St. Timothy’s School Competencies for Entering Pre-Kindergarten
2019-2020
Children entering Pre-Kindergarten at STS usually have:
An ability to separate from parents and invest in school with support from parents and teachers. Some difficulty with separation is common and the four year old may need extra support at the beginning of the year. Separation issues are revisited throughout the PK school years.
A mastery of toilet training.
A beginning ability to take care of possessions with help.
An increasing interest in and ability to be part of a group for a period of time.
An ability to maintain socially appropriate behavior most of the time, particularly the ability to inhibit aggressive impulses toward other people.
An ability to follow directions. Children ready for PK are willing to take direction from adults, rather than meeting adult direction with oppositional behavior.
A developing ability to represent ideas and experiences in a variety of symbolic ways such as language, play, music, drawing, painting, and story drama.
A developing ability to get interested in materials and other people.
An ability to communicate in English
While in Pre-Kindergarten children will work on:
The ability to separate from parents, to trust adults, to feel comfortable and safe in school.
The ability to care for own possessions and classroom materials.
The ability to be aware of others, care about others, include others in play, help others, consider rights of others, and to experience and appreciate belonging to a group. Children are developing an appreciation for everyone's uniqueness.
The ability to pay attention to group discussion, listen to ideas of others and respond to them in the whole classroom group and small groups.
The ability to use words to express ideas and feelings, to solve conflicts by talking and to tolerate reasonable frustration.
The ability to understand and adapt to routines and rules of classroom.
The ability to represent ideas and experiences in a variety of symbolic ways, including language, play, music, art, drawing, and story drama.
The ability to initiate play, have confidence to try out ideas, and stay with a task.
Developing small and large motor skills
Acquiring beginning knowledge of numbers (see Math Curriculum) and print awareness (see Language Arts Curriculum).
2019-2020
Children entering Pre-Kindergarten at STS usually have:
An ability to separate from parents and invest in school with support from parents and teachers. Some difficulty with separation is common and the four year old may need extra support at the beginning of the year. Separation issues are revisited throughout the PK school years.
A mastery of toilet training.
A beginning ability to take care of possessions with help.
An increasing interest in and ability to be part of a group for a period of time.
An ability to maintain socially appropriate behavior most of the time, particularly the ability to inhibit aggressive impulses toward other people.
An ability to follow directions. Children ready for PK are willing to take direction from adults, rather than meeting adult direction with oppositional behavior.
A developing ability to represent ideas and experiences in a variety of symbolic ways such as language, play, music, drawing, painting, and story drama.
A developing ability to get interested in materials and other people.
An ability to communicate in English
While in Pre-Kindergarten children will work on:
The ability to separate from parents, to trust adults, to feel comfortable and safe in school.
The ability to care for own possessions and classroom materials.
The ability to be aware of others, care about others, include others in play, help others, consider rights of others, and to experience and appreciate belonging to a group. Children are developing an appreciation for everyone's uniqueness.
The ability to pay attention to group discussion, listen to ideas of others and respond to them in the whole classroom group and small groups.
The ability to use words to express ideas and feelings, to solve conflicts by talking and to tolerate reasonable frustration.
The ability to understand and adapt to routines and rules of classroom.
The ability to represent ideas and experiences in a variety of symbolic ways, including language, play, music, art, drawing, and story drama.
The ability to initiate play, have confidence to try out ideas, and stay with a task.
Developing small and large motor skills
Acquiring beginning knowledge of numbers (see Math Curriculum) and print awareness (see Language Arts Curriculum).