3-K for All and Pre-K for All Goals

Yearly Exploration Themes:

• Exploration 1: Our Community
• Exploration 2: Our Environment 
• Exploration 3: Our Impact 

• Students will have the opportunity to explore the classroom during the first month of school
• Students will explore the materials as they being to play 
• Students will explore and consider their preferences, interests and needs during the second month of school
• Students will have the opportunity to learn about and connect with other children in the class during the third month. 
• Throughout the exploration, students will learn what it means to be together with friends and family as well as apart

Exploration 1: Our Community

• Students will show growth in their ability to navigate and explore the classroom
• Students will show growth in their understanding of personal characteristics, behaviors, likes and dislikes
• Students will show growth in their understanding of their personal connections with others 

Theme: My Community & Me  (September-November)

Unit Topics:

•  Welcome to Pre-K
• 5 Senses
• All About Us

• Students will be introduced to studying themselves and others. 
• Students will begin seeing themselves as critical thinkers and observers of the environment and people around them
• Students will practice key science skills that they will use in future PreK 
• Students will ask questions and make predictions based on observations in science
• Students will understand the relationship between numbers and quantities to 10
• Students will describe familiar people, places, things and events 
• Students will ask and answer questions