Preschool Syllabus and Curriculum Information
Preschool Program
Our GSRP believes in a play- based curriculum. Children in the classroom learn from their environment and their surroundings. Children learn best through their everyday experiences because they are naturally curious, active, and eager to learn and try new things. Through play they learn about themselves, others, their environment, and the world at large. Our preschool curriculum builds learning opportunities directly into play, so that, learning is developmentally appropriate. Play benefits children in social, emotional, cognitive, physical, and creative ways.
Curriculum
The GSRP will be using Creative Curriculum for Preschoolers. This program enhances the social/emotional, physical, cognitive, and language development for 3-5 year olds. The Creative Curriculum is for the active learner, who will learn best from activities that they plan, carry out, and reflect upon. The students will learn through many hands-on experiences. These include: creative, representation, language and literacy, initiative and social relations, movement, music, classifications, serrations, numbers, space, and time. The daily routine is scheduled for small and large interaction with peers. There is also time for the children to work in areas that are quiet and noise.
Preschool Syllabus
Math Overview:
Young children’s early understanding of mathematics are broad in scope and extend well beyond numbers and counting. Problem solving is the central focus of mathematics curriculum from the early years onward.
Objectives:
1. Numbers and Operations
a. Count, write, order numbers
1. Count by 1s to 100
2. Count by 10s and 5s
b. Add numbers up to 5
c. Explore Patterns
2. Measurement
a. Awareness of the concept of time: Schedule.
b. Understand concepts of weight.
c. Use beginning skills of estimation.
d. Begin to use non-standard measures of length.
3. Problem Solving
a. Connect math concepts to everyday life.
Assessment
Oral assessments. These individual interviews are performance based and encourage students to verbally explain their answers. The assessments are completed by the classroom teacher during class free play.
Phonic Overview:
Measure the students mastery of important pre-reading and pre-writings skills (the sounds and shapes of the lowercase and capital letter alphabet, and letter names, initial, medial, ending sounds of words, word building, segmenting, closing, rhyming, words reading, simple high frequency words, etc.)
Objectives:
1. Reciting the Alphabet by Letter Name or Letter Sound.
2. Identifying the Shape, Sound and Signal of Zoo-phonic Animals.
3. Identifying upper and lowercase letters.
Assessment:
Administered orally by classroom teacher during free play. Assessment are given three times a year.
1. Letter recognition (phonetic alphabet)
2. Letter sounds (phonic)
3. Color Words
4. Number Words
5. Writing: Name
Social Studies Overview:
Age-appropriate content and the use of inquiry to learn more about the people in their families and neighborhoods, the earth they live on, the people who live on the earth, and the study of their histories, will give young children the skills they will need as citizens of a democracy.
Objectives:
1. Distinguish among past, present, future
2. Historical figures and Events
3. Describe, compare, explain the locations and characteristics of places, cultures, community events
4. Environmental issues.
5. Concepts associated with Michigan and the United States
a. food
b. leaders
c. voting
6. Citizen Involvement
a. Personal responsibility at home, school, community
b. Law and rules governing home, school, community
Assessments:
Formal tests are not administered at the preschool level for Social Studies. Project-based assessments are conducted. When assessing the student's, teacher observations, informal inquiry, and student participation.
Science Overview:
Early learning expectations for science model the nature of scientific inquiry that gives the opportunity to ask and answer questions and apply problem-solving skills.
Objectives:
1. Generate questions based on observations.
2. Use cross-curricular lessons to help illustrate the science concepts.
3. Develop an awareness of and sensitivity to the natural world.
4. Describe weather conditions.
5. Describe seasonal changes in Michigan’s weather.
6. Explain appropriate safety precautions during severe weather.
Assessments:
Formal tests are not administered at the preschool level for Social Studies. Project-based assessments are conducted. When assessing the student's, teacher observations, informal inquiry, and student participation.
Our GSRP believes in a play- based curriculum. Children in the classroom learn from their environment and their surroundings. Children learn best through their everyday experiences because they are naturally curious, active, and eager to learn and try new things. Through play they learn about themselves, others, their environment, and the world at large. Our preschool curriculum builds learning opportunities directly into play, so that, learning is developmentally appropriate. Play benefits children in social, emotional, cognitive, physical, and creative ways.
Curriculum
The GSRP will be using Creative Curriculum for Preschoolers. This program enhances the social/emotional, physical, cognitive, and language development for 3-5 year olds. The Creative Curriculum is for the active learner, who will learn best from activities that they plan, carry out, and reflect upon. The students will learn through many hands-on experiences. These include: creative, representation, language and literacy, initiative and social relations, movement, music, classifications, serrations, numbers, space, and time. The daily routine is scheduled for small and large interaction with peers. There is also time for the children to work in areas that are quiet and noise.
Preschool Syllabus
Math Overview:
Young children’s early understanding of mathematics are broad in scope and extend well beyond numbers and counting. Problem solving is the central focus of mathematics curriculum from the early years onward.
Objectives:
1. Numbers and Operations
a. Count, write, order numbers
1. Count by 1s to 100
2. Count by 10s and 5s
b. Add numbers up to 5
c. Explore Patterns
2. Measurement
a. Awareness of the concept of time: Schedule.
b. Understand concepts of weight.
c. Use beginning skills of estimation.
d. Begin to use non-standard measures of length.
3. Problem Solving
a. Connect math concepts to everyday life.
Assessment
Oral assessments. These individual interviews are performance based and encourage students to verbally explain their answers. The assessments are completed by the classroom teacher during class free play.
Phonic Overview:
Measure the students mastery of important pre-reading and pre-writings skills (the sounds and shapes of the lowercase and capital letter alphabet, and letter names, initial, medial, ending sounds of words, word building, segmenting, closing, rhyming, words reading, simple high frequency words, etc.)
Objectives:
1. Reciting the Alphabet by Letter Name or Letter Sound.
2. Identifying the Shape, Sound and Signal of Zoo-phonic Animals.
3. Identifying upper and lowercase letters.
Assessment:
Administered orally by classroom teacher during free play. Assessment are given three times a year.
1. Letter recognition (phonetic alphabet)
2. Letter sounds (phonic)
3. Color Words
4. Number Words
5. Writing: Name
Social Studies Overview:
Age-appropriate content and the use of inquiry to learn more about the people in their families and neighborhoods, the earth they live on, the people who live on the earth, and the study of their histories, will give young children the skills they will need as citizens of a democracy.
Objectives:
1. Distinguish among past, present, future
2. Historical figures and Events
3. Describe, compare, explain the locations and characteristics of places, cultures, community events
4. Environmental issues.
5. Concepts associated with Michigan and the United States
a. food
b. leaders
c. voting
6. Citizen Involvement
a. Personal responsibility at home, school, community
b. Law and rules governing home, school, community
Assessments:
Formal tests are not administered at the preschool level for Social Studies. Project-based assessments are conducted. When assessing the student's, teacher observations, informal inquiry, and student participation.
Science Overview:
Early learning expectations for science model the nature of scientific inquiry that gives the opportunity to ask and answer questions and apply problem-solving skills.
Objectives:
1. Generate questions based on observations.
2. Use cross-curricular lessons to help illustrate the science concepts.
3. Develop an awareness of and sensitivity to the natural world.
4. Describe weather conditions.
5. Describe seasonal changes in Michigan’s weather.
6. Explain appropriate safety precautions during severe weather.
Assessments:
Formal tests are not administered at the preschool level for Social Studies. Project-based assessments are conducted. When assessing the student's, teacher observations, informal inquiry, and student participation.