Goals

Students will learn to:

• identify letters (upper & lower case)

• identify letter sounds

• recognize rhyming words

• experience fiction & nonfiction texts

• participate in discussions about texts

• learn and use new vocabulary

• read from left to right, top to bottom, & page to page

• recognize their name & know how to spell it correctly

Students will learn to:

• strengthen their fine motor skills to prepare them for writing

• use the Handwriting Without Tears program to foster their pre-writing skills

• write their name using upper- and lower-case letters

• begin to write letters of the alphabet by the end of the year

• recognize numbers and count to 20

• count with 1:1 correspondence

• name shapes

• explore 2 and 3 dimensional shapes

• identify more than, fewer than, before, after

• measure objects with non-standard units of measure

• duplicate and extend patterns

Students learn:

• The Creation Story

• stories about Jesus and the Holy Family

• Catholic traditions

• prayers

• about the Bible

• through stories, crafts, songs

• about the Mass and attend regularly