Rogers Pre-K Curriculum

(Meets approved Arkansas Better Chance for School Success (ABCSS) curriculum requirement)

Houghton Mifflin: Big Day for Pre-K

Curriculum Goals and Objectives:

Sense of Self

• Shows ability to adjust to new situations.
• Demonstrates appropriate trust in adults.
• Recognizes own feelings and manages them appropriately.
• Stands up for rights.

Responsibility for Self and Others

• Demonstrates self-direction and independence.
• Takes responsibility for own well being.
• Respects and cares for classroom environment and materials.
• Follows classroom routines.
• Follows classroom rules.

Pro-social Behavior

• Plays well with other children.
• Recognizes the feelings of others and responds appropriately.
• Shares and respects the rights of others.
• Uses thinking skills to resolve conflicts.

Area of Development II:   Physical Development

Gross Motor

• Demonstrates basic locomotor skills (running, jumping, hopping, galloping).
• Shows balance while moving.
• Climbs up and down.
• Pedals and steers a tricycle (or other wheeled vehicle).
• Demonstrates throwing, kicking, and catching skills.

Fine Motor

• Controls small muscles in hands.
• Coordinates eye-hand movement.
• Uses tools for writing and drawing.

Area of Development III:   Cognitive Development

Learning and Problem Solving

• Observes objects and events with curiosity.
• Approaches problems flexibly.
• Shows persistence in approaching tasks.
• Explores cause and effect.
• Applies knowledge or experience to a new context.

Logical Thinking

• Classifies objects.
• Compares/Measures
• Arranges objects in a series.
• Recognizes patterns and can repeat them.
• Shows awareness of time concepts and sequence.
• Shows awareness of position in space.
• Uses one-to-one correspondence.
• Uses numbers and counting.

Representation and Symbolic Thinking

• Takes on pretend roles and situations.
• Makes believe with objects.
• Makes and interprets representations.

Area of Development IV:   Language Development

Listening and Speaking

• Hears and discriminates the sounds of language.
• Expresses self using words and expanded sentences.
• Understands and follows oral directions.
• Answers Questions.
• Asks Questions.
• Actively participates in conversations.

Reading and Writing

• Enjoys and values reading.
• Demonstrates understanding of print copies.
• Demonstrates knowledge of the alphabet.
• Uses emerging reading skills to make meaning from print.
• Comprehends and interprets meaning from books and other texts.
• Understands the purpose of writing.
• Writes letters and words.