Pre-Kindergarten



Frogs
Monday – Friday
$205 per month

Teacher: Elaine Leitch
Standards of Rigor
The Standards of Learning (SOLs) for pre-Kindergarteners at Heritage United Methodist preschool include guidelines for socio-emotional, cognitive, physical, and spiritual development.
Socio-Emotional Development
To experience a sense of self-esteem:
- Identify oneself as a member of a specific family
- Identify oneself as a member of a classroom family
- Demonstrate confidence in one’s growing abilities
- Demonstrate increasing independence
- Demonstrate pride in accomplishments
To exhibit a positive attitude toward life:
- Demonstrate trust in teachers
- Be able to separate from parents
- Demonstrate interest and participate in classroom activities
- Participate in routine activities easily
To demonstrate cooperative, pro-social behavior:
- Seek out other children and teachers
- Understand and respect differences
- Accept responsibility for maintaining the classroom environment
- Help others in need
- Respect the rights of others
- Share toys and materials
- Work cooperatively with others on completing a task
- Resolve conflicts constructively
- Respect “space” of others
Cognitive Development
To acquire learning and problem-solving skills:
- Demonstrate an interest in exploring
- Ask and respond to questions
- Show curiosity and a desire to learn
- Use planning skills
- Observe and make discoveries
- Find more than one solution to problems
- Use creativity and imagination
To expand logical thinking skills:
- Sort objects by similarities and differences
- Put together objects that belong together
- Recall a sequence of events (first, second, last)
- Recognize patterns and be able to repeat them
- Arrange objects in a series (smallest to largest)
- Understand concept of opposites
To acquire concepts and information leading to a fuller understanding of my world:
- Identify names of objects and events
- Begin to make comparisons (more/less, larger/smaller, taller/shorter, opposites)
- Use words to describe the characteristics of objects (colors, shapes, sizes)
- Identify the roles people play in society (community helpers)
- Identify relationships of objects in space (below, inside, under)
- Count in correct sequence (1 through 20)
- Count backwards from 10
- Count by tens
- Match one-to-one
To demonstrate skills in make-believe play:
- Assume a pretend role
- Make believe with objects
- Make believe about situations (going to McDonald’s, going to the doctor)
- Interact with other children in make-believe role play
To expand verbal communication skills:
- Recall words in a song or finger play
- Follow simple directions
- Use words to explain ideas and feelings
- Talk with other children during daily activities
- Make up and dictate simple stories
- Begin to participate in group discussions
- Talk in front of classroom friends
To develop beginning reading skills:
- Acquire a love of books
- Listen to a story and explain what happened
- Demonstrate knowledge of how to use books (turning pages, cover, title, author)
- Recognize pictures and text on a page
- Begin to understand the concept of “word”
- Understand that reading goes from left to right
- Make predictions of what might happen next in a story
- Listen for rhyming words in a story
- Develop recognition of uppercase and lowercase letter
- Begin to identify the beginning sound of a word
- Begin to recognize common sight words (days of week, numerals, months of year)
- Recognize own written name
- Recognize written names of some classmates
To acquire beginning writing skills:
- Begin to make recognizable letters and numbers on paper
- Begin to write words from left to right
- Demonstrate an interest in using writing for a purpose (making signs, sending letters)
- Begin to write letters between lines
- Begin to show an interest in making own books
Physical Development
Spiritual Development
To develop an understanding of God and Jesus:
- They live in heaven
- They cannot be seen but are real
- They made me
- They love me
- They care about my every need
- They are always with me
- They have a plan for my life
To develop a relationship with God and Jesus:
- They want to be my best friends
- They want me to talk with Them in prayer and to know that they will always answer
- They want to be a part of my everyday life
- They want me to trust them
To respond in obedience to God:
- Love others
- Share with others
- Use kind words
- Help others
- Obey my parents
- Understand that sometimes I do naughty things and need a Savior
- Ask Jesus to be my best friend