Curriculum Meeting

PreK3 and PreK4Holy Trinity Episcopal School

September 22nd at 8:00 AM

Nancy Bryan and Nici Esch

Overview of Academics

• Weather

• Seasons

• Apples

• 5 senses

• Months of the year

• Holidays

Fun Activities

• Author’s Box

• Show and Tell

• Field Trips

• Mailbox Center

• Name of the Day

Reading

• Pre reading skills are the skills children need BEFORE they can learn to read. Many of these skills are learned naturally, during the course of a normal childhood and nursery environment. Talking and reading to your child will assist in developing these essential skills.

• Pre-reading Skills• Matching – children learn to match shapes, patterns, letters and finally, words

• Rhyming

• Letter skills – Identifying letters learning what sounds the letters can make

• Direction – print goes from left to right

• Motor Sills – Since reading and writing are best taught together, pencil control is important

Reading

• Concepts of print – this really means “how we look at books”

• Language Skills• Listening to stories

• Speaking

• Hearing

• Reading Groups

• Poetry Notebooks

Writing

• Using drawings to stand for writing

• Scribbling, but intends it as writing

• Using letters – like symbols

• Using random letters or letter strings

• Using inventive spelling

• Daily journals

Math

• Counting by tens to 100

• Use one–to-one correspondence to count objects

• Recognize and write numbers 0-20

• Puts together puzzles

• Begin size comparisons

• Begin to categorize time

• Classification

Social Development

• Cooperate with others in a joint activity

• Identify and follow class rules

• Participate in classroom jobs and contribute to the classroom community

Most Important!

• Children have fun and love learning…