Curriculum

Maple Hill Preschool is dedicated to offering children a program that is age appropriate coupled with a wide range of activities. Listed below are examples of the learning objectives found in both programs.

• Establish feelings of trust, openness, and safety in a classroom community
• Demonstrate his/her confidence in their range of abilities and express pride in accomplishment
• Share and take turns with others

• Explore painting, drawing, sculpture, collage, etc.
• Use a variety of art materials: crayons, tempera paint, watercolor paint, chalk, clay, etc.
• Experiment with mixing colors

• Pre-Reading
• Exposure to the alphabet: letter names and sounds
• Recognize, spell, and write first name
• Begin to explore phonological processing skills: rhyming, word segmenting

• Develop fine motor skills: play dough, scissors, pencils, Legos, etc.
• Explore painting and drawing
• Begin to write name

• Explore conversations with peers and adults in both large and small group discussions
• Hear and use new vocabulary words
• Children will start to understand words such as “in, by, with, to, over, and under”

• Pre-K Mathematics
• Numerals 1-10
• Rote counting from 1-10
• Time: day and night
• More or less

• Identify objects by size, shape, and color
• Begin to build structures with one or more dimension
• Label weather conditions: sunny, cloudy, raining, hot, cold, etc.

• Large Motor Development
• Run, jump, hop, gallop, skip, kick, catch and throw a ball
• Fine Motor Development
• Use hands and fingers to act out finger plays and songs

• Attend to personal needs and self help: hand washing, fasten clothing, use tissues as needed, etc.