Preschool

Every child is unique and develops at their own pace! Here is a basic list of goals to work towards during a child’s preschool year. Preschool aged children can start learning to…

• Obey parents and others in authority
• Communicate in sentences, ask and answer questions, say full name
• Talk about position and direction (left, right, under, over, in, out, etc.)
• Explore, observe and talk about the world around us
• Help with simple chores
• Work with others
• Work independently and ask for help when needed
• Learn how to play with friends of all ages
• Practice modesty, manners and kindness
• Listen, share, and take turns
• Self care without help (eating, toilet, dressing, hand washing, etc.)
• Safety (what not to touch, stay away from the street, stranger danger, etc.)
• Enjoy music and sing simple songs
• Develop a sense of humor
• Enjoy books
• Play with sounds, numbers, letters, colors, textures, clocks, and timers
• Count objects
• Explore rhymes, same and different, big and small, light and heavy
• Tell stories, beginning, ending, what comes next, cause and effect
• Remembering numbers, names, letters and sounds, I Spy, hidden pictures
• Begin to read and trace words with three letters, names of family members
• Fine motor skills (beading, building, stirring, squishing, cutting, pouring)
• Draw a person with six parts, using basic shapes (i.e., cross, circle, lines)
• Understand real and pretend, alive and not alive
• Gross motor skills (jumping, swinging, catching, throwing, tricycle riding, games)

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