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G2 and G3 Classes (Preschool for Two- and Three-Year-Olds)

Language Skills

• Listening: understanding language and sounds, paying attention to others, naming sounds, listening to music and playing instruments, following simple (and eventually more complex) directions

• Talking: using words that others can understand, growing vocabulary, naming common objects, describing what he/she is doing, describing how he/she feels and what he/she thinks, describing what has happened in the past, learning the rules of how sentences are structured

• Learning the Sounds of Letters: beginning to understand the sounds that letters make, can hear sound patterns and repeat them, singing short songs and say simple rhymes

• Looking at Books: noticing letters and words in books, looking at pictures and turning pages, telling a story by following the pictures in a book

Math and Reasoning Skills

• Understanding Numbers: reciting numbers 1-30, counting objects, writing numbers

• Pattern Recognition: copying and continuing patterns that the child sees or hears and makes with his/her body

• Comparing and Sorting Items: telling the differences between sizes of objects, grouping things together that are the same, putting things in order (example: from smallest to largest)

• Learning Basic Shapes: recognizing and naming different shapes, identifying various shapes in images and in world around him/her

• Learning Parts of the Whole: understanding that objects can be divided into parts, recognizing which object or part of an object is missing

Science Skills

• Observing Nature: noticing people and animals, talking about animals and where they live, beginning to notice things about self and others

• Learning About Seasons and Time: noticing the world around him/her, describing the weather, noticing the passage of time

• Investigating Things: beginning to explore and experiment, noticing textures, recognizing basic colours, noticing the five senses

• Learning About Health and Safety: learning the rules of health care and safety, becoming more independent when washing hands/using the bathroom/eating, following rules during fire drills, recognizing dangerous situations

Social and Emotional Skills

• Playing With Others: playing in different areas with different children, playing alone/next to another child/with others, using imagination in different play centers

• Taking Care of Oneself: learning to take care of him/herself, exploring centers and deciding where to play, solving own problems, doing many things alone and getting help when needed

• Participating in the Classroom: following classroom rules and routines, following simple requests, helping with cleanup, caring for classroom toys and materials, taking turns, talking to other children, participating in circle time, respecting belongings of others

• Expressing Feelings: learning to control expression of his/her own feelings, expressing anger without hurting another, learning to recognize facial expressions in others and how to behave appropriately in response, learning to make choices, learning to accept help from others

Physical Skills

• Practicing Coordination: developing balance and coordination, moving in rhythm with songs and music

• Practicing Movement: practicing throwing/catching/jumping/kicking/ crawling/climbing etc.

• Working with Hands: developing fine motor skills, learning to manipulate smaller objects with his/her hands, experimenting with writing