Zion Christian Preschool offers education that is an extension of the Zion Christian School mission of Learning & Living for the Glory of God. Preschool provides a warm and loving environment through which a child becomes familiar and at ease in a classroom setting. The student is encouraged to interact with his or her environment and with other covenant children under the loving direction and instruction of (an) authority figure(s) delegated to this task by his or her parents. |
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Below are goals and objectives for students in the Zion Christian Preschool: |
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SPIRITUAL DEVELOPMENT
- Shows respect and reverence for God and His Word
- Shows respect for authority
- Responds to correction with prompt and cheerful obedience
- Listens attentively to Bible stories
- Memorizes Scripture verses
- Participates in singing
- Is kind to classmates
SOCIAL/EMOTIONAL DEVELOPMENT
- Shows ability to adjust to new situations
- Demonstrates appropriate trust in adults
- Recognizes own feelings and manages them appropriately
- Stands up for rights
- Demonstrates self-direction and independence
- Takes responsibility for won well-being
- Respects and cares for classroom environment and materials
- Follows classroom routines
- Follows classroom rules
- Plays well with other children
- Recognizes the feelings of others and responds appropriately
- Shares and respects the rights of others
- Uses thinking skills to resolve conflicts
PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT
- Demonstrates basic locomotor skills (running, jumping, hopping, galloping)
- Shows balance while moving
- Climbs up and down
- Demonstrates throwing, kicking, and catching skills
- Controls small muscles in hands
- Coordinates eye-hand movements
- Uses tools for writing and drawing
COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT
- Observes objects and events with curiosity
- Approaches problems flexibly
- Shows persistence in approaching tasks
- Explores cause and effect
- Applies knowledge or experience to a new context
- Classifies objects
- Compares/measures
- Recognizes patterns and can repeat them
- Shows awareness of time concepts and sequence
- Uses one-to-one correspondence
- Uses numbers and counting
- Takes on pretend roles an situations
- Makes believe with objects
- Makes an interprets representations
LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT
- Hears and discriminates the sounds of language
- Expresses self using words and expanded sentences
- Understands and follows oral directions
- Answers questions
- Actively participates in conversations
- Enjoys and values reading
- Demonstrates understanding of print concepts
- Demonstrates knowledge of the alphabet
- Uses emerging reading skills to make meaning from print
- Comprehends and interprets meaning form books and other texts
- Understands the purpose of writing
- Writes letters