Educational Goals for 3 year olds and Young 4's

• Full name
• Name of school
• Age
• Pledge of Allegiance
• "My Country Tis of Thee"
• City and State
• Body parts
• Recognize 8 basic colors: can tell you the name of color, can name objects that are the color
• Shapes: circle, square, triangle, rectangle
• Matching skills: matching colors, shapes, patterns, etc.
• Directional skills: next to, beneath, above, below, in, out, in front of, behind
• Count 1-10
• Make sets 1-10
• Recognize numerals 1-10
• Comparison of sizes: big to small, tall to short
• Classification skills
• Can repeat alphabet
• Can recognize upper and lower case letters
• Can recognize Letter People
• Gross motor skills
• Fine motor skills
• Music: should be singing in group well, know several finger plays and nursery rhymes
• Manners

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Educational and Social Goals for Pre-K

•  Can recognize and print first name
• Knows full name, age, and birth date
• Knows city and state
• Knows address and phone number, knows how to dial 911 in an emergency
• Days of the week
• Months of the year
• Four seasons
• Understands time related vocab (today, yesterday, tomorrow, day, night)
• Describes weather
• Shows an interest in books and reading
• Can repeat a story and/or make up one of their own
• Begins to differentiate reality from fantasy
• Recognizes rhyming words
• Recognizes beginning of sounds
• Begins to notice ending sounds
• Begins to recognize consonant blends (example: sh, wh, th)
• Recognizes upper and lower cases letters
• Can give examples of words that begin with each letter
• Can start to print several letters of the alphabet
• Can recognize a few sight words ( example: color words, number words)
• Classification skills: similarities and differences, placing objects in the right category
• Recognizes eight basic colors, along with pink, gray, and white.  Understands primary and secondary colors
• Shapes: circle, square, rectangle, triangle, star, heart, diamond, cylinder, cube, cone, sphere
• Fractions (whole and half)
• Directional skills: up down, under, over, beside, behind, inside, outside, next to, above, below
• Matching skills: able to match a pattern and tell what come next in the sequence
• Creates graphs using concrete objects or pictures
• Uses a graph to answer simple questions
• Understand concepts of more than and less than, same
• Can count 1-25
• Can make sets 1-10
• Recognizes quantitioes and numerals for 1-10
• Recognizes number words 1-10
• Begins to identify the position of object in a series (first, second. third, middle, next, last)
• Sorts and compares objects by size, length, weight, area (bigger, smaller, longer, shorter)
• Names and describes plant, animals, and humans
• Begins to recognize parts of the body
• Can descriminate from objects that are living and non-living
• Recognizes the five senses and body parts that utilize the five senses
• Demonstrates appropriate health habits
• Demonstrates appropriate safety skills
• Understands the idea that the earth includes land, water, and air
• Fine motor skills
• Gross motor skills
• Demonstrates coordination of large muscles to perform simple motor tasks
• Can wait turn and share
• Makes transitions form one activity to another with ease
• Begins to accept the consequences of his/her behavior
• Demonstrates appropriate use and care of classroom property
• Respects the property of others and of personal materials
• Follows established rules and simple two and three step directions
• Keeps hands to self, practices self control