Pre-School Program Curriculum
Welcome to Discover The World Children’s Center
Our preschool curriculum is designed to prepare your child for kindergarten. Our curriculum combines teacher-directed and child initiated activities for your child to learn the skills necessary for Kindergarten and beyond
The Path to Kindergarten
Discover The World Children’s Center will have an ongoing partnership with local public school districts to ensure our program will help five-year-old children successfully transition from preschool to kindergarten.
Our preschool program will help your child master important kindergarten-readiness skills, including:
- Scientific thinking and investigation skills
- Self-reliance
- Fine and gross motor skills
- Mathematical concepts and reasoning
- Social emotional skills
- Independence
- Creativity ( music, story time, art dramatic play, etc.)
- Developing reading and writing skills
- Reasoning
We want every day to be a great day for your child. Our caring and knowledgeable teachers create activities that combine both learning and fun. Our curriculum is theme based. As children develop their skills and self confidence, our teachers introduce more complex topics. These themes prompt discussion about the world and do so in an enthusiastic environment. We have the perfect combination of teacher directed and child initiated learning.
You will find below some of the skills your child will be learning.
Preschool Curriculum Learning Goals
Language and Literacy
- Recognizes all upper-case letters
- Identifies letters in own name
- Identifies rhyming words
- Identifies beginning, middle, and end of story
- Understands differences between real and make-believe
Fine Motor
- Traces letters
- Cuts simple shapes
- Writes first name
Math
- Identifies numbers 0-10 and counts to 20 or higher
- Sorts by shape, color, or size
- Understands concepts of more, less, and the same
Scientific Thinking
- Uses five senses to gather data
- Explores and describes the motion of objects
Pre-K and K-Readiness Curriculum Learning Goals
Language and Literacy
- Recognizes all upper- and lower-case letters
- Identifies initial sounds, segments onset, and rime of words
- Identifies some sight words
- Explores letter sound associations by writing/spelling words phonetically
Fine Motor
- Growing ability to write all upper- and lower-case letters
- Develops accuracy holding and cutting with scissors
Math
- Continues to develop rote counting skills
- Compares number of objects with greater than, less than, and equal to
- Understands addition as putting together and subtraction as taking away
- Compares measurable attributes, such as length and weight
Scientific Thinking
- Names basic parts of living things
- Creates and describes variations of sounds
- Identifies changes in matter