:
follow or give oral, spatially
oriented directions to move from
one location  to another.
Scientific Reasoning:   Identify
body parts, including the following
organs: heart, lungs.  Identify the
body part and sense associated with
certain sensations.
Music:   Identify pairs of sounds as
either the same or different.  
Identify and associate sounds with
the rhythm instruments that make
them.
Visual Arts:   Play games requiring
matching of like images, such as
domino games.  Collage.
"Core Knowledge" skills: