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