Traditional/ Montessori Pre-School Curriculum Guides

Fine Motor Skills:

• Using multisensory materials to master snapping, buttoning, zipping, and cutting

• Activity works that develop individual focus and concentration

• Proper introduction and greetings (eye contact and firm handshake)

• Using every day manners

• Spatial awareness regarding people/personal space and things/ object space

Fine/Gross Motor Skills:

• Inquiry based learning via center work

• Using geometric shapes, long rods, and bi-nomial and tri-nomial cubes to establish sensory input skills

• Explore five senses through thought provoking text and photographs

Independent Skills:

• Dressing oneself in outdoor apparel (coats, hats, mittens, and boots)

• Washing hands

• Cleaning up after oneself

• Table manners

• Peacekeeping skills through virtue/character education

• Know left from right

• Tie Shoes

• Greetings

Letter Work:

• Form upper and lower case letters

• Moveable alphabet to build words

• Sandpaper letters

• Use metal inset tracing tray

• Vowel and consonant recognition

• Introduce letter sound

• Develop fine motor skills

• Proper pencil grip

• Write first and last name

• Develop basic reading skills

• Phonics Blends

• Memorize Poetry and nursery rhymes

Number Sense:

• Discover math with hands on approach

• Develop concentrate understanding of math via physical materials

• One to one correspondence

• Associate symbols to quantities

• Matching similar shapes to objects

• Understand even/odd

• Understand more, less, and equal

• Counting skills

• Skip counting

• Write numbers 1-9

• Order numbers 1-100 using manipulatives

• Basic addition and subtraction via familiar work

• Counting Down

Calendar

• Use the terms today, tomorrow, and yesterday correctly

• Seasons

• Holidays

• Date

Map Skills:

• See, hold, and trace sections of the world in order to identify each continent, country, and state via puzzles

• Explore land forms such as volcanoes, mountains, rivers, lakes via land and water form trays

Solar System:

• Explore solar system via three dimensional planet models and cards

Living and Nonliving Things:

• Plant life cycle

• Characteristics of plants and animals

• Animal life cycle

• Rocks

• Leaf Rubbings

Qualities of Water:

• Float and sink

• Solids

• Liquids

• Gases

Nutrition

• Food Groups

Religion:

• Catechesis of the Good Shepherd

• Follow liturgical calendar

Introduction to the Bible:

• Parabables

• Sacramentals

• Marian Devotions

Prayers:

• Hail Mary

• Guardian Angel

• Our Father

• Grace Before Meals

Music:

Basic elements of music:

• Rhythm

• Melody

• Traditional songs

Physical Educations:

Gross Motor Skills:

• Balance

• Jump

• Skip

• Coordination

• Group games

• Counting skills

Art:

• Primary/secondary color patterns

• Project based works