my son (4) will be starting his second year of preschool next month and i would really like to work with him on things he should know and be learning. I was wondering if anyone knows where i can find something that can tell me what kinds of things they would be teaching him this year. No one is in our school offices for a few more weeks cuz i would call them for help. At one point i had a list of things, but i put it somewhere so i wouldnt lose it and guess what, i lost it! lol. TIA
I have been a Pre-K Aide for about 10 years and here are some things just off of the top of my head that our students learn. Alphabet recognition (capital and lowercase) in and out of order. Each alphabet phonetic sound. Numbers 1-20 and counting objects. Their left and right as well as left and right body parts (left ear, right leg etc.). Opposites, rhyming words. Listening skills (tell you about a story that was read to them). Social and good character skills. Color, cut, and glue. Writiing their name. Age appropriate Science and Social studies.
I work at a small private school and we also have bible stories for the children. ABEKA, a christian based curriculum for homeschooling, can usually be found on ebay.
I have a scope and sequence for preschool that I used with all of my children. It is from a book now out of print called "Give Your Child a Superior Mind". I started using it when my children started talking, and they were all able to read before the age of 5, and do most of the the tasks on this list. I spent about 5 minutes each day with each child (I had 4 under 5 at one time). They each had their own set of homemade flash cards that I cut by hand and laminated. Wish I had had a cutter back in those days! I kept this list posted on my refrigerator so that I would remember what the next steps were. Here it is:
Notes from Give Your Child a Superior Mind by Siegfried & Theresa Engelmann, 1966, Published by Simon and Schuster, New York, (Currently Out of Print)
Task Schedule Up to 3 Years Locating Parts of the Body Locating Regularly Contacted objects Color Action Words Light-Dark Hot-Cold Naming Parts of the Body Learning Names of Animals from a Book Counting-Number Recitation Right-Left Naming Regularly Contacted Objects Geometric Shapes Action Words of the Senses Position Relations Comparative Words Learning Names of Capital Letters Learning Names of Lowercase Letters
Task Schedule from 3 Years to 4 Years Counting Objects Counting to 30 Statements about the World Name, Address, Relatives Time Concepts, Days of the Week Picking up Objects as they are Counted Counting Out a Specified Number of Objects Answering Questions Making Right and Left Turns Counting Backward Number Symbols Time Concepts, Months of the Year What Number Comes Next? Learning Planets Learning Dinosaurs Group One Letters Sounds, letters whose names end with their sounds- f, l, m, n, r, s, x Short Vowel Sounds - a, e, i, o, u Words Formed with Group One Consonants and Short Vowel Sounds Group Two Letter Sounds and Their Words, letters whose names begin with their Sounds - b, d, j, k, p, t, v, z Group Three Letter Sounds and Their Words, Exceptions - c, g, h, q, w, y Long Vowel Sounds Reading from Books
Task Schedule From 4 Years to 5 Years Reading Addition Problems Fascination Checkers Directions Inferences from Statements Algebra problems If-Then, Addition Continuity Game (Addition) Subtraction Multiplication Area Telling Time Fractions Division Money Column Addition Column Subtraction Formal Relationships Combination Problems Regular Checkers Tic-Tac-Toe Chess Judging Distances Interpreting Maps Reading, Printing, and Spelling
Don’t worry if your child has not mastered these skills within the given time frame. Use this list as a guide for what to teach next.