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