nursery CURRICULUM

Social & Emotional Development

• Grow in awareness of self

• Identify self by categories (gender, age, family, relationships)

• Know first name

• Develop a positive self-concept and self-esteem

• Contribute to classroom responsibility

• Share and cooperate with others

• Initiate play situations and learn how to establish relationships with friends

• Use good manners

• Help others in need 

Literacy & Language Develop

• Increase vocabulary and use in new contexts

• Identify and produce oral rhymes

• Name and describe pictured objects

• Express familiar routines, follows directions

• Tell simple personal narratives

• Use position and sensory words

• Show growing interest and involvement in a variety of books and poetry

• Independently engage in reading behavior

• Enjoy being read to, and hearing stories

• Recognize favorite books and understand that reading is informative

• Recognize own written name in a variety of contexts

• Recognize letters as distinct from numbers and other objects 

Math

• Recognize and name shapes and solids

• Predict, reproduce, and create simple patterns

• Create simple repeating patterns

• Understand objects which are the same and different

• Begin to sort objects

• Count by ones to ten

• Identify first, middle and last in a series

• Assemble simple puzzles

Science

• Continually grow in observations of the world around us

• Recognize primary colors

• Develop the five senses

Social Studies

• Begin to understand the way that people form a community

• Understand human relationships and roles

• Grow in awareness of religious and national holidays

Fine Arts 

• Experience different media

• Talk about art

• Participate in group music and learn some songs to sing independently

• Create original artwork

• Explore new instruments and types of music

• Engage in dramatic play with other children

• “Make believe” with objects

Health & Safety 

• Develop strength and endurance

• Walk up and down stairs

• Run, hop and climb

• Put coats and jackets on independently

• Strengthen muscles in hands and fingers

• Begin to use tools such as crayons, paint brushes and scissors

• Eat a variety of healthy foods

• Wash hands after toileting and before eating

• Learn to stay away from fire and not to touch electrical outlets

• Understand not to put things (except food) into the mouth

• Develop an awareness of keeping oneself and others safe