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Preschool
Core Knowledge Curriculum for Preschool Oral Language It is important to realize that the teaching of oral language skills are "within the context of learning opportunities, in the form of child-adult interactions and conversations, that present themselves continuously on a daily basis."
Goal - Understand and use language to think, organize and relate Match pictures of simple opposites big-little, cold-hot, full-empty, happy-said, open-close Goal - Understand and use increasingly varied and complex vocabulary and syntax Combine simple sentence using and. Use personal pronoun correctly, especially "I" when referring to oneself
Nursery Rhymes, Poems, Fingerplays Goal - Develop memorization skills - Hush Little Baby, If you're happy and you know it, Pop goes the Weasel Goal - While listening perform associated hand and body gestures
Storybook Reading and Telling Goal - Develop a notion of "story schema". Read/tell a story using a wordless picture book. Examples: A Boy, A Dog, A Frog, Good Dog, Carl, Goodnight Gorilla
Emerging Literacy Skills in Reading and Writing Goal - Develop an awareness of the structure of print. Recognize the initial letter of his or her first name.
Mathematical Reasoning and Number Sense Goal - Quantify groups of objects. Name and match numerals 1-4 with corresponding Quantities. Identify ordinal position for first and last.
Goal - Identify a one-dollar bill
Orientation in Space Goal - Use simple maps of familiar environment. On a simple map of a single room showing furniture arrangements, indicate his or her own position. Identify a lake.
Scientific Reasoning Goal - Use tools and objects to construct and create. Cut - scissors - straight line
Music Goal - Instrumental works. Ponchielli "Dance of the Horns."
Visual Arts Goal - Explore and create, using various art forms, media, techniques. Use tools and techniques in completing art projects
Movement Goal - Develop and refine eye-hand, eye-foot coordination skills. Push or pull a heavy object. Play hot potato. |
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