Pre-Kindergarten

About Our 4-Year-Olds Pre-Kindergarten

At Star Choice Academy, your pre-kindergartener is prepared for the upcoming challenge. In addition to the Next Generation Learning Standards for pre-kindergarten, we offer motivation, a focused curriculum, and guidance to help students advance academically, gain independence, and prepare for kindergarten.

With the help of our curriculum-based instructional model, your children can engage in learning activities where their creativity can flourish in a setting that fosters inquiry and investigation.

Strict health and safety regulations will be observed.

You can relax knowing that your preschooler is in a safe and healthy environment while they’re at our Academy. Based on CDC recommendations, our improved health and cleaning program is intended to reduce coronavirus transmission.

Our curriculum is designed to give your preschooler a well-rounded education while receiving supportive, nurturing care.

Pre-kindergarten Next Generation Learning Standards

• English Language Arts Crosswalk for Pre-K

• Mathematics Crosswalk for Pre-K

• The NYS Social Studies Standard (pages 14-18)

• The NYS Science Standards (page 4-8)

• The NYS Visual Arts Standards

Questions? Answers.

• Able to follow multi-step direction.
• Work well together in small groups and with a friend.
• Can manage bathroom needs independently.
• Enjoys and able to clean up after themselves.
• Understand the concept “same” and “different.”
• Make predictions on what will happen next in a story.
• Able to use scissors and trace letters and shapes with line support.

Plays nicely with other children, while learning patience and kindness towards others.
Negotiate and problem solutions to resolve conflicts with peers.
Shows care, concern, and affection for others without being prompted to do so.
Prefers playing with other children than playing alone.
Enjoys doing new things and expresses likes and dislikes.
Preschoolers becomes more imaginative with their make-believe play, but can sometimes become confused what’s real and what’s not.

Mathematics

Your pre-kindergartener will be learning about different mathematical concepts such as numbers and counting, which teaches the understanding of one-to-one correspondence to objects. Basic addition and subtraction or (take away), they will learn that combining two numbers will make a new number. Geometry (identifying shapes), spatial reasoning (connects math to the physical world), sorting, patterns and math language.

Science

Science helps young children develop essential life skills, including the ability to focus, remain organized, communicate, and form their own thoughts of the world based on their observations. Children are hands on learners and science helps to shape their development, provides many natural opportunities for curiosity, making predictions, asking questions, observe and then to talk about their findings.

Language Arts

Students will develop critical thinking skills through our curriculum-based instruction to foster phonic awareness, reading, and writing success by building foundational language, literacy and content knowledge. Students will learn to be good communicators, capable of controlling language successfully as they navigate an increasingly multifaceted world of rich information.

Social Studies

Social studies is an essential part of the early learning curriculum, since children begin to develop experiences that will shape their attitudes as citizens and build relationships in their school, classroom, home and their community. Children are able to meet and negotiate new friendships, learn to get along with others, share opinions, contribute as a member of a group, decision making, voice opinions, identify and solve problems, negotiate roles and recognize the significances of their decisions and behaviors to others.

Language Arts & Literacy

Focus: Helping your child become a confident communicator.

We make learning fun and engaging with books, poems, songs and stories – helping your child make connections between letters and words, words and sentences.

4-Year-Old Activities

Reading aloud and discussing rhyming words.
Learning animal sounds by playing animal-sound bingo.
Learning weather words like “sunny” and “rainy” in English and Spanish.
Using a pencil to write out the name of a favorite zoo animal and drawing a picture of it.

Learn On®

Learning continues beyond the classroom. Here are some easy projects you can do to extend learning into your home.

Mathematics

Focus: Recognizing relationships among numbers, numerals and quantities.

We help your 4-year-old see how things relate to one another by helping them identify and describe attributes and patterns in objects. They start to understand the concept of addition as putting together or adding to, and subtraction as taking apart or taking away.

4-Year-Old Activities

Playing interactive games on the Smart Table to identify number sequences.
Cutting numbers out of magazines, gluing them on poster paper to make a collage, then asking the children to talk about the numbers they found.
Spinning a spinner and saying the number it stops on, then counting out coins and blocks to create a set of that number.

Learn On®

Learning continues beyond the classroom. Here are some easy projects you can do to extend learning into your home.

Science

Focus: Investigating and learning concepts about living things and the environment.

With their teacher’s encouragement, your child will lead the way in learning about people, animals, plants, the Earth and outer space. Teachers also instruct your 4-year-old how to use the appropriate tools and technology in their investigations.