The LEAP Curriculum

• Exhibit confidence in own abilities
• Able to express needs and feeling in an age appropriate way
• Form meaningful relationships with peers
• Show an interest in sharing toys and materials
• Works cooperatively with peers to complete a task
• Respond positively when conflict resolution skills are modeled by a teacher
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• Demonstrate interest in exploring
• Show curiosity and a desire to learn
• Use creativity and imagination

• Participate in sorting, comparing, and describing activities
• Connect many kinds of concrete objects and actions to numbers
• Classify objects by similarities and differences
• Begin to recognize a sequence of events (beginning, middle, end)
• Use concrete objects to solve simple math problems (addition & subtraction) using comparative language (more than, less than, equal to)

• Prediction about changes in materials or objects based on past experiences
• Manipulate a variety of familiar and unfamiliar objects to observe, describe, and compare their properties using appropriate language
• Use their sense of sight, hearing, touch, smell and taste to explore their environment using sensory vocabulary
• Experiment with the concept of balance
• Explore and identify simple machines through play

• Assume a pretend role
• Pretend with props and objects
• Interact with other children in imaginative play

Verbal

• Generate questions and gathers information to answer their questions in various ways
• Makes up stories
• Engage actively in read-aloud activities 

Writing

• Use writing tools for self-expression
• Begin to recognize own name
• Become aware of print and symbols in the classroom environment
• Listen to, recite, sing, and dramatize a variety of age-appropriate literature
• Develop familiarity with the forms of alphabet letters, print, and letter forms
• Use own words or illustrations to describe experiences, tell imaginative stories, or communicate information
• Makes increasingly representational drawings
• Uses emergent writing skills for many purposes

Reading

• Enjoy listening to stories and looking at books
• Able to listen to a story and respond to questions about it
• Demonstrate the ability to use a book (Director, page-turning)

• Able to participate in small group experiences (games, table activities, freeplay)Able to participate in large group experiences (circle, specialists, story time)

• Demonstrates increasing gross motor control and coordination
• Demonstrates increased balance and agility
• Uses small muscles for self-help skills such as pouring and zipping
• Uses classroom materials, such as manipulatives and toys to develop hand grasp and flexibility, finger dexterity

• Uses creativity and imagination
• Express themselves freely through movements
• Play instruments using different beats, tempos, dynamics and interpretation
• Explore variety of materials of media to create two- and three-dimensional artwork
• Uses creativity and imagination to explore Theatre Arts, Movement & Dance, Music

• To exhibit a positive attitude
• To demonstrate cooperation and prosocial behavior

• Demonstrates an interest in exploring classroom materials
• Uses multiple strategies and planning skills to accomplish goals
• Shows curiosity and a desire to learn
• Uses creativity and imagination

• Recognizes patterns and is able to repeat them
• Makes comparisons (more/less, large/small)
• Demonstrates appropriate number sense and counting skills

• Record observations and share ideas through representations/drawings
• Compare and contrast natural materials using descriptive language
• Observe and describe predictable life cycles
• Observe and describe natural habits and basic needs of plants and animals
• Demonstrates an ability to predict cause and effect outcome

• Interacts with other children in imaginative play
• Sustains imaginative play

Verbal

• Talks with other children during daily activities
• Participates in group discussions appropriately
• Engage actively in read-aloud activities by asking questions, offering ideas, predicting or retelling
• Makes up stories
• Generate questions and gather information to gains answers in various ways

Reading

• Recognizes letters in own name and most other letters in the alphabet
• Recognizes own name and other sight words
• Identifies rhyming words
• Listen to, recite, sing, and dramatize a variety of age-appropriate literature
•  Develop familiarity with the forms of alphabet letters, awareness of print, and letter forms.
• Use emergent writing skills to make letters in many settings and for many purposes
• Use their own words or illustrations to describe their experiences, tell imaginative stories, or communicate information
• Listen to, identify, and manipulate language sounds to develop auditory discrimination and phonemic awareness.

Writing

• Makes increasingly representational drawings
• Imitates recognizable letters and numbers
• Demonstrates an interest in using writing for a purpose (making signs, sending letters)
• Use emergent writing skills to make letters for many purposes
• Listen to, identify, and manipulate language sounds to develop auditory discrimination and phonemic awareness.
• Writes own name

• Able to follow 2-3 step directions
• To become aware of schedules and routines:
• To demonstrate self-help skills

• Throws and object in an intended direction
• Build upper body strength and stability to gain controlled movements of shoulders
• Strengthens hand grasp and flexibility
• Use hand-eye coordination, visual perception and tracking, and visual motor skills in play activities

• Use dramatic play, costumes and props to pretend to be someone else
• Use props to explore space and movement
• Experiment with the use of texture, shapes and forms, pattern and symmetry in artwork
• Uses creativity and imagination to explore Theatre Arts, Movement & Dance, Music