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Classrooms & Objectives​​

Birth - Kindergarten

At Zoe Academy we pride ourselves in our Early Childhood Program. Our trained staff will provide your child a loving, safe, and enriching environment. Our curriculum focusus on a whole-child approach to education which encourages not only math and literacy skills but also social, emotional, and cognitive skills.

Objectives for Development & Learning:

Social - Emotional

  1. Regulates own emotions and behaviors
    • Manages Feelings
    • Follows limits and expectations
    • Takes care of own needs appropriately
  2. Establishes and sustains positive relationships
    • Forms relationships with adults
    • Responds to emotional cues
    • Interacts with Peers
    • Makes Friends
  3. Participates cooperatively and constructively in group situations
    • Balances needs and rights of self and others
    • Solves social problems

Physical

  1. Demonstrates traveling skills
  2. Demonstrates balancing skills
  3. Demonstrates gross-motor manipulative skills
  4. Demonstrates fine-motor strength and coordination
    • Uses fingers and hands
    • Uses writing and drawing tools

Language

  1. Listens to and understands increasingly complex language
    • Comprehends language
    • Follows directions
  2. Uses language to express thoughts and needs
    • Uses expanded expressive vocabulary
    • Speaks clearly
    • Uses conventional grammar
    • Tells about another time or place
  3. Uses appropriate conversational and other communication skills
    • Engages in conversations
    • Uses social rules of language

Cognitive

  1. Demonstrates positive approaches to learning
    • Attends and engages
    • Persists
    • Solves Problems
    • Shows curiosity and motivation
    • Shows flexibility and inventiveness in thinking
  2. Remembers and connects experiences
    • Recognizes and recalls
    • Makes connections
  3. Uses classification skills
  4. Uses symbols and images to represent something not present
    • Thinks symbolically
    • Engages in sociodramatic play

Literacy

  1. Demonstrates phonological awareness
    • Notices and discriminates rhyme
    • Notices and discriminates alliteration
    • Notices and discriminates smaller and smaller quantities
  2. Demonstrates knowledge of the alphabet
    • Identifies and names letters
    • Uses letter-sound knowledge
  3. Demonstrates knowledge of print and its uses
    • Uses and appreciates books
    • Uses print concepts
  4. Comprehends and responds to books and other texts
    • Interacts during read-alouds and book conversations
    • Uses emergent reading skills
    • Retells stories
  5. Demonstrates emergent writing skills
    • Writes name
    • Writes to convey meeting

Mathematics

  1. Uses number concepts and operations
    • Counts
    • Quantifies
    • Connects numerals with their quantities
  2. Explores and describes spatial relationships and shapes
    • Understands spatial relationships
    • Understands shapes
  3. Compares and measures
  4. Demonstrates knowledge of patterns

Science & Technology

  1. Uses specific inquiry skills
  2. Demonstrates knowledge of the characteristics of living things
  3. Demonstrates knowledge of the physical properties of objects and materials
  4. Demonstrates knowledge of Earth's environment
  5. Uses tools and other technology to perform tasks

Social Studies

  1. Demonstrates knowledge about self
  2. Shows basic understanding of people and how they live
  3. Explores change related to familiar people or places
  4. Demonstrates simple geographic knowledge

The Arts

  1. Explores the visual arts
  2. Explores musical concepts and expression
  3. Explores dance and movement concepts
  4. Explores drama through actions and language

English Language Acquisition

  1. Demonstrates progress in listening to and understanding English
  2. Demonstrates progress in speaking English

Learning Objectives obtained from: The creative curriculum for preschool (5th ed.). (2010). Teaching Strategies.

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