Pre-Kindergarten

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Tower’s Pre-Kindergarten program supports the understanding that positive relationships are essential for children to develop personal responsibility, self-regulation, and to foster academic learning and growth.

Tower’s research-based curriculum promotes learning for the whole child in all of the developmental domains: physical, cognitive, language, social, and emotional. Our days are intentionally designed to maximize learning through creative expression, play, and developmentally appropriate academic study. Young children’s learning is connected to their developmental needs.

Developmental readiness for school varies among young children. To honor that developmental range, Tower offers both a half-day academic program as well as a full-day academic program to our Pre-Kindergarten students.

Pre-Kindergarten Curriculum Overview

Mathematics

Sequence numerals 1-10
Count by 5s and 10s
Compare quantities and sizes of objects
Concept of zero
Estimate
Count with one-to-one correspondence
Begin to write numbers, associate a numeral with a quantity
Predict and extend patterns
Sorts and classifies information using limited variables
Recognize and name shapes
Create and interpret simple graphs
Develop sense of days in a week, months in a year

Language Arts

Phonemic awareness, including:
- develop rhyming awareness and construction
- identify words that rhyme
- identify individual phoneme isolation (beginning, middle, final)
- substitute and add beginning phoneme to make a new word
- say phonemes in words with 2, 3 and 4 phonemes
- alliteration
- sound and word discrimination,
- clap syllables in 2 and 3 syllable words
Interpret symbolic representation: able to recite ABC’s, letter awareness and recognition as a prequel to sight-word recognition, symbols, signs, labels, and rebuses are interpreted for language arts development
Introduction to Wilson Fundations Program
Understand the basic structure of a story (beginning, middle, and end) and be able to orally contribute to the creation or outline of a story or event
Illustrate pictures and signs to convey meaning
Apply early writing skills, incorporating name spelling and inventive spelling (spelling the sounds that you hear)

Social-Emotional Learning

Responsive Classroom approach; skills include: cooperation, assertion, responsibility, empathy, and self-control
- Practice habits of good classroom citizenship
- Develop self reliance and self-help skills
- Develop self-control by following rules and routines
- Listen to and respect others
- Identify the appropriate ways to resolve conflict within the classroom environment
- Understand the importance of sharing, taking turns, and working together

Science

Learn the basics of scientific method: observation, prediction, and conclusion
Chart weather patterns and make weather graphs
Exploration with rulers, yardsticks, and measuring tapes
Hibernation, animals in winter
Extensive focus on health, including: hygiene, food pyramid, healthy vs. unhealthy, exercise, sleep, germs
Five senses
Life cycles: pumpkins, plants
Care and maintenance of individual plants grown from seed
Life on a farm

Social Studies

Spanish

Library

Music

Visual Arts

Experiment with using primary colors to create secondary colors
Identify, draw, and combine different lines and simple geometric shapes to create more complex drawings
Understand the terms horizontal and vertical
Complete a 3-D multi-step long-term project
Create texture with clay
Be familiar and confident with a variety of materials and methods
Introduce and participate in a community critique using Pre-K art vocabulary

Physical Education

Curriculum

Upcoming Events

Jun 6 2023

Middle School Assembly

8:10 AM - 8:50 AM

158 - PAC

Jun 7 2023

Lower School Assembly

8:10 AM - 8:50 AM

158 - PAC

Jun 9 2023

Last Day of School

all day

Jun 9 2023

All School Assembly

8:10 AM - 8:50 AM

102 - Gym

Inquire about our half-day and full-day options for Pre-Kindergarten

For information about our half-day and full-day options, contact Reagan Kenwell, Director of Admissions, Pre-K–4.

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