SPRITUALITY

• Cultivate a love of God’s gifts
• Encourage speaking and listening to God with reverence
• Explore God’s family: Jesus, Mary and Joseph
• Promote positive feelings about honesty and respect

• Use language to communicate
• Recognize and write own name
• Recognize and write  letters of the alphabet
• Introduction to words and books
• Introduction to different genres of writing
• Rhyming, Sequencing, Classifying
• Opposites

• Make comparisons (more/less, larger/smaller, taller/shorter)
• Develop simple and complex sorting skills
• Number Sense: recognition and writing of numbers 1-15
• Identify shapes
• Identify colors

• Introduce proper use of writing instruments
• Perform small muscle activities such as snapping, buckling, buttoning
• Manipulate materials for eye-hand coordination

• Engage in independent and group activities
• Utilize proper social skills
• Express emotions in an acceptable manner
• Express positive feelings about self