Language and Literacy

Reading Comprehension

• Listening to and dramatizing stories and poems
  
• Creating classroom books
  
• Sequence of events
  
• Increasing attention span
  
• Rhyming

Literature Appreciation

• Scribing childrens' words
  
• Telling stories
  
• Awareness of different languages
  
• Dictating "experience stories"
  
• Associating written with spoken language
  
• Handling and using books
  
• Read Aloud

Letter Recognition

• Phonemic awareness
  
• Letter\sound
  
• Name recognition
  
• Labeling items in classroom
  
• Recognizing familiar sight words

Pre-Writing Skills

• Telling stories
  
• Awareness of different languages
  
• Writing and drawing with crayons

Language Expression

• Learning finger plays
  
• Listening to music
  
• Learning songs
  
• Creating puppets and performing puppet shows
  
• Following directions
  
• Developing vocabulary
  
• Oral expression
  
• Using art media to express feelings
  
• Participating in conversations

Math Skills

• Temperature
  
• Numbers (rote counting)
  
• Numerals (recognizing, copying, ordering)
  
• Measurements
  
• Size
  
• Creating sets and subsets
  
• One to one correspondence
  
• Spatial relations
  
• Recognizing, repeating and extending patterns
  
• Classifying and sorting
  
• Sequencing objects and events
  
• Matching sets
  
• Charts and graphs
  
• Differentiation of categories

Science

• Seasons
  
• Properties of water
  
• Plants and trees
  
• Life cycles and habits of animals
  
• Sink/float
  
• The Five Senses
  
• Weather, wind, clouds
  
• Experimenting
  
• Making predictions
  
• Observations

Social Studies

• Transportation
  
• Art Appreciation
  
• Music Appreciation
  
• Celebrations
  
• Animal Habitat
  
• Family

Hebrew Language

• Hebrew name recognition
  
• Aleph Bet Awareness
  
• Hebrew classroom vocabulary
  
• Hebrew songs
  
• Basic Hebrew sentences and expressions

Israel

• Yom Ha'atzmaut
  
• Yom Yerushalayim
  
• Songs of Israel
  
• Special places
  
• Customs and Culture
  
• Love of Israel
• Israeli Flag/blue & white

Mitzvot

• Introduction to Tefillah
  
• Shabbat
  
• Kashrut
  
• Berachot
  
• Chagim
  
• Weekly Parasha
  
• Chesed
  
• Tzedakah
  
• Love of Torah and Hashem

Other

• Physical Education
  
• Music
  
• Class Trips
  
• Parent/Grandparent Read Aloud
  
• Special Programs
  
• Monthly Rosh Chodesh Programs
  
• Bi-Monthly Oneg Shabbat Program
  
• Weekly Shabbat Parties
  
• Father/Child Chanukah Activity Day
  
• Parent/Child Gala Shabbat Celebration
  
• End of Year "See How I've Grown" Performance

Social \Emotional

• Feelings
  
• Expressing needs and wants
  
• Respecting individual differences
  
• Sharing and cooperation
  
• Friendships
  
• Following rules
  
• Problem solving
  
• Role playing