• Know God loves them and is always with them
• Know that Jesus is their Savior
• Learn to recite simple prayers
• Learn to recite Bible verses
• Learn to praise God with song
• Learn to be reverent in weekly chapel
• Retell simplified Bible stories
• Relate Bible story truths to their own lives
  

Social

• Cooperate with classmates in work and play
• Willingly share and take turns
• Use common manners as "please" and "thank you"
• Follow directions and school rules
• Learn to respect authority and cooperate with teachers
• Learn to work independently
• Participate in class activities
• Listen without interrupting

Emotional

• Enjoy school
• Develops a positive self-worth
• Handle separation from parents or primary care givers
• Shows love and respect for others
• Receives love and respect from others
• Responds well to discipline and limits
• Accepts responsibility for their behavior

Language Arts

• Phonemic awareness
• Letter recognition (upper and lower case)
• Recognize written name
• Write their name
• Begin tracing and letter formation
• Learn to ask questions
• Speak and share ideas in complete sentences
• Demonstrate listening comprehension
• Retell stories and sequence events
• Identifies rhymes and rhyming sounds

Math

• Count to 20 or higher
• Recognize numbers 1-20
• Use 1 to 1 correspondence to represent quantity
• Sort and classify objects by color, shape and size
• Identify simple patterns
• Understand spatial relationships
• Begin identifying units of currency
• Demonstrates awareness of time concepts
• Recognize 7 geometric shapes

Science

• Participate in simple investigations
• Use five senses in observations
• Gather information
• Use simple tools
• Identify similarities and differences
• Use patterns to predict
• Observe changes in size, color, position
• Observe changes in seasons and weather
• Experience scientific concepts through cooking
  

Social Studies

• Recite the Christian Pledge and the Pledge of Allegiance
• Recite name, phone number, address, and birthday
• Recognizes common events, traditions, and routines
• Identifies community workers and family members
• Begins to understand cause/effect relationships
  

Music

• Play a beat on a rhythm instrument
• Sing simple songs
• Participate in musical games
• Participate in creative movement to music
• Recognize simple instruments
• Participate in finger plays
  

Art

• Identify and name 10 colors
• Explore mixing of colors
• Tracing patterns
• Practice cutting and gluing
• Participate in theme based arts/crafts projects
• Draw a self portrait
• Finger painting

Gross and Fine Motor Development

• Can catch, bounce and throw a ball.
• Hop on non-dominant foot
• Jumps, gallops, skips, runs and climbs well
• Exhibits balancing skills
• Learn to manage own clothing (buttons, zippers, snaps)
• Hold standard pencil between first two fingers and thumb
• Use materials to develop muscle in fingers (scissors, crayons, markers, play dough)