CJEC uses the NJ Pre-K standards to prepare our children for Kindergarten. Children 4 -5 years old are engaging in complex play scenarios, beginning to solve conflict independently, using the Scientific Method, and building their foundation for reading and mathematics.
- Actively engages in problem-solving with materials
- Demonstrates persistence
- Combines a sequence of large motor skills with and without use of equipment
- Demonstrates coordination and control of large muscles
- Demonstrates eye-hand coordination and dexterity needed to manipulate objects
- Demonstrates personal care and hygiene skills
- Demonstrates awareness and understanding of healthy habits
- Demonstrates awareness and understanding of safety rules
- Recognizes self as a unique individual having his/her own abilities, characteristics, feelings, and interests
- Regulates his/her responses to needs, feelings, and events
- Develops positive relationships with adults and peers
- Demonstrates pro-social problem-solving skills in social interactions
- Demonstrates growing receptive and expressive language
- Demonstrates understanding of the organization and basic features of print
- Demonstrates an emerging understanding of spoken words, syllables, and phonemes
- Demonstrates emergent phonics and word analysis skills
- Writes capital and lowercase letters and numbers 1-20
- Demonstrate use of descriptive words with or without prompting or support
- Knows number names and count sequence
- Represents the number of objects with a written numeral 1-10
- Counts to tell the number of objects
- Demonstrates the concept of more and less
- Correctly identifies and describes shapes
- Create and build shapes from components
- predicts, experiments, collects, and analyzes data
- Demonstrates knowledge of science concepts: Earth and space; living things; physical properties
- Demonstrates knowledge of Social Studies Concepts: geography; sense of self, community, family, and diverse cultures; relationships between people, places, and regions.
- History: understanding of how things change over time; civics, citizenship, and government
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