Spiritual

•    Feel secure in God’s love and care
•    Use the terms Jesus and God with understanding
•    Express their love for Jesus
•    Choose to love and obey God
•    Know that Jesus helps them to be kind, loving, to do hard things and to make right choices
•    Be able to ask God and others for forgiveness and also to forgive others
•    Know that prayer is “talking to God” and begin to say their own prayers

Intellectual

•    Recognize and print letters of the Alphabet, 8 Shapes, and Numbers 1 – 20
•    Name and sight read all 8 basic colors
•    Know left from right
•    Know all letter sounds including vowels
•    Play with words: rhyming, repetitions, opposites, groups etc.
•    Match pictures of familiar objects
•    Understand time concepts: yesterday, last week, this morning etc.
•    Early reading skills

Physical

•    Learn to skip
•    Learn to hop on one foot, alternating feet
•    Develop accuracy with throwing and catching
•    Use fingers and hands skillfully
•    Learn simple movements to music: slide step, two step, marching, slide and hop
•    Walk backwards, toe to heel
•    Walk full length of balance beam

Social

•    Learn to play cooperatively, take turns, share ideas etc.
•    Express needs and feelings with words
•    Help clean up cooperatively
•    Use play materials correctly
•    Sit attentively for story and learning time
•    Accept responsibility

Emotional

•    Use words to express feelings and injuries
•    Learn basic emotions: sad, happy, hurt, angry, sleepy etc.
•    Understand that Jesus loves them unconditionally
•    Understand that the teachers love them unconditionally
•    Understand that their parents love them unconditionally
•    Develop strong sense of security in themselves