Overview
The main focus of the 4's program is to strengthen already developing readiness skills. Much time is spent in helping each individual child to develop self-confidence, independence, pre-reading, and pre-math skills. This program helps to prepare children academically and socially for kindergarten.
Class Times
Afternoon: M/W/F 12:45 – 3:30 pm
Program Objectives
Instill within each child the knowledge that God loves them.
Provide an away-from-home experience that builds independence, social development, creativity, a positive self-image, a sense of achievement and security, a joy of learning, a thirst for knowledge, self-expression, and self-control.
To extend a child's home to include the school environment.
Skills Aimed to Achieve
Social Development
- Willingness to share
- Playing cooperatively with other children
- Listening while others speak
- Using “Please” and “Thank You”
- Participating willingly in games and group activities
- Following classroom routine
- Listening attentively to stories
- Attempting to complete tasks independently
Cognitive Development
- Recognizing name in print
- Recognizing and naming shapes and colors
- Counting up to 10 objects
- Identifying objects as same/different
- Identifying rhyming words
Motor Development (fine and gross)
- Grasping a pencil appropriately
- Cutting and tracing both straight lines and curved lines
- Walking a straight line successfully
- Throwing and catching a large ball
- Balancing on one foot
Spiritual Development
- Knowing God loves them
- Understanding that prayer is talking to God
- Knowing that the Bible is God's Word
- Acting toward others in a way that reflects God's Love
Activities that Reinforce
Social Development
- Play activities, role playing, modeling by teachers and peers
- Group snack times
- Planned center activities, story times, book-sharing opportunities
- Art, Music, and Movement Activities
- Indoor and outdoor large motor play.
Cognitive Development
- Gaining sense of self
- Working on senses
- Memory games and logical thinking skills
- Art centers and creative play
- Language development
- Math and counting games
- Classifying, patterning, rhyming, and sorting
- Alphabet and name recognition.
Motor Development (fine and gross)
- Running, jumping, climbing
- Throwing/Catching balls, balancing, hopping, parachute play
- Cutting with scissors on curved and straight lines
- Play-Doh, building with blocks
- Clapping, galloping, marching, rhythm activities
- Puzzles and finger painting
- Tracing lines and Stringing beads
Spiritual Development
- Bible stories and verse memorization
- Praying before snack
- Praying for a sick friend
- Integrating Biblical truths into everyday activities
- Classroom service projects
- Felt stories, music, songs, and finger plays