Toddlers School Angeles City – Ages 2 to 3
The Preschool Program integrates technology in the learning environment of students. Teachers guide the students through a variety of lessons in Sensory, Language Development, Music and Movement, Colors and Shapes, Letters and Numbers, Creative Art, and Daily Life Skills. This framework establishes a firm standards-based groundwork for kindergarten readiness.
Receptive Language
- Auditory Discrimination
- Distinguishing between two sounds
- Identifying the direction of a sound
- Distinguishing the duration of sound (long, short)
- Discriminating the volume of sound (loud, soft)
- Discriminating the tempo of sound (fast, slow)
- Identifying the pitch of sound (high, low)
- Discriminating rhyming words
- Matching familiar sounds with their sources
- Imitating sounds (e.g. animal sounds)
- Discrimination of sounds in words (hears difference in “hat” and “sat”)
Auditory Memory
- Reciting and singing nursery rhymes and jingles
- Retelling a story
- Recalling (reciting or singing) the alphabet in sequence
- Identifying similar sound (e.g. words that begin alike)
- Supplying rhyming words
- Identifying familiar sounds (kitchen sounds)
- Rote counting to ten
- Sequencing the days of the week (in a song)
- Clapping a rhythmic pattern (e.g., short, short, short, or shot, long, short, long)
- Following directions that increase in complexity (two or three commands at a time, gradually increasing to four)
SECOND SEMESTER
Expressive Language
Naming Objects
- Association (pairing the real object, and later a picture of the object, with the sound of the word by)
- Reinforcement (repeating a given response because of a positive stimulus such as praise)
- Imitation (attempting to voice the sounds initially voiced by a parent or teacher)
- Elaboration (expanding a word into a complete sentence)
Showing and telling about personal possessions
Telling about personal experience
Discussing purposefully
- Discussing pictures
- Discussing unit topics
- Discussing preparation for an excursion or other group activity
- Evaluating a group project or experience
- Discussing stories and books
Dramatizing poems, action rhymes, and stories
- Reciting favorite nursery rhymes, action rhymes, and poems
- Retelling favorite stories
- Supplying endings for simple stories
- Using puppets to tell or retell stories
- Experiencing choral reading (repetitious phrases in rhymes)
- Pantomiming and acting out rhymes and simple stories
- Pantomiming and acting out what they see in a picture
Visual Discrimination
- Matching pictures and real Objects
- Identifying basic shapes
- Identifying basic colors and color associated with common ojbects
- Identifying patterns that employ shapes, colors, and letters in sequential order.
- Classifying objects according to the following common traits: color, size, shape, texture, pattern.
- Identifying spatial relationship (inside, outside, over, under, top, bottom, etc.)
- Identifying spatial relationships indicated by pictures.
- Identifying emotions in illustrations (e.g., sad, happy)
- Matching alphabets
- Recognizing the uppercase alphabet
- Recognizing own name in upper-case and lower-case letters.
SECOND SEMESTER
Visual Memory
- Recalling visual details – what is missing, proper placement of table setting
- Recalling visual details from a story or a field trip
Visual Closure
- Perceiving objects in incomplete forms – board puzzles, shadow silhouette pictures, hidden pictures, sequencing patterns
- Completing partially drawn pictures
- Identifying objects by sight
- Expanding vocabulary and meaning
- Perceiving spatial relationships
- Relating picture of an auditory signal
- Listening to and following verbal directions
- Using context clues for word meaning
Reading pictures
- Noticing details
- Identifying characters and actions
- Inferring motives, feelings and conversations of characters
- Answering thought-provoking questions
- Anticipating outcomes
SECOND SEMESTER
- Listening to recall facts
- Main events of a story or poem
- Sequence events of a story or a poem
- Details of story
- Specific information in story (who, what, where, when, why and how)
- Cause and effect relationships
- Listening in order to suggest titles for a story or poem
- Reading and arranging sequence pictures
- Listening in order to categorize
- Distinguishing fact and fantasy
- Building a positive attitude towards books
- Associating spoken words with printed books(print awareness)
- Demonstrating left to right progression
- Demonstrating proper care of books(library corner)
- Demonstrating familiarity with book format:left to right, top to bottom, cover and title
SECOND SEMESTER
- Comprehending facts and details
- Interpreting pictures
- Associating spoken words with printed books(print awareness)
- Dictating sentences about illustrations or experiences
- Classification – arranging and sorting objects into two groups according to a definite concept, shared characteristic, or plan (color, shape, size, pople, animals, plants, toys, water animals, land animals, etc.)
