Curriculum 2011-2012 Tot School and K4

I have finally finished the official *until I change it* curriculum for both classes... I will have 4-5 children for K4 and 6-8 children for Tot School.... I am beyond excited!!! That being said...the curriculum is really a list of goals for us to hopefully accomplish this upcoming school year... whether or not that actually happens....we will have to wait and see...

TOT SCHOOL (Ages 2 & 3)

• Circle Time
• Calendar
• Days of the Week
• Months of the Year
• Holidays
• Counting
• Number, Letter, Shape, Color of the Week
• Songs
• Pre-writing
• Lots of Tracing
• Mazes
• Drawing Lines to Match Items
• Pre-Reading Skills
• Recognizing Capital Letters and their sounds
• Letter of the Week Craft
• Find the Letter –Upper case
• Correlation between sounds and object: A is for apple...
• Alphabet Box
• Math
• Number Recognition and counting 1 -10
• Sequencing
• Patterns
• Matching
• Puzzles
• Recognizing shapes
• Sets & Logic - Which one is different/ does not belong
• Science
• Baking (although I suppose this could also go under Math)
• Very Elementary Chemistry
• Units
• Farm Animals
• Plants and Flowers
• Ocean/ Sea life
• Weather
• Seasons
• Fruits/Vegetables
• The Five Senses
• Hot/Cold
• Projects and field trips
• Music
• Singing
• Learning about other instruments, rhythm, dancing
• Art
• Colors
• Mixing Colors/ Color Wheel
• Shades of Colors
• stART projects
• crafts
• Fine Motor Skills
• Practice Cutting
• Fine Motor Activities
• Clothespins, Transfers, stickers, etc.
• Gross Motor Skills
• Catch & Throw
• Kicking a Ball
• Obstacle courses
• Listening Skills/ Following Directions
• Sensory Bins
• Practical Life
• Button snake
• Zipping
• Snapping
• Cutting
• Lacing

Anticipated Purchased Curriculum:

*Hand Writing Without Tears

K4 (Age 4) – Typically they have done Tot school and preschool already

• Circle Time
• Calendar
• Days of the Week (Review)
• Months of the Year
• Holidays
• Counting
• Number, Letter, Shape, Color
• 1-100 Days of School Countdown
• Weather
• Make the Date in Change
• Spanish
• States (all 50)
• Songs
• Writing
• Writing Capital Letters (Review)
• Writing Lower Case Letters
• Writing sight words
• Writing Numbers 1-100
• Reading Skills
• Recognizing Capital and Lower Case Letters and their sounds (Review)
• Beginning sight words
• Letter Blends
• Correlation between sounds and object: A is for apple...
• Rhyming words
• Beginning Readers
• Reading Comprehension
• Story Telling
• Math
• Number Recognition and counting 1 -100
• Counting by 2’s, 5’s and 10’s to 100
• Sequencing (Review)
• Patterns {Review}
• Puzzles
• Value of coins and dollar bill
• Telling time to the nearest 15 mins
• Addition facts through 10
• Subtraction facts through 10
• Opposites
• Sets & Logic - Which one is different/ does not belong
• Measuring to nearest inch(review)
• Weighing objects
• File Folder Games
• Science
• Baking (although I suppose this could also go under Math)
• Units
• Farm Animals
• Plants and Flowers
• Ocean/ Sea life
• Jungle Animals
• Weather
• Seasons
• Fruits/Vegetables
• The Five Senses
• Hard vs. Soft
• Heavy vs. Lite
• Float vs. Sink
• Hot vs. Cold
• Dinosaurs
• Levers/ Pulleys
• Projects and field trips
• Geography
• Compass
• North, South, East and West
• New York- In depth
• 50 States (Names, General Regions, Capital)
• Continents – passports getting stamped as we study different parts of the world
• Post Card Exchange to track on classroom map
• Projects and field trips
• Intro to Spanish
• 1-20 Numbers (review)
• Numbers 21-100
• Colors (review)
• Days of the Week, Months of the Year
• Household and classroom objects (glue, table, phone, stove, etc.)
• Simple Phrases
• Music
• Singing, learning about other instruments, rhythm, dancing
• Intro Music theory
• Art
• Colors (Review)
• Mixing Colors/ Color Wheel (Review)
• Shades of Colors
• stART projects
• crafts

• Fine Motor Skills
• Cutting (review and more practice)
• Learning to Tie
• Fine Motor Activities
• Clothespins, Transfers, stickers, etc.
• Gross Motor Skills
• Catch & Throw
• Kicking a Ball
• Stopping a Soccer Ball with foot
• Passing a Soccer Ball with feet
• Dancing
• Obstacle Courses
• Listening Skills/ Following Directions
• Sensory Bins
• Practical Life
• Dialing a phone
• Address and phone number
• Tying Shoes
• Anticipated Purchased Curriculum:
• *Hand Writing Without Tears
• *All About Spelling/ Reading
• *Road Trip USA/ Expedition Earth
• *K4 Expansion Pack

To see what others did this week check out Tot School at 1+1+1=1; Preschool Corner at Homeschool Creations; and the Weekly Wrap-up at Weird Unsocialized Homeschoolers.