Ducklings

3 to 4 year olds

 

SOCIAL SKILLS

 

• Begin learning the give and take of play.

• Begin participating in a group.

• Experience the advantages of waiting your turn and sharing.

• Practice good manner words and actions.

• Follow rules without being reminded

• Express feeling verbally – say when happy, sad, afraid, angr

• Ask for help when needed

• Speak kindly to classmates

• Speak respectfully to teachers

• Politely wait to talk when someone else is speaking.

• Play cooperatively with peers 

 

READING READINESS SKILLS

 

• Identify and name colors.

• Recognize first name.

• Identify letters both upper and lowercase.

• Identify what’s missing from a picture.

• Retells favorite childhood stories using flannel board pictures   

• Recognize what object doesn’t belong to a group

• Sings the alphabet song.

• Recognize upper case letter

• Recognize lower case letters

• Matches lower case letters with upper case letters

• Begin to print name in upper and lower case

 

MATH/SCIENCE READINESS SKILLS

 

• Sort and classify objects that have similar characteristics.

• Rote count to twenty.

• Work with one to one correspondence to ten.

• Identify numerals to 10.

• Identify and match shapes and colors.

• Learn that there are many different types of animals and that animals move in different ways and live in different habitats.

• Learn that plants make seeds for new plants and that seeds grointo plants with roots, stems, leaves and flowers.

• Learn that germs cause illness and that soap and water and otherproper hygiene kill germs.

 

FINE MOTOR SKILLS

 

• Hold crayons with fingers rather than fist.

• Paint with large brushes on large pieces of paper.

• Use scissors to cut basic shapes.

• Put together a six to seven piece puzzle.

• String beads on a rope.

• Put pegs in a pegboard.  

• Grasp pencil and crayon between thumb and forefinger

• Draw horizontal and vertical lines

• Draw circle, triangle and square

• Begin to print name in upper and lower case

• Hold scissor and use it correctly

• Cut on a straight line

• Cut out a shape

 

GROSS MOTOR SKILLS

 

• Roll a large ball to a target.

• Walk forward and backward on a 6 foot line.

• Climb, jump and run with friends

• Practice pedaling on a carousel bicycle

• Hop on one foot two or more times.

• Crab & elephant walk

• Broad jumps over a string or object two inches high. 

• Wheel barrel with adult holding leg

• Walk on a balance beam

 

LANGUAGE SKILLS

 

• Speak in four to six word sentences.

• Use I, you, me, he and she correctly.

• Engage in simple conversation.

• Speak in front of a small group during show and tell

• Perform on a stage in front of a group

• Memorize and repeat finger plays and songs.

• Describe actions depicted in pictures.

• Follow two and three part directions.

• Memorize simple nursery rhymes

 

 

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