EDIT MAIN
Spiritual Domain
Developing a respect for God, self, others, and all God created:
- Nurture an awareness of God as our loving Father
- Cultivate a love of God’s gifts
- Encourage speaking and listening to God with reverence
- Explore God’s family: Jesus, Mary and Joseph
- Promote positive feelings about honesty and respect
Social Domain
Interacting with adults and with other Children:
- Engage in independent and group activities
- Take turns, share and cooperate with others, and share classroom materials
- Express needs, concerns, and fears, in an acceptable manner
- Interact with others by role playing and dramatic play
- Express positive feelings about self
Cognitive Domain
Acquiring, sorting, and retrieving information:
- Make discoveries
- Discover attributes of objects, how things work
- Make comparisons (more/less, larger/smaller, taller/shorter)
- Develop simple and complex sorting skills
- Put objects, events, actions in all kinds of relationships
- Explore number properties
- Experiment and identify geometric shapes
- Describe experiences in time (first, last, before, after)
- Generate ideas and make predictions
- Use physical principles (weight, balance, stability)
Language Domain
Developing communication skills through listening, speaking, and reading:
- Use language to communicate
- Listen for turn-taking cues in conversation
- Attend to and follow oral directions
- Use language to solve problems and negotiate
- Show an interest in various forms of literature
- Listen attentively to stories, songs and poetry
- Be aware of the connection between text and illustrations
- Be aware of the sequence of the story (beginning, middle, end)
- Perform physical sequence of moving from left to right
- Assign labels to letter symbols
- Recognize own name
- Grasp and manipulate writing implements
Physical Domain
Developing large and small muscle control:
- Perform large muscle activities such as balancing, hopping, galloping
- Perform manipulative skills such as throwing, catching, kicking
- Perform small muscle activities such as snapping, buckling, buttoning
- Manipulate materials for eye-hand coordination
- Use visual discrimination skills for matching and grouping objects
- Coordinate hands and eyes through visual guiding to copy and trace
- Manipulate objects to use as tools