Zimmer

SELF CARE

Developing the skills to care for one’s body, belongings, and environment

• Puts on shoes and coat independently

• Washes hands independently

• Shows interest in toileting

• Learns healthy table manners, sitting while eating and cleaning up after self

• Packs away toys and belongings when finished engaging

• Transitions well between activities

 

 

SOCIAL/ EMOTIONAL

Managing emotions in a way that enhances personal growth and social relations

• Extends oneself and tries to make friends with classmates and teachers

• Learns early social skills such as turn taking, sharing,

• Shows awareness of other’s feelings and may try to comfort another

• Begins to label own feelings, wants and needs and asserts themselves.

• Begin to work on conflict resolution with the help of a teacher

• Participate in large group and small group settings

 

 

LANGUAGE

Listening and responding to words, conversations and stories

• Vocabulary continues to expand and begins to expresses ideas in multiple word sentences

• Understands and follows 1 and 2 step directions

• Displays a joy of reading, being read to, and begins to tell stories

• Repeats poems and participates in songs and rhymes

• Begin drawing representational work and explains their work

 

 

MATHEMATICAL

Building a sense of numbers, shapes and space through manipulation and exploration

• Completes puzzles focusing on differentiating shape and size

• Fills, pours, sprinkles, and begins to practice measurement

• Sings rote counting until 10, knowing the

• Attempts to follow simple patterns using beading, pegs and other manipulatives  

 

 

ARTS

Expressing ideas of self through a variety of mediums

• Enjoys singing out loud a repertoire of songs

• Engages with musical instruments and listens to the various sounds

• Participates in finger and body movement song activities

• Creates nonrepresentational art using various art mediums

• Plays dramatic play to act out familiar situations taking on different roles and using props

 

 

PHYSICAL

Developing physical strength, control, and coordination of muscles to accomplish tasks

• Rolls, crawls, creeps, tiptoes, jumps, runs, bends and climbs, moving swiftly and precisely.

• Uses whole body to push and pull objects

• Moves body on hands and knees pretending to be various animals

• Kicks a ball, rides a tricycle, throws ball overhand,

• Enjoys various finger activities such as threading, scribbling, beading and finger songs

• Rolls, pounds, squeezes and pulls clay

 

 

SOCIAL STUDIES AND SCIENCE

Connecting with our community and the environment

• Begins to express observations of world around self

• Participates in outdoor play and discovery

• Interacts with fellow classmates and looks forward to being with others

• Begins work on conflict resolution and learns language of caring for others

 

 

JEWISH STUDIES

Exposure to universal core values through Jewish holidays, stories and traditions

• Stories, mitzvot and lessons appropriate to each of the Jewish holidays

• Weekly Shabbat Celebrations, with homemade Challah bread

• Makes blessings before eating, and to start the day