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)
- To have developed the concept of a story (by creating stories, listening to, retelling in sequence and applying information from stories to daily living)
- To be able to follow one, two and three step directions
- To be able to listen and retell directions and/or basic concepts taught
- To speak in correct, meaningful sentences
- To be able to tell a story both orally and through drawing pictures
FINE MOTOR
- To be able to grasp correctly
- To be able to cut on lines with scissors
- To be able to tie, zipper, button, snap
- To recognize and write upper and lower case letters correctly on lined paper
READING
- To be able to identify letter names and corresponding sounds both in an out of alphabetical order
- To be able to identify initial and final consonants in words
- To recognize rhyming words
- To be able to recognize similarities and differences between objects or groups of objects
- To be able to recognize topics and details in stories
- To be able to identify sequential relationships
- To be able to follow across a page in a left/right progression
MATHEMATICS
- To be able to write the numbers 0-12
- To be able to count sets of objects through 10, using one to one correspondence
- To be able to order objects (first, second, Third, fourth and fifth)
- 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)
- To be able to classify objects in sets
- To be able to solve problems using pictures and patterns