PRAYER
The student will recognize that prayer is listening and talking to God.

· Sign of the Cross

· Know simple prayers: Grace, Glory Be

· Introduce Our Father, Hail Mary

SCRIPTURE
The student will understand, by listening to Bible stories, that the Bible contains God’s word for His people and teaches love for God and those around us.

RECOGNIZE GOD IN CREATION
The student will discover the wonders of the world God has created for us and that He loves and cares for His children. The student will appreciate his own family and recognize we are all a part of God’s special family.

· Mary, Joseph, and Jesus as the Holy Family

SOCIAL JUSTICE
The student will develop an awareness of the gifts God has given him and God’s desire that these gifts be shared with others. The student will grow in understanding the need to take care of the poor, the sick, and the helpless.

CATHOLIC TRADITION
The student will develop an awareness of the Holy Days and holidays that occur within the liturgical year.

· Advent/Christmas

· Lent/Easter

· Saints (Valentine’s Day, St. Patrick’s Day)

PERSONAL
The student will:

The student will:

The student will:

· Discriminate difference between letters and numbers.

· Understand concepts of print (i.e. left to right/top to bottom, directionality, parts of a book, etc).

· Distinguish between print and pictures to show awareness of printed words.

· Point to print as words are spoken to show awareness of print and that it conveys a message.

· Recognize and identify environmental print, including signs and labels.

The student will:

· Recognize first name and letters of own name.

· Identify all uppercase and lowercase alphabet letters.

PHONEMIC AND PHONOLOGICAL AWARENESS

The student will:

· Identify sounds in the environment.

· Identify and produce spoken words that rhyme.

· Recognize letter-sound correspondence.

· Produce letter-sound correspondence with increasing ease and accuracy.
 

BACKGROUND KNOWLEDGE AND VOCABULARY DEVELOPMENT

The student will:

· Use new vocabulary words to talk about life experiences.

· Connect vocabulary and life experiences to ideas/themes in literature.
 

The student will:

· Show interest in reading for different purposes. (see Listening)

· Make predictions about story events.

· Retell stories with attentiveness to sequence of events and main ideas.

· Ask and answer questions about literature.
 

The student will:

· Show interest in a range of Pre-kindergarten leveled text such as alphabet books, stories, poems, and informational texts.

PRINT AWARENESS

The student will:

· Use left-to-right and top-to-bottom direction when writing.

· Use spacing between letters and words.

SPELLING

The student will:

· Write own first name correctly.

HANDWRITING

The student will:

· Write some uppercase and lowercase manuscript letters and numbers.

· Write own first name, capitalizing only the first letter.

The student will:

· “Write” by using painting, drawing, letters, or other graphics to represent a word or concept.

· Dictate words, phrases, and/or sentences to an adult recording on paper.

The student will:

· “Write” and draw spontaneously to communicate meaning.

· Show interest in sharing writing and drawing with others.

The student will:

· Listen attentively to spoken language (i.e. books read aloud, rhyming words, songs).

· Listen attentively for different purposes (i.e. to gain information, to communicate with others, for social interaction and enjoyment).

· Understand and follow two-step verbal directions.

· Listen respectfully without interrupting others.

· Attend to a listening activity for a specified period of time.

The student will:

· Use Prekindergarten-level vocabulary and grammar in own speech.

· Speak for different purposes.

· Speak with increasing ease, accuracy, speed, expression, and volume appropriate for the purpose.

· Take turns when speaking in a group.

· Participate with confidence and success in oral discussion.

· Speak in complete sentences when required.

· Vocalize with proper articulation in conversation.

· Identify primary and secondary colors.

· Sort and classify by size, color, shape, texture.

· Demonstrate some understanding of 1:1 correspondence using manipulatives.

· Identify the common property in a group of objects.

· Express understanding of math concepts as they relate to everyday life (e.g. cooking, colors of clothing, sharing candy, having enough).

· Describe similarities and differences between objects.

· Sort objects into groups by a characteristic and begin to explain how the grouping was done.

· Count objects to ten or higher in 1:1 correspondence.

· Count to 20 or higher (rote).

· Identify numerals 0 to 10.

· Observe numbers in the environment.

· Identify between more or less/fewer/greater.

· Compare sets using terms more, less, same as, equal, before, after, over, under, next to, beside, behind, in front of, beginning, middle, end, inside, outside, above, and below using manipulatives.

· Recognize through manipulatives that numbers can be expressed in different ways.

· Develop the idea that the last number counted in a set indicates how many things there are in a set (numbers 0-10).

· Recognize fractions as part of a whole and group (e.g. segments of an orange) half and whole.

· Name “how many” are in a group of up to three (or more) objects without counting (e.g. recognize 2 or 3 in a box).

· Recognize and describe concept of zero (meaning there are none).

· Identify first and last in a series.

· Identify ordinals first through fifth.

· Combine, separate and name “how many” concrete objects.

· Cover an area with shapes (e.g. tiles).

· Fill a shape with solids or liquids (e.g. ice cubes, water).

· Make size comparisons between objects (taller than, smaller than).

· Use tools to imitate measuring.

