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Preschool Outcomes Check List name:______As child meets the objectives listed, write the date in the achieved column to track progress. Use one chart for each child in the classroom.

Math Objective Achieved

Size / • Understands big and little.
• Understands long and short
• Matches shapes or objects based on size.
Colors and Shapes / • Recognizes and names primary colors.
• Recognizes circles.
• Recognizes rectangles.
• Matches shapes or objects based on shape.
• Copies shapes.
Numbers / • Counts orally through 10.
• Counts objects in one-to-one correspondence.
• Understands empty and full.
• Understands more and less.
Time / • Understands day and night.
• Knows age and birthday.

Listening and Sequencing Objectives Achieved

• Follows simple direction.
• Listens to a short story.
• Listens carefully.
• Can recognize common sounds.
• Repents a sequence of orally given numbers and sounds.
• Retells simple stories in sequence.

Reading Readiness Objectives

Achieved

• Remembers objects from a given picture.
• Knows what a letter is.
• Has been read to frequently.
• Has been read to daily.
• Looks at books and magazines.
• Recognizes some nursery rhymes.
• Identifies parts of the body.
• Identifies objects that have a functional use.
• Knows common farm and zoo animals.
• Pronounces own first name.
• Pronounces own last name.
• Expresses self verbally.
• Identifies other children by name.
• Tells the meaning of simple words.
• Repeats a sentence of 6-8 words.
• Completes incomplete sentence with proper word.
• Has own books.
• Understands that print carries a message.
• Pretends to read.
• Uses left-to-right progression.
• Answers questions about a short story.
• Tells the meaning of words heard in story.
• Looks at pictures and tells a story.
• Identifies own first name in manuscript.
• Prints own first name.

Position and Direction Objectives Achieved

• Understands up and down.
• Understands in and out.
• Understands front and back.
• Understands over (on) and under.
• Understands top, bottom, middle.
• Understands beside and next to.
• Understands hot and cold.
• Understands fast and slow.

Motor Skills Objectives

• Is able to run.
• Is able to walk a straight line.
• Is able to jump, hop and march.
• Is able to alternate feet walking down stairs.
• Is able to stand on one foot for 5-10 seconds.
• Is able to walk backwards for five feet.
• Is able to throw a ball.
• Pastes objects.
• Claps hands.
• Matches simple objects.
• Touches fingers.
• Able to button a garment
• Builds with blocks.
• Completes simple puzzles (5 pieces or less).
• Draws and colors beyond a simple scribble.
• Able to zip a zipper.
• Controls pencil and crayon well.
• Cuts simple shapes and handles scissors well.
• Able to copy simple shapes.

Social-Emotional Development Objectives

• Can be away from their care givers for 2-3 hours without being upset
• Takes care of toilet needs independently.
• Feels good about self.
• Is not afraid to go to school.
• Cares for own belongings.
• Knows full name.
• Dresses self.
• Knows how to use handkerchief or tissue.
• Knows own sex.
• Brushes teeth.
• Crosses residential street safely.
• Asks to go to school.
• Knows parents’ names.
• Knows home address.
• Knows home phone number.
• Enters into casual conversation.
• Carries a plate of food.
• Maintains self-control.
• Gets along well with other children.
• Plays with other children.
• Recognizes authority
• Shares with others.
• Talks easily.
• Likes teachers.
• Meets visitors without shyness.
• Puts away toys.
• Able to stay on task.
• Able to work independently.
• Helps family with chores.

Sample Classroom Schedule(9:00-12:00)

9:00- 9:30 Morning Meeting

Lords Prayer and Golden Rule

Talk about the weather, show them the date on a calendar, have a few children share show and tell, introduce the letter of the day, number of the day or color of the week.

9:30-10:00 Story Time

Read a selected book and have activities which reinforce theme, moral, or songs

10:00-10:30 Creative Movement

Physical activities and creative movement games

10:30- 10:45 Snack and Clean up

10:45- 11:45 Pre math and science

Pre math activity sheet work, math experiments, science story books and science experiments

11:45- 12:00 Free Play

Centers set up. Examples: Arts/Crafts, Housekeeping, Blocks,

ClayCenter, Manipulatives, Books/Music, Drama, Water/Sand, SurpriseCenter. This just a brief list of ideas you could use for centers. The surprise center could be science related, or highlighting a favorite children’s author, it could introduce a weekly theme and be changed either daily or weekly.

