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CJEC uses the NJ Pre-K standards to prepare our children for Kindergarten. Children 4 -5 years old are engaging in complex play scenarios, beginning to solve conflict independently, using the Scientific Method, and building their foundation for reading and mathematics.

MILESTONES,GOALS & OBJECTIVES
  • Actively engages in problem-solving with materials
  • Demonstrates persistence
  • Combines a sequence of large motor skills with and without use of equipment
  • Demonstrates coordination and control of large muscles
  • Demonstrates eye-hand coordination and dexterity needed to manipulate objects
  • Demonstrates personal care and hygiene skills
  • Demonstrates awareness and understanding of healthy habits
  • Demonstrates awareness and understanding of safety rules
  • Recognizes self as a unique individual having his/her own abilities, characteristics, feelings, and interests
  • Regulates his/her responses to needs, feelings, and events
  • Develops positive relationships with adults and peers
  • Demonstrates pro-social problem-solving skills in social interactions
  • Demonstrates growing receptive and expressive language
  • Demonstrates understanding of the organization and basic features of print
  • Demonstrates an emerging understanding of spoken words, syllables, and phonemes
  • Demonstrates emergent phonics and word analysis skills
  • Writes capital and lowercase letters and numbers 1-20
  • Demonstrate use of descriptive words with or without prompting or support
  • Knows number names and count sequence
  • Represents the number of objects with a written numeral 1-10
  • Counts to tell the number of objects
  • Demonstrates the concept of more and less
  • Correctly identifies and describes shapes
  • Create and build shapes from components
  • predicts, experiments, collects, and analyzes data
  • Demonstrates knowledge of science concepts: Earth and space; living things; physical properties
  • Demonstrates knowledge of Social Studies Concepts: geography; sense of self, community, family, and diverse cultures; relationships between people, places, and regions.
  • History: understanding of how things change over time; civics, citizenship, and government