JUNIOR KINDERGARTEN

Spiritual Domain

• Developing a respect for God, self and others, and all God created
• 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

Language

• Developing communication skills through listening, speaking and reading
• Use language to communicate
• Listen for turn-taking cues in conversation
• Attend to and follow oral directions
• Use language to solve problems and negotiate
• Introduction to words and books
• Listen attentively to stories, songs and poetry
• Be aware of the connection between text and illustrations
• Be aware of the sequence of the story (beginning, middle, end)
• Recognize own name
• Recognize letters of the alphabet

Physical Domain

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

Cognitive Domain

• Acquiring, sorting and retrieving information
• Make discoveries
• Discover attributes of objects and how things work
• Make comparisons (more/less, larger/smaller, taller/shorter)
• Develop simple and complex sorting skills
• Put objects, events and actions in all kinds of relationships
• Explore number properties
• Experiment with and identify geometric shapes
• Describe experiences in time (first, last, before, after)
• Generate ideas and make predictions
• Use physical principles (weight, balance, stability)

Social Domain

• Interacting with adults and with other children
• Engage in independent and group activities
• Utilize proper social skills
• Express emotions in an acceptable manner
• Interact with others by role playing and dramatic play
• Express positive feelings about self

Community Awareness

• Introduce important religious holy days and observances
• Introduce and observe our national holidays
• Awareness of the different people we meet in our community