Activity Centers Supply Check List

Art Center / HousekeepingCenter
Fat crayons and markers / Old pans and dishes
Construction paper, newsprint / Silverware, mixing spoons, and bowls
Scissors / Play stove, refrigerator, and table set
Scotch tape / Dolls and doll items
Glue sticks or white craft glue / Play Foods and food containers
Old magazines and catalogs / BlocksCenter
Hole punch, stapler, staples / Wooden blocks
Yarn and string / Plastic people and animals
Paper towels and rags for clean up / Large cardboard blocks
Stickers / Lego or other interlocking blocks
Cotton balls / Toy cars, trains, trucks, boats, vehicles
Paper bags and plates / ClayCenter
Water colors, tempera and brushes / Clay
Paint smocks / Play dough
Books/Music Center / Damp sponge for clean up
Story books (Bible and children’s) / Cookie cutters, molds, press, tools
Themed books / ManipulativesCenter
CD/tape player / Puzzles (wooden and cardboard)
CDs and cassettes / Wooden string beads
Rhythm instruments / Sewing cards
DramaCenter / Peg boards
Fabric remnants / Water/Sand Center
Adult clothing (hats, scarves, ties) / Shallow pans, sand table, water table
Hula hoops / Water and sand
Flags and streamers / Plastic containers, strainers, molds
Puppets / Hand shovels, spoons other tools

Trace the Circles

Trace the Shapes Activity Pages

This page can be used for a number of activities. Print 5 copies per student (or one laminated) and change the instructions to alter the activity. For example:

1) Color the big circle red. Color the small circle green.Put an X on 3 circles. Draw a face on one circle. Draw 2 circles on your own in the box below. Practice drawing more circles on the back of this page.

2) Put an X on the big circle. Draw a box around the small circle. Color 2 circles yellow and one circle blue. Draw the sun inside one of the circles. Draw 4 circles in the box below. Draw a picture on the back and count how many circles you drew in your picture.

3) In each circle draw a picture of something that is round. In the box below practice drawing circles.

4) Color all the circles then cut them out. Tape them to yarn and make your own circle mobile. Look through old magazines and cut out pictures of things that are round and hang them from your mobile too.

5) Color all the circles green, cut them out and tape them together in order from largest to the smallest. Add cut out scraps for eyes and other decorations to make a caterpillar or snake. Add a piece of yarn to drag your new pet for a walk. What pets could you make with other shapes?

6) Draw eyes inside 2 circles, and color one circle any color. Paste to a paper bag to make a puppet and take turns telling stories.

7) Tape the activity page to heavy cardboard and trace with a sharp pencil the shapes of circles. Carefully cut the circles out to make a stencil. The students can trace the stencil many times on one piece of paper and see what design they can come up with. Have them color their masterpieces and decorate the classroom with their original art.

8) Trace one circle onto heavy cardboard and cut the middle out as if you were making a stencil. Use this viewer to take a mini field trip to explore the classroom or playground for objects that fill the shape viewer.

9) These ideas could be used with any Trace the Shape activity pages.

Trace the Triangles

Trace the Squares

Trace the Rectangles

Paper Shape Patterns

Photocopy onto colored paper and cut the shapes out before hand. Children can use the shapes to make mosaic pictures, decorate craft items, make patterns, or collage.

You could alsocut these shapes out of old magazines for arts and craft projects.

Shape Poems

Use these poems to help students remember the shapes.

Circles
If you were a circle,
you could go without end.
You could have circles without
and circles within.
Triangles
1-2-3 I'm acute as can be!

Square
If four sides are
all the same,
a square is this shape’s name!
Rectangle
My four sides are not the same.
2 are short and 2 are long.
A rectangle is this shape’s name.

Photocopy and enlarge for classroom decoration, or copy the pages and staple together for a shapes book for each student.

