Curriculum Guidelines

These were the curriculum guidelines used in producing Early Learning Solutions . Many of the center activities and stories will help you achieve these curriculum expectations.

Language Arts

• Identify the front, back, title and author of a book.
• Demonstrate top to bottom, left to right progression in reading.
• Recognize the name of the alphabet letters, both upper- and lower-case.
• Use this knowledge to identify their corresponding sounds in the beginning and ending of words, such as the m and n in the word man.
• Make up words that rhyme (e.g. bunny and money.)
• Begin the process of blending sounds together and reading CVC pattern words (e.g. d-a-d)
• Begin to identify high frequency words or sight words (e.g. I, and, the.)
• Able to recognize color words.
• Orally recite the days of the week and the month.
• Make story predictions by using picture clues.
• Retell the story read.

Writing

• Able to print his/her name legibly.
• Print the alphabet letters both upper- and lower-case.
• Use pictures, letters and words to communicate written expression.
• Write the alphabet letters that correspond to the related sounds.
• Begin to print simple words by blending the sounds together (e.g. c-a-t.)
• Prints from left to right and from top to bottom .

Math

• Understands one-to-one correspondence.
• Sorts and classifies objects according to common characteristics.
• Can recognize and create patterns. (e.g. red, blue, red, blue or boy, girl, boy, girl).
• Understand simple bar graphs and interpret how they help us gather information.
• Can count to 100.
• Identify and print numbers 1-10.
• Can identify and draw basic shapes such as rectangle, square, circle and triangle.
• Able to reproduce these shapes.
• Makes comparisons and can express them in terms of more, less, equal, heavier, warmer and cooler.
• Tell time to the hour (not included in the program).
• Identify half and whole (not included in the program).
• Use positional words such as under, over, on, below and above.
• Begin to make use of simple adding and subtracting problems. (e.g. 3 candies and 2 more equals 5).
• Identifies penny, nickel, dime and quarter (not included in the program). Depending where you live this term may vary .

Social Studies and Science

The information within the theme units will meet most of the curriculum expectations in these two areas.