Pre-Kindergarten Program
Creative Kids Club's Pre-Kindergarten program is licensed by the Pennsylvania Department of Human Services. Creative Kids Club provides nap time cots, books, toys, an AM and PM snack, and a daily lunch as part of the child's tuition.
4 to 5 years
- Emotional Development
- Develop self-respect and confidence
- Social Development
- Differentiate between wants and needs
- Appreciate other cultures
- Recognize personal interests
- Recognize differences among people and families
- Recognize and observe the needs for rules
- Develop respect for others
- Have experience in and knowledge about the community and helpers
- Introduced to new cultures and places around the world
- Learn acceptable behaviors in society
- Demonstrate courtesy as a listener and a speaker
- Physical Development
- Use various types of equipment for large muscle development
- Practice simple motor skills in games and activities
- Perform simple gymnastics
- Practice ball skills
- Explore various movements through rhythmic activities
- Explore and participate in various activities and simple games
- Balance and hop on one foot
- Hold a pair of scissors correctly to snip, fringe, cut straight lines, etc.
- Draw from observation of things in the environment
- In additions to copying a triangle, copy a square and a circle
- Build a tower of ten blocks
- Cognitive Development
- Develop left to right sequence skills
- Understand the difference between reality and fantasy
- Participate in individual and cooperative learning activities
- Understand and respond to opposites
- Organize objects and information into categories
- Identify a circle, rectangle, square, triangle, diamond and a heart
- Introduction to recognizing geometric patterns
- Problem solve using daily living situations including sorting, classification and measurement
- Understand the concept of matching objects
- Name all the colors
- Develop good listening skills
- Recognize, say and write first name
- Listen to and follow a series of two step directions
- Participate in simple discussions
- Give personal information
- Use complete sentences in conversation
- Develop vocabulary to describe and express themselves
- Reading Readiness
- Recognize, name and print most upper case and some lower case letters
- Enjoy picture books, magazines and story books
- Listen to nursery rhymes and fairy tales to develop appreciation of literature
- Listen to stories, comprehend and predict events in sequence
- Communicate ideas and feelings through drawings and writing
- Retell familiar stories with correct sequence
- Compose an original story by dictation and then "read" it to others
- Recite poems and finger plays
- Science
- Identify and observe some basic needs of plant life
- Use a balance to compare the weight of two objects
- Learn about different climates and parts of the country
- Identify and observe some basic weather changes and select clothing and activities appropriate to the weather
- Develop the five senses
- Have a basic understanding of health and good foods and their importance
- Identify some visible body parts and their functions
- Classify foods by taste
- Learn that some plants are important food sources, but others are harmful
- Identify objects using only one sense at a time
- Math
- Recognize and print numerals 1 to 20
- Rote count from 1 to 20
- Sequence number from 1 to 20
- Count backwards from 10
- Recognize what numbers come before or after another number
- Being introduced to recognizing number patterns
- Establish one-to-one correspondence through matching members of equivalent sets
- Art, Music and Movement
- Being introduced to various painting media and techniques
- Being introduced to the spectrum of colors
- Experience the tactile quality of clay
- Draw a human figure with major body parts
- Experience different art medium to "create"
- Recognize and perform rhythms through listening, singing, moving, marching and playing classroom rhythm instruments
- Learn to use their singing voice to sing a variety of songs