Beginner Curriculum

Physical Development

• Explore balance

• Integrate body movement with senses

• Name, locate and understand relationships of body parts

• Develop strength and endurance

• Put on and take off own sweater or coat

• Coordinate hand/eye movements

• Explore manipulative toys

• Strengthen hand grasp and use hands in many positions

• Build an understanding of directionality and position in space

Literacy & Language Development

• Demonstrate the concept of rhyming

• Understand simple sentences

• Use newly learned vocabulary

• Identify a variety of objects through receptive language

• Tell simple personal narratives

• Enjoy being read to, and hearing stories

• Follow simple directions

• Name actual or pictured objects

• Attend to story telling

Math

· Assemble simple puzzles

· Match, count, and sort object

Science

· Continually grow in observations of the world around us

· Recognize primary colors

· Begin to understand big and small

· Develop the five senses

Fine Arts

· Create original artwork

· Participate in classroom music activities

· Use language as part of dramatic play

· “Make believe” with objects

· Express feelings through movement

· Reproduce or create sound patterns 

Health & Safety

· Practice routine healthy behaviors with use of napkins and hand washing

· Experience healthy foods in all snacks and lunches