Pre-K 3 Skills
Catholic Formation
- Understand basic attributes of God
- Develop a simple love for Christ
- Develop a simple love for Blessed Mother Mary
- Recognize some Old Testament stories
- Recognize some New Testament stories
- Develop a beginning understanding of angels and saints
Language Arts
- Maintain sustained attention
- Use appropriate listening skills
- Dictate and recite simple stories
- Use appropriate vocabulary
- Use appropriate oral presentation skills
- Be able to describe and express personal needs
- Recount personal experiences
- Recite alphabet and say sounds
- Understand basic phonemic awareness concepts
- Rhyme and rhythm
- Segment words into sounds
- Segment sentences into words
Understand Basic Book and Print Concepts
- Understand basic directions
- Categorize information heard
- Give oral response to text
- Know simple fairy tales, short stories, fables and legends
- Recite simple poems
- State characters and events of simple stories
- Develop fine motor skills
- Generate and dictate stories orally
- Ask questions and know purpose of library
Math
- Understand simple story problems
- Order numbers 1-5
- Estimate using the terms small, large, little and lot
- Use pictures and objects to model problems
- Count, read and write 1-10
- Count 1-30 orally
- Compare quantities up to 5
- Recognize simple sets
- Estimate sets up to 5 objects
- Use terms put together and take away
- Add and subtract numbers up to 5
- Use simple computation strategies
- Use simple measurement strategies
- Understand cold, warm and hot
- Recognize and identify value of penny and dollar bill
- Understand basic terms related to time
- Understand basic calendar concepts
- Understand basic terms of orientation
- Identify and use simple figures and solids
- Identify patterns by color, size and shape
- Use simple data analysis and probability concepts
Science
- Understand basic concepts of the scientific process
- Understand basic scientific thinking skills
- Develop simple scientific habits
- Use simple scientific tools
- Know basics of earth and space science
- Know basics of life science
History
- Understand broad categories of time
- Reconstruct the past
- Identify historical figures
- Know national holidays
- Acquire information from historical source
- Describe the past orally
Physical Education
- Understand basic physical activity concepts
- Participate in physical activities
- Understand movement concepts and principles
- Develop gross motor skills
- Develop small motor skills
- Develop team building skills
- Understand physical activity provides enjoyment, challenge, self-expression and social interaction