Pre-K3 Curriculum

Overview Pre-K3 Curriculum Overview

During the Pre-K3 year, many students are entering school and venturing outside the safety of their families for the first time. To help them transition into the school community, All Saints’ curriculum focuses on the following Learning Themes:
Welcome to School, All About Me, Feelings, Friendship, Fall Harvest, Exploring Holidays, Winter, Community Helpers, Farm, Spring, Summer and the Ocean.
In the Pre-K3 class, and throughout the early childhood program, learning themes are introduced a month at a time. During group meetings, students help read the daily message, engage in music and movement activities (including songs, action poems and fingerplays), and explore concepts such as colors, shapes, letters and numbers.

Language Arts

In the Library Center, the students learn critical language skills from reading books. They enjoy time reading alone and with others. They also practice important oral language skills when they make up stories to go with the pictures they see. The books in the Library Center are changed as the learning themes rotate throughout the school year.

Mathematics

In the Blocks and Manipulative Center the students learn about gravity, stability, weight, balance, and systems. Students also learn about depth, width, height, length, shape and balance. Students focus on counting and number recognition during morning meeting activities with the calendar. Other units of focus include sorting, classifying, patterns, sequencing, graphing, and measurement.

Science

In the Science and Discovery Center, the students explore a variety of scientific tools such as magnifying glasses. They learn about magnets, plants, and other items of scientific interest. The Pre-K3 classrooms have sensory tables where the students can learn practical math skills when they pour sand and water from one container to another. Students are also engaged in nutrition projects and learn new vocabulary as they are exposed to different ingredients. They learn basic measurement skills, and can appreciate the cultural ties to foods as they are prepared and served.

Co-Curriculars

Pre-K3 Students partake in several co-curricular activities such as music, dance, and world language. Please see our Beyond Core Academics page.

Pre-K3 Milestone Projects

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Pre-K3 ~ The People that Make Our Community Run

After becoming comfortable in their first classroom environment, Pre-K3 students set out to discover what lies beyond the walls of their room. As part of their milestone project, the Pre-K3 class conducts interviews of the teachers and staff members who comprise the All Saints Community. This special project allows the Pre-K3 students to learn more about the members of their school community and to gain a better awareness of the people who make our school run. The students learn what an interview is and how to ask questions to gather information about their interviewees. They also learn the difference between a statement and a question.

Students brainstorm with their teachers and create a list of questions to ask the members of the All Saints Community. During the interview process, they begin with simple questions such as “What is your favorite color?” or “Do you have a pet?” They also ask each interviewee about his/her favorite book and listen to the book read aloud. After a few rounds of interviews, students begin to think of new and interesting questions to ask their interviewees, including “What is your favorite food?,” “Do you have a computer?,” What are your favorite cloud shapes?” and “What is your favorite healthy food?”

After the interviews are complete, the information from each interview is recorded on a summary sheet by the teacher and is compiled into a class book that lives in the classroom library. Finally, the students create special thank you cards for each person who visited.