· Understand simple time concepts of day, night, yesterday, today and tomorrow.

· Categorize time intervals and use language associated with time in everyday situations (e.g. in the morning, after snack).

· Order 2 or 3 objects by size such as largest to smallest.

· Participate in activities that involve weighing, first in hands and then on balance scales.

· Explore and predict length, width, height, weight, and capacity using nonstandard units of measurement.

· Identify and extend simple patterns of shapes, color and size using manipulatives.

· Represent patterns pictorially.

· Develop calendar skills (days of week, season).

· Imitate pattern sounds and physical movements (e.g. clap, stomp, clap, stomp).

· Recognize and reproduce simple patterns of concrete objects (string of beads).

· Recognize patterns in environment, such as day follows night, repeated phrases in a storybook, patterns in carpeting and clothing and patterns in nature.

· Predict what comes next when patterns are extended (sequencing).

· Order objects by size (small, medium, large), shape, height, length, weight, color.

· Identify and match shapes of square, circle, rectangle, triangle, oval, heart, diamond, star.

· Identify shapes in the environment.

· Recognize when a shape’s position or orientation has changed.

PROBABILITY AND STATISTICS

· Participate in activities which involve predicting possible outcomes e.g.: stacking blocks until the pile falls.

· Practice estimating using phrases about as long as, almost as long as, heavier than, and wider than.

· Use spinners, dice, etc. for decision making in games and in choosing activities.

· Discuss probability of events e.g.: whether a bean bag will land on an indicated spot.

The student will:

· Investigate what living things need to stay alive.

· Identify similarities and differences among living and nonliving things.

· Sort objects into groups and begin to describe how groups were organized.

· Recognize that offspring resemble their parents.

· Describe the major stages in the life cycles of living things.

· Describe the characteristics of plants and animals in relation to their environments.

· Describe how plants and animals depend on/complement each other.

· Identify ways humans have affected their environment.

The student will:

· Describe weather and seasonal changes.

· Describe the relationship among air, water, and land on Earth.

· Observe and describe properties of materials using appropriate tools.

· Describe chemical and physical changes.

· Describe a variety of forms of energy (heat, light).

· Describe the effects of push/pull, gravity, magnetism.

HEALTH

The student will:

· Describe how the body grows (nails, hair, bones) and heals (cuts/bruises).

· Describe the basic life functions of common living things.

· Describe survival behaviors of some living things.

· Describe factors that promote good health and growth in humans.

The student will:

· Identify the parts of the computer-the monitor, keyboard, CPU, speakers, mouse, CD ROM, printer.

· Use basic computer related terms-hardware, software, click, CD ROM, web page, cursor.

· Demonstrate proper care of hardware and software.

SKILLS OBJECTIVES

The student will:

· Identify some letters and numbers on the keyboard.

· Move, point and click the mouse.

· Put the CD in the CD ROM drive.

· Start a program using an icon on the desktop.

· Click on, drag and move objects around on the screen.

· Navigate through simple appropriate age level programs.

· Print from an activity using the print button.

The student will:

· Use creativity programs such as Paint, Kid Pix.

· Select and launch drill and practice software using icons on the desktop.

· Interact with drill and practice software.

· Participate in talking and singing along with characters in program.

· Quit the drill and practice application.

The student will:

· Share ideas and take turns listening and speaking.

· Cooperate with others in a joint activity.

· Identify and follow classroom rules.

· Participate in classroom jobs and contribute to classroom community.

· Learn about roles as citizens by accepting responsibilities in classroom and learning.

· Identify similarities among people (i.e. self and classmates, as well as among self and people from other cultures).

· Examine a situation from another person’s perspective.

HISTORY

The student will:

· Identify common events and routines in the classroom.

· Categorize time intervals using vocabulary: today, tomorrow, yesterday.

· Recognize personal and environmental changes over time (i.e. growth).

· Connect past events to current events through repetition and scheduling (i.e. yesterday’s activity links to an event today)

· Examine cause and effect relationships.

GEOGRAPHY

The student will:

· Identify common features in the home and school environments.

· Create simple representations of home, school, and community through drawings or block construction.

· Use words to indicate relative location (front, back, near, far)

· Identify common features of the local landscape (houses, buildings, streets)

· Recite full name, address (number and street), phone number.

The student will:

· Understand the basic human needs of all people—food, shelter, clothing.

· Understand the roles, responsibilities, and services provided by the community.

· Gain awareness of what it means to be a consumer.

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Calendar of Events – Highlights

September:     All About Me/ Apples/ Johnny Appleseed/ Colors/ Farm

October:          Halloween/ Shapes/ Fall Season/ Numbers

November:      Thanksgiving/ Letter Recognition/ scissor use/ Community Helpers

December:      Christmas/Families/ Begin sight word recognition

January:          Winter Theme/ Kindness/ Snow

February:        Valentines/ 100th day of school

March:              Spring/Baby Animals/St. Patrick’s

April:                 Easter/ Plants/ 3-4 step directions

May:                  Mothers Day/ flowers/ water

June:                Summer safety/ The sun/ Getting ready for Kindergarten