Program/School Readiness Goals

Approaches to Learning

Ensure all children are provided with age-appropriate skills and concepts that promote emotional behavioral self-regulation, attentiveness, creativity, curiosity, persistence, and initiative.

Key Objectives
  1. Child will be able to self-regulate emotion when upset or angry.
  2. Child will be able to adhere to classroom routines and procedures.
  3. Child shows curiosity and persists in different activities.
  4. Demonstrate the ability to wait (e.g., for a turn, for a response, for an item, etc.).
Social and Emotional Development

Children will be able to build positive relationships, understand emotional functioning, and gain a sense of identity and belonging.

Key Objectives
  1. Child gain the capacity to develop relationships with peers and adults.
  2. With support and demonstration, a child gains the ability to solve social problems.
  3. Child engages in learning experiences to gain a sense of confidence (self-efficacy).
  4. Child manages separations without distress and engages with trusted adults.
  5. Child utilizes words or gestures to communicate own feelings and emotions.
Language and Literacy Development

Ensure all children understand and attend to communication, enhance their vocabulary, as well as supporting phonological awareness and alphabet knowledge. English Language Learners are provided with the necessary experience and opportunities that are developmentally appropriate in developing their English Language skills while encouraging Dual Language Learners to maintain their home language.

Key Objectives
  1. Child will use a series of simple sentences to relate ideas.
  2. Understand that print moves from left to right, top to bottom and page by page.
  3. Child will be able to produce words that rhyme.
  4. Child will be able to identify the 26 letters in the alphabet both upper and lower case.
  5. Child pretends to read, reciting language that closely matches the text on each page using reading-like intonation.
  6. Child will be able to write name accurately (may use a combination of upper- and lowercase letters).
  7. With prompting and support, the child will isolate and pronounce the initial sounds and ending sounds in words.
  8. Recognize your own name, environmental print, and some common high frequency sight words.
Cognition Development

Ensure that all children acquire cognitive skills, concepts, and knowledge in math and scientific reasoning throughout their learning experiences.

Key Objectives
  1. Child will be able apply one-to-one correspondence when counting a group of objects.
  2. With guidance and support, model real-world addition and subtraction problems up to 5 using developmentally appropriate pre-kindergarten materials.
  3. Child will be able to recognize and correctly name shapes.
  4. Child demonstrates an understanding of the sequence of events.
  5. With prompting and support, recite numbers 1 to 30 in the correct order.
Perceptual, Motor, and Physical Development

Ensure all children are provided the opportunities to demonstrate their abilities and gain the necessary skills and concept in healthy practices, fines and gross motor experiences and sensory experiences to help build more complex skills throughout their learning.

Key Objectives
  • Child cuts along the line continually using child proof scissors.
  • Child will demonstrate rhythmic movements, timing, and following a beat at an introductory level.
  • Child demonstrates increasingly independent with using the toilet and dressing self.
  • Child will participate in safe practices in the classroom.
  • With guidance and support, the child will identify nutritious foods.
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