Pre-K objectives

Pre-Kindergarten Program Objectives

Jack and Jill Childcare’s pre-kindergarten classrooms strive to prepare students for lifelong learning, with intellectual and social-emotional development.

Physical Development Objectives

•Catching and throwing medium sized balls.
•Hops backwards.
•Enjoys wheeled riding toys.
•Learning to skip.
•Completing a 10+ piece puzzle.
•Beginning to ties shoes.
•Preference developing for right or left hand.
•Buttons and zips.
•Copies most letters and shapes.

Social/Emotional Development Objectives

•Pleasant personality, likes to help.
•Responds to praise and positive guidance.
•Enjoys groups of friends.
•Has difficulty admitting he/she is wrong.
•Sometimes needs to be alone to regroup and regain control.
•Dramatic play is very involved with assigned roles, specific settings and duties.
•Imagination is still very active.
•Creative but beginning to be aware of conforming within a group.
•Dress themselves.

Communication/Language Development Objectives

•Ask “Why” and “How” of many things.
•Experiments with other languages-counting in Spanish, saying hello in Chinese.
•Conversational language is well developed
•Sustained dialogue between peers is sustained
•Developing an appreciation of poetry and rhymes.
•Enjoys creating and acting in skits.
•Likes to “Read” to younger children.

Intellectual Development Objectives

•Likes long-term projects with a resulting product.
•Enjoys designing new things on paper.
•Loves humor in books.
•Creates patterns to use in art projects.
•Likes to explore how things evolve.
•Solves problems through imitations and insight.
•Enjoys games that help with letter, number, color, and shape recognition.
•Understands some abstract concepts-seasons, days of the week and months.