Social-emotional

● Learn to separate from parents
● Have fun at school
● Cooperate by play-sharing and taking turns
● Learn to identify their belongings
● Develop positive self-image by ‘doing’ for themselves
● Listening; increasing attention span
● Following directions

Physical

● Develop motor skills through art activities, manipulation and ‘play-dough’
● Coordinate body movement with outdoor play equipment and indoor games
● Improve eye-hand coordination and eye-foot coordination skills
● Gross motor skills: running, hopping, jumping, climbing, sliding, balancing, begin skipping, coordination, alternating feet on stairs
● Fine motor skills: zippers, buttons, boots, etc.; stacking, balancing, pattering with manipulatives; cutting with scissors; tracing, painting, gluing

Language & Cognitive

● Recognition of upper case letters
● Rhyming words
● Beginning word sounds
● Recognition of shapes
● Recognition of numbers; counting in order; 1 to 1 correspondence
● Increase vocabulary and vocalization skills with finger plays, stories and songs
● Cultivate ability to verbalize needs and frustrations

Fine Arts

● Music, poetry, stories, finger plays
● Coordinate body movement with outdoor play equipment and indoor games