- Association – selecting or matching according to relationship or function (e.g., hammer with carpenter)
- Picture group – recognizing which object does not go in a group of three items(doll, wagon, apple)
SECOND SEMESTER
- Grouping three objects together on the basis of a characteristic or principle (e.g., clothing – shirt, pants, dress; toys – ball, top, doll)
- Pattern sequencing – observing and arranging objects according to an established pattern (e.g., smallest to largest)
- Part-Whole relationship – relating parts of an object to the object itself (e.g., tail to animal, pedal to bicycle)
- Time Sequencing (arranging two to three pictured events in proper sequence)
Skills
- Singing tone games and songs
- Moving action songs, singing games, axial and locomotor activities to rhythm of music
- Playing rhythm band instruments
- Listening – song recognition, concept discrimination, music appreciation
- Composing – new words to familiar melody
SECOND SEMESTER
Concepts
- Duration (long or short tomes)
- Pitch (high or low tones)
- Dynamics (loud or soft tones)
- Rhythms (fast or slow)
Numbers and Numerals
- Matching numerals
- Naming and tracing numerals with fingers
- Matching numbers(group or sets of objects one through five)
- Recognizing numbers and numerals 1-6 for threes, 1-10 for fours
- Recognizing order: before, after, between, first, next, last
- Recognizing ordinal concepts first through third for threes, first through fifth for four
- Counting by ones to ten for threes, one to twenty for fours
- Developing vocabulary of positional words (top, bottom, over, under, between, in, on)
- Dividing informally by sharing cookies
SECOND SEMESTER
Geometry
- Matching shapes (circle, square, triangle, rectangle)
- Recognizing geometric shapes; circle, square, triangle; their differences, similarities, and sizes
- Matching simple shape patterns (circle, square, circle, square sequence)
- Recognizing half of shape (e.g., using shape cutters for bread; then cutting in half)
Measurement
- Identifying taller, shorter, heavier, longer, same size
- Using vocabulary of time
- day and night
- morning and afternoon
- today and tomorrow
- seasons
- clock
- calendar
- thermometer -cold/hot
Unit approach to curriculum based on topics of interest to young child-
- season
- holidays
- home
- animals
SECOND SEMESTER
Theme content for teaching of all skills
Gross Motor Skills
Types Of movement
- Locomotor(crawling, walking,running jumping, hopping, etc)
- Axial or non-locomotor(bemdomg stretching, pushing, pulling, swaying, stooping, twisting, etc)
- Manipulative(throwing, catching ball, with both hands against chest, kicking)
Where we move
- Directionality, literally-sidedness, space
- Demonstration of the ability to relate himself to other objects
- Tell whether he is near/far, behind/infront of/to the side of
- Distinguish and point out the top and bottom of himself
How we move
- Speed
- Force
- Space
- Control
What we can do
- Catch a ball with both hands against chest
- Throw a ball overhand with accuracy from four to six feet
- Throw a beanbag at a target five feet away
- Clap with music
- Walk on the balance beam six feet
- Climb the slide and slide down; climb, alternating feet, and holding on to trail
- Hop on one foot two or both feet
- Tiptoe
- Jump three jumps with both feet
- Stand on one foot and balance
- Run freely