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CHILD ED 204 October1, 2022

What Your Child Learn in

Preschool
• . To identify and discuss the key
skills areas intended to prepare
students for kindergarten.
• 10 Skills Every Child Needs to Be Ready for
Kindergarten
• Recognize Name. ...
• Name the Letters of the Alphabet. ...
• Determine Hand Dominance. ...
• Know How to Hold and Use Scissors
Correctly. ...
• Name and Recognize Colors. ...
• Count and Recognize Numbers to 10. ...
• Make Rhymes. ...
• Play and Share with Peers.
• What are skills examples for kids?
• Sharing.
• Cooperating.
• Listening.
• Following Directions.
• Respecting Personal Space.
• Making Eye Contact.
• Using Manners.
• What are the competencies in kindergarten?
• They are all rated as 'very satisfactory' which are
ranked according to highest level of competence
learned and developed by the children:
•  1) Receptive Language;
• 2) Expressive Language;
• 3) Self- Management;
• 4) Early Literacy;
• 5) Early Math;
• 6) Perceptual and Motor; and
• 7) Social and Emotional.
• What skills do you demonstrate at end of
kindergarten?
• By the end of kindergarten, children should
be familiar with the forms and format of books
and other print resources and be able to
recognize and write most of the alphabet; they
should also have some basic phonemic
awareness, that is, understanding of the
segmentability of spoken words into smaller
units.
• Development. Your child continues
to develop a wide range of skills in
kindergarten, including 
• physical,
• social,
• emotional,
• language and literacy, and
• thinking (cognitive) skills.
• 5 Essential Skills for an Early Childhood
Educator
• Patience. Children go through different stages
of learning. ...
• Communication. Young children aren't always
good at expressing themselves or effectively
communicating—that's why ECE teachers
need to be excellent communicators. ...
• Creativity. ...
• Organization. ...
• Enthusiasm.
• There are 5 key areas of development:
• gross motor skills, for example crawling,
jumping or running.
• fine motor skills, such as writing and drawing.
• speech and language.
• cognitive and intellectual, such as counting or
identifying shapes.
• social and emotional skills, such as playing with
other children.
• What skills does a kindergarten teacher need?
• Kindergarten Teacher skills and qualifications

Advanced teaching and leadership skills. Strong

knowledge of subjects to teach students, such as
math and science. Excellent communication skills
for interacting with children, co-workers and
parents or guardians. Creative and artistic
abilities.
• How do kindergarteners develop cognitive skills?
• Play ideas for encouraging preschooler cognitive
development

Read books and tell jokes and riddles.

Encourage stacking and building games or play
with cardboard boxes. Do simple jigsaw puzzles
and memory games. Play games that combine
moving and singing – for example, 'If you're
happy and you know it'.
• What is writing skills in
kindergarten?
• Kindergartners will be able
to: Write all of the letters of the
alphabet in both upper and
lowercase. Correctly write first and
last name. Print correct letter
symbols to correspond with
pictures.
• How to Teach Sight Words
• Start with a Small List of Words Make it
Motivating Don't Introduce Visually Similar
Words Together.
• Practice Makes Perfect
• Use Books for Carry Over
• Pair Reading and Writing with Sight Words.
• Use Sensory Items For Writing Sight WordsUse
Visual Cues (Word Wall)
• The Kindergarten Sight Words are:

all, am, are, at, ate, be, black, brown,

but, came, did, do, eat, four, get, good,
have, he, into, like, must, new, no,
now, on, our, out, please, pretty, ran,
ride, saw, say, she, so, soon, that, there,
they, this, too, under, want, was, well,
went, what, white, who, will, with, yes.
• What are the 4 key areas of development in
early childhood education?
• Four major areas
• Motor development. Motor development
includes gross and fine motor skills. ...
• Cognitive development. From birth, babies are
already developing cognitive abilities such as
thinking, memory, attention, reasoning, and
planning. ...
• Emotional development. ...
• Social development.
• What is the most important thing to learn
in kindergarten?
• Language and literacy.

This develops communication through

reading, writing, talking and listening.
Literacy is a major focus in early learning,
and particularly in kindergarten, because
these skills are so critical. Students learn to
read so they can read to learn in later
grades.
 V. Con’t.
• What is literacy skills for preschoolers?
• Preschoolers should use language to express
their wants, needs, thoughts, ideas and
feelings using adequate details and
reasoning. They can problem-solve and predict
what will happen during daily routines. Early
literacy is comprised of print concepts,
phonological awareness as well as letter and
word recognition.
• Is reading taught in kindergarten?
• As part of that foundation, kindergartners will be
working on the five pillars of kindergarten
reading:
• understanding the relationship between sounds
and words (phonetics),
• reading fluently,
• understanding what they read,
• expanding vocabulary, and building knowledge.
• What writing skills should a 4 year old have?
• Preschoolers (ages 3–4 years)
• Draw wavy lines across the page that look like
lines of text from a book.
• Make distinct marks that look like letters and
that are separated from each other.
• Write some actual letters, especially the letters
in their name.
• May write their name.
ACTIVITY # 4 Oct. 1, 2022
• Research on the following:
• 1. Kindergarten Sight Words
• 2. Kindergarten Readiness Checklist

• Submission date: Oct. 7, 2022

• Oct. 8, 2022 – quiz using the moodle
• No lecture on this day.
• Oct. 15, 2022- MIDTERM EXAM