What will my child be learning at JuJuBee Preschool?
I love learning through play. We will be doing a lot of playing at school as well as singing. We learn letters and numbers through center work as well as small group work. We also have many different themes we will cover throughout the year. Here are some of the things we will learn about this year.
Health and Safety
*Proper Care of the Body
*Eating Healthy
*Physical Activity
*Basic Safety
Gross and Fine Motor Skills
*Walk, jog, jump rope, hop, skip, twirl, dance, throw, catch and kick
*Draw, cut, paste, mold, write
*Boundaries and Personal Space
*Perform movements to express feelings
Communication Skills
*Express ideas, information and feelings in a variety of ways
*Recognize the 7 basic colors
* Follow class and family rules
*Traditions in families
* People in a community (Firefighters, teachers, etc.)
Environment
*Seasons with pictures and songs
*Weather for the seasons
*5 senses
*Animals and how they change in the seasons
*Clothing and activities for each season
Animals
*Observe, describe, draw, and compare animals
*How young animals are different than adult animals
*How animals care for their young
*Sounds and movements of animals
Plants
*Basic parts of plants
*What do plants need to survive and grow
*Planting and growing plants
Rocks
*How rocks form
*Making a rock collection
*Comparing rocks
Language Arts
*Front/back, top/bottom, left/right of books
*Upper and Lowercase letters and numbers
*Where text ends and begins
*Punctuation
*Counting number of words in a sentence
*Rhyming words
*Recognize words with the same beginning sounds
*Know sounds of entire alphabet in random order
*Blending to make simple words
*Substitute first letter to make a new word
*Learn basic chunks in words
*Blend simple CVC words
*Spell first name correctly
*Predict what a story will be about using clues from a picture
*Ask questions about text
*Learn nursery rhymes, fairy tales and poems
*Print all upper and lower case letters and numbers
Math
*Count to 20
*Count to 20
*Use whole numbers up to 20
*Compare objects to determine if they are the same, fewer or more
* Adding and subtracting numbers less than 10
*Recognize simple patterns
*Sort objects into groups
*Growing patterns with shapes
*Skip count by 10’s and 5’s
*Geometric Shapes
*Measurement with clocks and calendars
*Identify day, week and month on calendar
*Identify pennies, nickels, dimes and quarters
*Compare objects lengths
