Reading Readiness/ELA

• Letter recognition (Capital and Lowercase)

• Phonological Awareness

• Phonics and word recognition

• High Frequency Words

• Print concepts (track words left-to-right and top-to-bottom, page by page)

• Comprehension

• Printing

• Literature

• Informational Text

• Vocabulary

• Authors and Illustrators

• Describing the relationship between an illustration and text

• Rhyming words

• Begin to understand syllables

• Discrimination between letters and numbers

• Retelling a story or sharing information about a text

• Engages in discussions

Math

• Counting to 20 (and beyond)

• One-to-one correspondence

• Counting and cardinality

• Comparing numbers (more than, less than, equal to) 

• Quantities and sets

• Object-to-symbol correspondence

• Identify "first" and "last" related to order

• Number identification

• Patterns

• Addition and subtraction (Operations of Algebraic thinking)

• Measurement and data

• Sorting according to attributes

• Shapes (2D and 3D) (Geometry)

• Writing numbers to 10 (and beyond)

• Simple fractions

• Classifying objects

• Calendar study

• Problem-solving skills

• Discrimination skills

Science

• Awareness of the Environment (year-long)

• Connecting children's senses to the world around them (Cognition and Knowledge of the World)

• Healthy Habits 

• Physical Science

• Life Sciences

• Earth and Space Science, Weather

• Predicting, observing, experimenting 

• The Pre-Kindergarten level of Botany, Zoology, Biology, Simple Physics, Meteorology, Ornithology, Earth Science.

• Featuring the Scholastic My Big World and Let's Find Out magazines and materials for enrichment.

Social Studies

• Awareness of self as an individual, self within a group, self with a Community

• Awareness and appreciation of their own culture and other cultures

• Geography (physical and cultural)

• Families and other relationships

• Feelings, socialization and communication

• Civic ideals and practices:  Community helpers: roles, rights and responsibilities

• Rules and safety

• Contributing to the classroom community

• Understanding of time, continuity and change

• Basic understanding of economic concepts within a community 

• Awareness of our role in different environments

• SEL (Social-Emotional Learning) skills practiced to mastery.

Religion

• Various prayers recited daily.

• Holy Trinity

• Christian Attitude

• Awareness of God's creation

• Religious stories/people in the Bible

• Catholic Church

• Saints

• Parish Community

• Identification of things we see in a Catholic Church and Adoration Chapel.

• Featuring the "Stories of God's Love" Religion Curriculum.

Specials

• PE daily

• Art twice per week

• Music three times per week

• Library once per week

• Spanish twice per week

• STEM twice per week

Other skills being practiced to mastery

• Uses play and engagement in learning

• Use of creativity and imagination

• Use of curiosity and initiative

• Development of persistence

• Development of Gross motor skills (movement, balance, coordination, etc.)

• Fine motor skills (pencil grasp, tracing, writing, cutting with scissors, opening various containers, manipulating a variety of objects, etc.)

• Problem-solving skills

• Caring for the self 

• Caring for the environment

• Tactile, Vestibular and Proprioceptive awareness

• Developing a growth mindset

• Using positive self-talk

• Being an active participant in a variety of settings

• Learning to work as a team, a part of a "whole"

• Attention and focus

• Strengthening memory-recall

• Learning first and last names, house number, street

• Self-regulation of emotions

• Brainstorming solutions

• Understanding spatial relations

• Prewriting and writing skills (finger isolation, hand-eye coordination, awareness of L-R concepts, crossing midline, etc.)

• Listening skills

• Communication skills

• Manners, grace and courtesy

• Practicing good sportsmanship

• Identification of primary, secondary and tertiary colors

• Social-Emotional Skills (ability to identify emotions, learning self-control, learning how to self-regulate, understanding choices, taking turns, asking for help, reading social cues, being kind, showing empathy, listening to and following directions, expressing ideas, feelings and thoughts, seeing someone else's perspective, sharing, understanding traits of character, being a good friend, etc.)

• many more!