Overview
The main focus of the Pre-K 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. It is a program that extends beyond our 4-year-old program in that it encourages children to increase their attention span, complete a project from start to finish, and encourages growth in a child’s ability to articulate thoughts and ideas to others. Because children complete the majority of projects on their own, their fine motor skills and listening skills are sharpened as they follow directions, and do their own tracing, cutting, and pasting. This program helps to prepare and nurture children who could benefit from an extra year to grow and gain confidence before kindergarten.
Class Times
Afternoon: M-TH 12:30 - 3:15 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
- Participation in classroom activities
- Using hands appropriately
- Showing respect and listening to others
- Demonstrating self-control
- Following classroom routine
- Listening attentively to stories
- Recognizing name in print
- Using words and ideas to express needs
- Counting up to 20 objects
- Cutting, pasting, and placing neatly
- Copying simple letters and patterns
- Sequencing from left to right
- Grasping a pencil appropriately
- Cutting and tracing both straight lines and curved lines
- Tracing over lines, curves, and shapes
- Throwing a ball with accuracy
- Walking balanced on a straight line
- Knowing God loves them
- Understanding that loving each other means being kind to one another
- Knowing that the Bible is God's Word
- Memorizing Bible verses
Activities that Reinforce
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- 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