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Golden Step's Curriculum              Programs:

​1-2 Year Old Preschool Class

Congnitive Development

  • Exploring Objects

  • One on One Correspondence

  • Locating Objects

Gross Motor Development/ Physical Development and Health

  • Crawling, Pushing, Pulling & Reaching

  • Moving With objects

  • Moving Parts of the Body

Creative Arts Music and Art

  • Age Appropriate Activities For Stimulation & Enrichment 

  • Listening to Music

  • Children Explore & Imitate sounds

Languagement Development Communication, Language,& Literacy

  • Talking

  • Listening

  • Sound

  • Eye contact

Approaches to learning

  • Children Express initiative

  • Self-Help: Children do things for themselves

Outdoor Play

  • Older infants Only and in Certain weather Conditions

Circle Time

  • Songs and learning Activities

Carpet time

  • Playing with Appropriate Toys

  • Infant Gyms and Moblies

Meals/formulas/Naps

*Per Each Babies Schedule

Daily Reports 

* Are Available and Ready For Parents At Dismissal

Social and Emotional Development

  • Relationships With Teachers and Adults 

  • Relationships With Peers

Sensory Activities

  • Textures, Touch & Feeling

  • Moving With Objects

Fine motor Development

  • Turning

  • Tracking

  • Grasping

Sign Language

  • Opens Up communication For Babies

Language Development

  • Share in story time

  • Learn to speak clearly

  • Learn to communicate in sentence

  • Answer quetions

  • Use language to communicate wants and needs

  • Learn language through finger plays

  • Self-select books that are of personal interest

  • Expand Thier vocabulary through conversation and literature

  • Use listening games for sound identification

Reading Readiness

  • Identify some colors

  • Identify some body parts

  • Identify some human feelings

Fine Motor skills

  • Exhibit Hand Dominance

  • Hold and use Crayons, Pencils and markers correctly

  • use sissors correctly and attempt to cut on a straight line

  • Create with Easel,Watercolor and finger paint

  • Glue pieces together

  • Attempt simple puzzle assemble (6-8 pieces)

  • Create with play-dough

  • Manipulate pegs in hole

  • Build with deploys,bristle and wooden blocks

  • Attempt to manipulate Zippers

  • Create with Stamps and stencils

Gross Motor Skills

  • Walk up and down the steps one foot per step

  • Walk Backwards and Forwards

  • Run, walk, jump,gallop and skip to music

  • Hop on one foot and on two feet

  • Throw a large ball forward

  • Kick a large ball forward

  • Catch a beanbag

  • Do circle games in a group

Music 

  • Sing songs in a group

  • Learn to imitate songs

  • Create movement through various forms of rhythm

  • Play selected classroom instruments

  • Be introduced to different forms of music

  • Participate in a group musical exercise

Emotional/ Social Development

  • Respond to the teacher's  direction

  • Respect and show concern for people and things and around them

  • Play and share cooperatively with other children

  • Have a good self-image

  • Have appropriate control over their feelings

  • Work in small groups

  • Learning to take turns

  • Develop good listening skills

  • Develop good work habits

Math Readiness

  • Identify the Four (4) Basic shapes

  • Use counting activities and games

  • Rote count to (10)

  •  Sort and classify object

  • Recognize some numbers

  • Identify size difference (Big, little)

  • Find shapes in their enviornment

  • Be introduced to numbers through daily calendar exercise

  • Match one to one correspondence

Science 

  • Explore the (5) senses

  • Identify and describe the four (4) seasons

  • Observe and identify weather characteristics with a daily weather chart

  • Describe how seasonal changes affect people, plants and animals

  • Learn about dinosaurs, oceans, the rain forest and the jungle

  • Learn about space and the plants

  • Learn about cooking by mixing, measuring and observing Physical Changes in food

Social Studies

  • Learning about community Helpers such as: firefighters, EMT, police, Etc.

Transitional Kindergarten Class

​Language Development

  • Say First And Last Name

  • Learn to Speak Clearly

  • Learn to communicate in sentences

  • Answer questions when asked

  • Use language to communicate wants and needs

  • Verbally recall parts of a story

  •  Expand Vocabulary through the use of symbols, conversations and literature

  • Learn language through finger-plays

​Reading Readiness

  • Attempt to say the alphabet (rote)

  • Identify lower case letters

  • Identify upper case letters

  • Print first name and last name

  • Recognize eight colors

  • Identify human feelings( sad, happy etc)

  • Know some opposite words (hot, cold)

  • Know some position orientation words (top, bottom)

  • Recognize first name in print

​Math Readiness

  • Identifying the Four (4) Basic Shapes by using counting activities and games

  • Rote counting to ten (10)

  • Count Objects to Ten (10)

  • Sort and classify objects

  • Recognize numbers

  • Identify size difference (big, little) 

  • Find shapes in there enviorment

  • Sequence different sizes ( small, smaller, smallest)

  • Categorize objects ( shape, colors,size,textures)

  • Be introduced to numbers through daily calendar exercises

  • Match one to one correspondence

  • Learn identical matching

​Science Readiness

  • Exploring the Five (5) senses

  • Identify and describe the Four (4) Seasons

  • Observe and identify the weather characteristics with a daily weather chart

  • Describe how seasonal change affect people, plants, and animals

  • Discuss various animals and their habitats and their behavior

  • Learn about dinosaurs, the ocean, the rain forest and the jungle

  • Learn about space and the planets

  • Experience different media in the water table

  • Learn about cooking by mixing, measuring and observing physical changes in food​

Social Studies

  • Learning about community helpers such as firefighters, EMT, Police, etc.

  • Learning about pilgrims and native Americans

Music

  • Singing in groups

  • Learning to Imitate songs

  • Create movement through various forms of rhythm

  • Play selected classroom instruments

  • Be introduced to different forms of music 

  • Participate in a group musical exercise

Emotional /Social Development

  • Respond to the teacher's direction

  • Respect and show concern for people and things around them

  • Play and share cooperatively with other children

  • Have good self-image

  • Have appropriate control over their feelings

  • Work in small groups

  • Learn to take turns

  • Develop good listening skills

  • Develop good work Habits

3 Year Old Preschool Classroom
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