Number Flash Cards

one / 1 /
two / 2 /
three / 3 /
four / 4 /
five / 5 /

Photocopy onto cardstock or construction paper and enlarge if desired. These cards can be printed in black and white and hand colored but you may also wish to print as here in color(click on the shape, click on fill color and select white to edit to a copy to photocopy in black and white only). Cards can be used for matching games, match the number with the object box, match the number with the word, or match all three. They can also be used to decorate the classroom, bulletin board, or black board. For more durable cards cover the cards with clear packing tape, contact paper or laminate. Make a set for each child and store in a shoe box with 10 counters each child (extra large buttons, bread ties, bottle caps, or extra large wooden beads). These can be used for counting and teaching +1 or -1.

Number Flash Cards (2)

six / 6 /
seven / 7 /
eight / 8 /
nine / 9 /
ten / 10 /
1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5
6 / 7 / 8 / 9 / 10

Pattern Puzzles

Photocopy, cut out and laminate. Use paper shape patterns to make play pieces. Have children create 3 rows of patterns in the blocks.

Practice Your Tracing

Practice printing your name on the lines above.

My Reading Log name: ______

Title of Book Author Date

Great reading little buddy!

Return to your teacher filled out for a special reward!

Class Room Reward Badges

Use these badges to encourage positive behavior

Sample Classroom Rules (good idea to post as a reminder)

Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.

In class we…

Listen carefully when the teacher is talking
Share with others
Follow directions
Use our indoor voice

We take good care of our things and the things we use in the class room.

We do not…

Interrupt
Push or shove
Yell
Or take things that are not ours

Creative Movement

Rhythmic Dance Steps

Key for clapping Rhythms

tum= a beat that is accented

ta= a short beat

&= a brief pause or change in action

1)walking- swinging arms, clap tum, tum, tum, tum

2)running- swinging arms, clap ta, ta, ta, ta, ta, ta, ta

3)marching- brisk even steps, knees high, arms swinging, clap tum, tum, tum, tum

4)galloping- lead with same foot thoughout, back foot pulls up to front with a shuffle, clap tat um, tat um, tat um, ta tum

5)sliding- one foot leads, the other slides to meet it, hands on waist or outstretched to the side, clap tum, tum, tum, tum

6)hopping- on one foot or two, hands on waist or outstretched, clap ta, ta, ta, ta, ta, brief pause, ta, ta, ta, ta

7)jumping- arms outstretched for balance, with feet together clap

tum, tum, tum, tum

8)skipping- series of step-hops, arms swing opposite to raised knee clap

tum ta, tum ta, tum ta, tum ta

Teach the children each of the steps and call the movement out to see if they remember each movement, this can be done with or with out music.

Other Creative Movement Activities

using parachutes for games and dance
using worship flags and streamers
teaching sign language and mime
dancing with fabric trailing behind
using hula hoops for games and dance
bouncing balls to music
finger plays
statue games and freeze tag
echo clapping games
musical instruments and marching parades

I know mycolors…

red andblue

green

yellow

brown

purple

black and

Colorful Ideas

have child collect pictures from magazines and create books, murals, posters, bulletin board displays for each color
have a Rainbow Show and Tell day, with children bringing in objects of a selected color or all colors
Show the children how to mix different colors with paint
Collect books about colors and rainbows and make a library display
Sing songs about colors and rainbows.

My Chore Chart

I can… / Mon / Tue / Wed / Thurs / Fri / Sat / Sun

Do my Devotions
pray
make my bed

pick up my toys
dress myself alone
brush my teeth
go alone and wash

Bathroom Reminders

This picture can be laminated and hung in your bathroom to remind preschoolers to wash their hands after using the restroom.

Provide liquid soap for easy clean up, when a child asks to use the rest room you can kindly remind them to use the special soap that is there just for them.

Always check before class that there are enough supplies (toilet paper, soap and paper towel for dying) for the class.

Story Review Questions

Cut these cards out and store in a plastic container, laminate for durability. These questions can be asked after reading any book but will help you evaluate if you are meeting your teaching objectives.

Are your students…

• Listening carefully to a short story?

• Able to retell simple stories in sequence?

• Being read to frequently and daily?

• Looking at the book (words and illustrations)?

• Expressing themselves verbally when asked questions about the story?

Did you like the story? / Who would like to act out the story?
What was your favorite part? / If you were the main character what
would you have done differently?
What didn’t you like about the story? / How did the story end?
Who was the main character? / What happened to the main
character when …..
Do you think this story could
have really happened? / What can we learn from this story?
What happened first? / Would you like to read another
story written by the same person?