St John Bosco Interparish School

Auditory Perception

• Experience opportunities for listening to stories and nursery rhymes.
• Learn to listen, follow directions, and discriminate between sounds.

Visual Discrimination

• Be able to recognize colors, shapes, sizes.
• Begin to understand left-right and top-bottom eye movement.
• Begin to discriminate letters and objects and will be able to transfer to paper.

Oral Language Development

• Participate in discussions.
• Use finger plays, rhymes, and songs to learn rote memorization.
• Compose and expand simple stories.
• Speak in clear and complete sentences.

Introduction to Pre-Writing and Writing

• Use free drawing and painting with a variety of tools.
• Use manipulatives such as beads, pegs, puzzles, and Legos.
• Use clay, paste, scissors, pencils, and crayons.
• Repeat basic strokes l/0.
• Print first name and last name using manuscript
• Experience opportunities for tracing, weaving, lacing, etc.

Introduction to Reading

• Enjoy stories for fun.
• Retell stories in sequence.
• Develop an interest in the printed word through labeling and names.
• Begin to recognize some alphabet letters and sounds.

Other Languages

• Experience opportunities for exposure to other languages: Spanish, Sign Language, etc.
• Be able to understand/recite parts of the body, days of the week, colors, numbers (count from 1-10), and simple phrases in Spanish.