Zimmer

SELF CARE

Developing the skills to care for one’s body, belongings, and environment

• Develop awareness of healthy food choices

• Dress independently

• Clean up after one's self 

• Pack/unpack lunch and backpack independently

• Demonstrate personal hygiene practices

 

 

SOCIAL/ EMOTIONAL

Managing emotions in a way that enhances personal growth and social relations

• Demonstrate a desire to complete tasks independently

• Work cooperatively with others toward a shared goal

• Follow the classroom routine and transition easily from one activity to the next

• Describe one's feelings and empathize with others' feelings

• Respect one's self, others, and the environment

 

 

LANGUAGE

Listening and responding to words, conversations and stories

• Demonstrate understanding of the basic functions of print

• Demonstrate understanding of beginning phonics and word skills

• Sustain conversations and contributes relevant comments to group discussions

• Show interest in print in the environment and in texts

• Print symbols and letters to share information

 

 

MATHEMATICAL

Building a sense of numbers, shapes and space through manipulation and exploration

• Understand numbers and their relationship to quantities

• Demonstrate an initial understanding of simple numerical operations

• Sort, order, pattern, and classify objects by measurable and non-measurable properties

• Identifies shapes and describes their attributes

• Count, name, and recognize numbers up to 10 

 

 

ARTS

Expressing ideas of self through a variety of mediums

• Plan and create 2 and 3 dimensional art works 

• Demonstrate appropriate audience skills during performances

• Develop an appreciation for different types of music, dance and visual arts

• Describe feelings and reactions to music, dance and visual arts

• Participate in and plan roles in dramatic play with others

 

 

PHYSICAL

Developing physical strength, control, and coordination of muscles to accomplish tasks

• Use the same hand for holding writing utensils and performing tasks

• Hold writing instruments with appropriate pincer grip

• Refine hand-eye coordination

• Draw recognizable figures and shapes with increasing detail

• Moves naturally when walking, running, jumping, and climbing stairs

 

 

SOCIAL STUDIES AND SCIENCE

Connecting with our community and the environment

• Observe, question, predict, and investigate science materials indoors and outdoors

• Communicate and represent observations through conversations, drawings and writing

• Understand, investigate and compare the needs of living and non-living things

• Explore and describe the characteristics of the world around us

• Identify unique characteristics of self, others, and family

• Demonstrate an understanding of one's neighborhood and community 

 

 

JEWISH STUDIES

Exposure to universal core values through Jewish holidays, stories and traditions

• Stories, mitzvot and lessons appropriate to each of the Jewish holidays

• Weekly Shabbat Celebrations, with homemade Challah bread

• Makes blessings before eating, and to start the day

PreK Program: 

4 years by October