Four Year Old Kindergarten Prep 3 Day Class

Learning Best Through Play

  • Simple Bible stories and truths, prayer, Nativity Play

  • Calendar, including the seasons, days of the week, and months of the year

  • Color identification, mixing colors

  • Painting with fingers, brushes, and sponges

  • Letter identification, letter sounds, writing upper and lower case letters

  • Listening to a story, predicting what will happen

  • Retelling a story

  • Vocabulary development

  • Pre Reading skills - concepts of print (reading is from left to right, return sweep)

  • Speaking, asking and answering questions, singing songs and fingerplays

  • Identifying rhyming words

  • Science - seasons, plant life cycle, animals, space, frog life cycle, magnets, ocean, healthy foods, 5 senses, dinosaurs, insects

  • Social Studies - our families, our community, how we move, holidays

  • House and phone numbers

  • Number identification, counting to 10-100, counting 1-10 forward and backwards, counting by 10’s, writing numbers, adding and subtracting, measurement, weight, money, time

  • Shape identification, building and creating with shapes, using manipulatives

  • Sensory exploration

  • Sorting objects by shape and color, noticing similarities and differences

  • Weather, charting, identifying what is appropriate to wear, comparing less, more, and same

  • Patterning AB, ABB, and ABC patterns

Preschool-age children are learning to master both gross motor skills (which involve large physical movements) and fine motor skills (such as manual dexterity and hand-eye coordination).

§  Fine-motor activities, which are important for writing, grasping, and coordinating fine movements, include cutting, coloring (with appropriate colors), playing with playdough, and gluing.

§  Gross motor skills are often worked on during outside play and may involve using playground equipment, running, skipping, jumping, kicking or throwing or catching a ball to a partner, hopping on one foot, pedaling a tricycle walking forwards and backwards on a balance beam, and using playground equipment and balls

Motor Skills

Social and School-Readiness Skills

Your future kindergartner will learn how to function in a group setting, with an emphasis on such behaviors as sharing, turn-taking, cooperative play, transitioning from one activity to the next, recognizing emotions and feelings, walking in a line, how to clean up toys and supplies, and following classroom rules.

They will practice self-care skills by putting on their own shoes and coats, feeding themselves, blowing their nose, washing and drying hands, and using the bathroom independently.

During any given day, preschoolers may take part in:

  • Field trips designed to enhance a lesson, such as a trip to a Farmer’s Market to learn about growing and harvesting or a visit to the Creation Walk to learn about choosing God’s creation

  • Sessions with special guest speakers who are brought in to provide more details to a lesson, such as a police officer to talk about safety or a dentist to discuss oral health