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Curriculum
For School Year 2010-2011, CDC is pleased to announce the addition to our staff of a literacy and computer specialist. Pre-K threes, fours, and our transitional kindergarten students will have the opportunity to visit our computer lab and work with our literacy specialist individually and in small groups, insuring they are ready for the next step in a lifetime of learning!
1-Year-Olds:
- Gaining a sense of independence
- Separation from parents, realizing the parent will return
- Socialization – sharing, taking turns, etc.
- Gross motor skills – walking, running, hopping
- Language development and vocabulary – through songs and finger plays
- Learning about God’s love
2-Year-Olds:
- Socialization – sharing, taking turns, etc.
- Gaining a greater sense of independence
- Increasing language usage and vocabulary
- Recognizing their name in print
- Introducing the alphabet
- Counting skills
- Shapes and colors
- Group games
- Fine motor manipulative activities
- Music and Movement enrichment class
- Learning about God’s love
3-Year-Olds:
- Gaining a sense of independence, responsibility and self-reliance
- Cooperation and respect for others
- Using words to express feelings
- Listening and following directions
- Communicating needs
- Fine motor activities such as cutting and holding a pencil correctly
- Introducing the alphabet and beginning sounds
- Increasing language usage and vocabulary
- Recognize and print their name
- Understanding beginning math concepts such as recognizing numbers, one-to-one correspondence, sorting and classifying
- Learning about God’s love
Enrichment activities for 3-year-old children include Chapel and Music and Movement.
4-Year-Olds and Transitional Kindergarten:
- Gaining a sense of independence, responsibility and self-reliance
- Cooperation and respect for others
- Learning about school protocol – waiting their turn, walking in a line, routine, etc.
- Participation in group activities
- Listening and following directions and classroom rules
- Pre-reading skills – letters and sounds, beginning and ending sounds, rhyming words, recognizing and reading environmental print, etc.
- Reading readiness - print carries a message, print runs from top to bottom, left to right, etc.
- Writing letters and numbers
- Beginning math, science and history
- Learning about God’s love
Enrichment activities for 4-year-old and transitional kindergarten classes include Chapel, Music and Movement, and Spanish.
Children’s Discovery Center is licensed by the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services.
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