| Departments:
Early Childhood: Objectives
The
curriculum content of the early childhood integrated classroom
follows the standards established by the National Association
for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC), as well as
the Massachusetts Pre-Kindergarten Curriculum Frameworks.
It focuses on each "whole" child. The activities
selected and designed by classroom staff contribute to and
enhance the logical development and maturational level of
all students participating in the program at a given time.
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| ENGLISH/LANGUAGE
ARTS
- To
increase the desire to communicate to others
- To
increase vocabulary
- To
increase the ability to listen to others
- To
develop understanding and use of pronouns, adverbs, adjectives
and prepositions
- To
respond and use "who, what, where and why" questions
- To
facilitate improved articulation on an individual basi
- To
develop individualization of fingers
- To
involve child in activities designed to increase upper shoulder
girdle strength and stability
- To
develop the use of the non-dominant hand as a functional
assist
- To
develop eye-hand coordination
- To
develop visual-perceptual skills
- To develop adequate wrist extension
- To
develop the ability to work from left to right (scanning)
and from top to bottom (figure ground)
- To
develop the ability to color or paint within an enclosed
figure
- To
develop appropriate grasp of a writing instrument
- To
develop representational drawing
- To
facilitate copying of shapes
- To
develop auditory discrimination of environmental sounds
and rhythmic patterns
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| HISTORY/SOCIAL
SCIENCE
- To
respond with appropriate affect or action in social situations
- To
develop a positive self image
- To
develop self-control
- To
encourage self-initiation
- To
decrease dependency on adults
- To
participate as part of a group
- To
increase sharing and turn taking
- To
develop an interest in the community (people other than
self and immediate family)
- To
encourage cooperative play
- To
encourage the development of "make pretend"
- To
facilitate an awareness of the environment and an appreciation
for how things work
- To
encourage verbal display of displeasure or frustration
- To
begin to develop independent work habits
- To
develop independent grooming habits
- To
develop independent toileting, if appropriate
- To
develop care and respect of personal belongings
- To
develop the ability to move outside of the classroom independently
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| SCIENCE
- To
increase body awareness
- To
develop positive self-image
- To
increase motor planning abilities
- To
develop large muscle coordination (i.e. running, jumping,
balancing, ball skills)
- To
begin to develop the ability to move to rhythm
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To develop the identification of body parts
- To
develop understanding of positional concepts (i.e. in, on,
under, in front, in back)
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MATH
- To
develop understanding of comparison concepts (i.e. same/different,
empty/full, short/long, more/less, first/last, through/around)
- To
develop the ability to use multiple classification
- To
increase problem solving abilities
- To
begin to develop an understanding of math readiness through
matching, counting, ordering, sorting and seriating objects
(largest to smallest)
- To
begin to develop reading readiness skills through color
and shape identification, matching patterns, classifying
objects and pictures and identifying similarities and differences
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