When your child has completed preschool at Loving Care Learning Center, he/she will have mastered the following skills:
Fine Motor
~Cutting many different shapes
~Writing all letters on primary lines
~Uses appropriate upper and lower case in their name
Self Help
~ Uses words to express themselves
~Takes responsibility for their own actions
~Understands the boundaries and rules of their classroom
~Is responsible for their own belongings
~Zips and buttons their own jacket
Math Skills
~Understands one to one correspondence
~Understands patterning
~Recognizes numbers up through 20
~Understands greater than less than
~Is familiar with addition and subtraction signs and can complete simple problems
~Is able to read a bar graph
~Recognizes coins and uses the correct name
Language Arts skills
~Recognizes all letters, upper and lowercase
~Recognizes most, if not all letter sounds
~Understands rhyming and can name rhyming words
~Understands beginning sounds and can hear them in a given word
~Can begin to hear middle and ending sounds in words as well
~Recognizes some sight words
~Understands that we read from left to right
~Understands that each letter has a sound and can hear it in words
~May possibly begin to read short text
Science Skills
~ Has an understanding of how day and night are related to the Earth’s rotation
~Understands the sun’s purpose
~Can classify living and nonliving objects
~Understands the seasons and their characteristics
~Can identify all of their body parts
~Understands habitats and their importance