Pre-Kindergarten
The Pre-Kindergarten program at CREC provides a safe, nurturing, and rigorous learning environment that promotes independence, develops cognitive skills, and fosters the development of the whole child.
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In the first year of Pre-Kindergarten, students are learning...
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In the second year of Pre-Kindergarten students are learning...
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Social/Emotional
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-How to participate in a school community
-How to collaborate with their peers
-Adapting to changes in everyday routines
-How to interact with familiar adults
-To communicate their feelings and emotions
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-To develop a sense of self
-To develop independence and leadership skills
-How to self-soothe across many familiar and unfamiliar situations
-To seek help from familiar adults
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Mathematics
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-How to count to 10
-How to count objects up to 5
-To use words like longer, shorter, taller, and heavier
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-To read the numbers 0-10
-Beginning number operations (addition and subtraction)
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Cognition
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-Problem solving strategies
-To show interest in new activities
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-Problem solving strategies
-To plan and follow the steps to complete a task
-To keep interest in new activities
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Language and Literacy
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-To communicate with longer sentences and more detail
-Rhyming words
-How to draw and write with a purpose
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-How to follow multi-step directions
-How to participate in conversations with peers and adults
-To identify familiar letters, words, and print concepts
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Science
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-To ask questions about things that we observe in the world around us
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-To make observations and predictions about the world around us
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Helping your child learn outside of school:
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Encourage your child to be independent (i.e., dress independently, practice zippers and buttons, blow his/her own nose, follow a set routine at home)
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Listen to stories everyday! Have a conversation with your child about the books that you read
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Count everything!
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Sory everyday objects - toys, laundry, groceries, etc.
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Practice rhyming (singing silly songs, noticing rhymes in books, etc)
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Expose your child to social experiences by attending a playgroup, museum, music/art/gym
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Build, construct, paint, and draw
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Engage in pretend play
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Sing and respond to music
Websites for Parents
Websites for Students
For more information, please contact the Pre-Kindergarten Curriculum Facilitator, Courtney Sugarman, at csugarman@crec.org.