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Pre-Kindergarten Program
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They can: - Use oral language skills to name, describe, compare, and contrast.
- Listen to, understand, and discuss themes from conversations, storybooks, rhymes, songs, and chants.
- Express their thoughts and feelings through movement and with language.
- Draw, dictate, write, build, and dramatize what they know and experience. Use prewriting strokes in art experiences to express their ideas and develop fine-motor skills.
- Retell stories and develop print awareness that connects spoken and written language.
- Learn concepts using math vocabulary words to identify and compare numbers of objects for more, less, same, or equal.
- Demonstrate problem-solving abilities, discuss predictions, and explain generalizations based on past experiences.
Teachers help children develop these abilities using curriculum that is aligned with standards for the Texas Pre-K Guidelines, Head Start, and the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC). We Can is a comprehensive curriculum that has been extensively field-tested and proven effective in public and private Pre-K classrooms for 17 years. We Can helps teachers deliver effective instruction that is learner-friendly. It creates success for preschoolers and teachers using a field-tested classroom management system that maximizes instructional time and allows teachers to spend less time on discipline. We Can provides daily lesson plans, comprehensive thematic units, and materials developed from Best Practices as identified in the research. Language and early literacy development are the core of the integrated curriculum, which includes math, science, social studies, fine arts, health and safety, personal and social development, physical development, and technology. Teachers can incorporate American Sign Language (ASL) into daily learning activities to enhance vocabulary development and increase word knowledge, using multilingual techniques to make instruction more meaningful.
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