Children want to learn many new and exciting things. When your child has reached the goals for the 3 and 4 year old program I focus on the rest of these goals:

LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT (Oral to Written Language)

  1. To have developed the concept of a story (by creating stories, listening to, retelling in sequence and applying information from stories to daily living)
  2. To be able to follow one, two and three step directions
  3. To be able to listen and retell directions and/or basic concepts taught
  4. To speak in correct, meaningful sentences
  5. To be able to tell a story both orally and through drawing pictures

FINE MOTOR

  1. To be able to grasp correctly
  2. To be able to cut on lines with scissors
  3. To be able to tie, zipper, button, snap
  4. To recognize and write upper and lower case letters correctly on lined paper

READING

  1. To be able to identify letter names and corresponding sounds both in an out of alphabetical order
  2. To be able to identify initial and final consonants in words
  3. To recognize rhyming words
  4. To be able to recognize similarities and differences between objects or groups of objects
  5. To be able to recognize topics and details in stories
  6. To be able to identify sequential relationships
  7. To be able to follow across a page in a left/right progression

MATHEMATICS

  1. To be able to write the numbers 0-12
  2. To be able to count sets of objects through 10, using one to one correspondence
  3. To be able to order objects (first, second, Third, fourth and fifth)
  4. To be able to recognize and be able to use location concept words (over, under, above, next to, larger, smaller, between, zero, forward, every, separate, half, back, nearest, farthest)
  5. To be able to classify objects in sets
  6. To be able to solve problems using pictures and patterns