VPK Curriculum

Kindergarten-Ready Learning Through Play & Discovery

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HEALTH AND WELLBEING

  • Active Physical Play
  • Safety Awareness
  • Personal Care Routines
  • Healthy Habits and Nutrition

MOTOR DEVELOPMENT

  • Gross Motor Development
  • Gross Motor Perception (Sensorimotor)
  • Fine Motor Development

EAGERNESS AND CURIOSITY

  • Investigate and Experiment

PERSISTENCE

  • Attends to Tasks

CREATIVITY AND INVENTIVENESS

  • Responding to Open Ended Questions

PLANNING AND REFLECTION

  • Brainstorming ideas

EMOTIONAL FUNCTIONING

  • Express and Identify Emotions
  • Demonstrate Appropriate A ect

MANAGING EMOTIONS

  • Self-Regulation

BUILDING AND MAINTAINING RELATIONSHIPS WITH ADULTS AND PEERS

  • Develop Positive Relationships
  • Social Problem Solving

SENSE OF IDENTITY AND BELONGING

  • Develops Self-Awareness and Independence

LISTENING AND UNDERSTANDING

  • Knowledge and Understanding though Listening

SPEAKING

  • Clarity of Speech

VOCABULARY

  • Increase Receptive and Expressive Language

SENTENCES AND STRUCTURE

  • Age
  • Appropriate Grammar and Syntax

CONVERSATION

  • Verbal and Nonverbal Communication

EMERGENT READING

  • Phonological Awareness
  • Alphabetic Print Knowledge

EMERGENT WRITING

  • Written Expression

NUMBER SENSE

  • Count and Identify 1-31
  • Quantify
  • One-to-One Correspondence

NUMBER AND OPERATIONS

  • Compose / Decompose Number Sets

PATTERNS

  • Identify, Extend, and Duplicate Simple AB Pattern

GEOMETRY

  • 2D & 3D Shapes
  • Sort and Classify
  • Create Shapes

SPATIAL RELATIONS

  • Besides, Next to, Between, Below, Over and Under

MEASUREMENT AND DATA

  • Measure objects Identify
  • Measurable Attributes
  • Place Objects in Sequence
  • Represent, Analyze, and Predict

SCIENTIFIC INQUIRY THROUGH EXPLORATION AND DISCOVERY

  • Explore social and Physical Environment
  • Use of Scientific Tools

LIFE SCIENCE

  • Living Things and their Environments

PHYSICAL SCIENCE

  • Movement and Speed

  • States of Matter

EARTH AND SPACE SCIENCE

  • Properties of Earth and Sky

ENVIRONMENT

  • Natural Resources
  • Conservation
  • Environmental Protection

ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY

  • Understanding use of simple tools and Machines to Solve Problems

CULTURE

  • Cultural Attributes of Self and Others

INDIVIDUAL DEVELOPMENT AND IDENTITY

  • Characteristics of Self

INDIVIDUALS AND GROUPS

  • Similarities of Self and Others
  • Role of Groups
  • Leadership

SPACES, PLACES AND ENVIRONMENTS

  • Personal Space
  • Maps, Globes, GPS
  • Human Impact on Environment

TIME, CONTINUITY AND CHANGE

  • Sequence of Events

GOVERNANCE, CIVIC IDEALS AND PRACTICES

  • Principles of Democracy

ECONOMICS AND RESOURCES

  • Recognizes Wants vs. Needs

TECHNOLOGY AND OUR WORLD

  • Impact on Daily Life

SENSORY ART EXPERIENCE

  • Open-Ended, Process-Oriented Materials

MUSIC

  • Individual and Group Activities
  • Represents Thoughts and Observations

CREATIVE MOVEMENT

  • Represent, Imagination, Feelings, Experiences and Knowledge

IMAGINATIVE AND CREATIVE PLAY

  • Dramatic Play

APPRECIATION OF THE ARTS

  • Cultural Perspectives

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