Oak Grove Prep is a Pre-Kindergarten program for students who have turned 4 by September 1st of the current school year.
Oak Grove Prep promotes the social, emotional, physical, and intellectual development of each child by providing an array of stimulating activities to promote aesthetic and cultural awareness, academic readiness, motor development, and social skills. The daily program is orderly but flexible. It provides for a variety of experiences, levels of difficulty, and pacing. There is a balance between indoor and outdoor activities. Both quiet and active learning experiences are provided. Teachers interact with children on both an individual and group basis. Children are given the opportunity to initiate their own activities, as well as participate in teacher guided activities.
Goals
Oak Grove Prep curriculum provides a variety of developmentally appropriate activities and materials that emphasize concrete experiential learning in order to achieve the following goals:
- Have fun!
- Develop social skills.
- Encourage cognitive development through thinking, reasoning, questioning, and experimenting.
- Encourage language and literacy development.
- Encourage development of mathematical concepts.
- Enhance physical development of gross and fine motor muscles.
- Develop an understanding and appreciation of God’s Word and world.
Logistics:
Oak Grove Prep meets twice a week from 8:45a-12:30p. Students bring a sack lunch and enjoy plenty of playtime, circle time, craft time and even some quiet time. Oak Grove Prep is designed to ease our youngest students into the school environment and specifically into a University-Model School. Parents can expect a few worthy home day activities, however, Co-teaching won’t really begin until students enter Kindergarten.
Other Standards and Objectives Aimed for at Oak Grove Prep:
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| Reading |
- Pretend to read a book.
- Turn one page at a time.
- Name objects from picture book.
- Hold book right side up, looking at pages and pictures.
- Turn pages from front to back.
- Tell something that a favorite character does in a story.
- Distinguish print from pictures.
- Watch and listen to a story to completion for ten or more minutes
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| Comprehension |
- Identify letters of the alphabet
- Voice the sounds of single-letter phonograms
- Imitate simple rhymes.
- Sing the alphabet song.
- Clap out syllables in word songs.
- Point to a title of a book.
- Name objects from picture books.
- Ask and answer simple questions about the story being read.
- Tell one thing that happened in a familiar story.
- Tell simple stories from pictures and books.
- Pretend to do something or be someone.
- Participate in familiar, scripted events and classroom routines.
- Ask questions or make comments about the story being read.
- Relate personal information to a story being read.
- Describe a picture in a book.
- Follow a reader’s finger as a story is read.
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| Handwriting/Dexterity |
- Manipulate an object with one hand.
- Cut with scissors.
- Create letters using clay, wood pieces
- Draw straight lines.
- Draw curved lines.
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| Speaking and Listening |
- Follow one-step spoken directions without prompts (e.g. get in line)
- Ask and answer simple questions.
- Repeat simple sentences as presented.
- Imitate four to five word sentences.
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| Mathematics |
- Sing and dance to a number song, game, etc.
- Count a number or objects up to ten.
- Count each object only once.
- Imitate counting behavior using the names of large numbers.
- Identify first and last.
- Count backwards from five.
- Identify the concept of “none”
- Count on fingers
- Identify and use the concepts of “one more” and “one less”.
- Identify the missing parts (e.g. the door of a car, the nose of a dog).
- Sort by one attribute (e.g. size, shape, color).
- Use “in” and “out” to indicate where things are in space.
- Use “on” and “off” to indicate where things are in space.
- Use the words “here” and “there” to indicate where things are in space.
- Identify circles, squares, triangles, and rectangles.
- Identify ten body parts
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