4's Pre-Kindergarten...
We believe that learning should be a fun and interactive event. Our kids learn through play. We are VERY successful in sending our children to Kindergarten more than prepared for their school years. They can spell, do math, read simple words, understand spatial relationships, know their color words, friends names, shapes (parralellagram, trapezoid, octogon, hexagon) and so much more. We engage our children in learning activities through themes.
Not only are they learning the basics, they are learning about the world around them. Whether we are learning about the levels of the rainforest and the animals that live there, or the ocean, the dinosuars and excavation or nutrition, your kids will be getting more knowlege than just their ABC's and 123's.
We teach to the individual child. No matter where they are in their development, we move them forward from there.
Here are some other milestones to look for.
Movement milestones (Gross motor skills)
Not only are they learning the basics, they are learning about the world around them. Whether we are learning about the levels of the rainforest and the animals that live there, or the ocean, the dinosuars and excavation or nutrition, your kids will be getting more knowlege than just their ABC's and 123's.
We teach to the individual child. No matter where they are in their development, we move them forward from there.
Here are some other milestones to look for.
Movement milestones (Gross motor skills)
- Stands on one foot for ten seconds or longer
- Hops, somersaults
- Swings, climbs
- May be able to skip
- Copies triangle and other geometric patterns
- Draws person with body
- Prints some letters
- Dresses and undresses without assistance
- Uses fork, spoon, and (sometimes) a table knife
- Usually cares for own toilet needs
- Recalls part of a story
- Speaks sentences of more than five words
- Uses future tense
- Tells longer stories
- Says name and address
- Can count ten or more objects
- Correctly names at least four colors
- Better understands the concept of time
- Knows about things used every day in the home (money, food, appliances)
- Wants to please friends
- Wants to be like her friends
- More likely to agree to rules
- Likes to sing, dance, and act
- Shows more independence and may even visit a next-door neighbor by herself
- Aware of sexuality
- Able to distinguish fantasy from reality