Holy Trinity Catholic Preschool

Preschool for 3 and 4 Year Olds

 

 

Preschool 3 Year Old Program:  Tuesday and Thursday Mornings (8:05-10:40)

Preschool 4 Year Old Program:  Monday, Wednesday and Friday Mornings (8:05-11:50)

Preschool 4 Year Old Program: Monday through Friday Afternoons (12:45-3:15)

 

Daily Preschool Objectives:

  • Awareness of God's world around us at home, school and church
  • Learn to share and cooperate with peers and adults in school
  • Follow rules and routines
  • Develop listening skills and the ability to follow 1-2-3 step directions
  • Initiating, staying on task and completion of activities
  • Experience in math, reading, writing and language processes
  • Large and small motor activities

Center Objectives

Manipulative, Math, Science

         

Writing
  • Eye/hand coordination
  • Patterning
  • Sorting
  • Classifying
  • Ordering
  • Seriating
  • Beginning number concepts
  • Problem solving
  • Estimating, measuring
  • Visual/spatial discrimination

 
  • Eye/hand coordination
  • Ability to communicate ideas and feelings through drawing and writing
  • Exploration of the writing process:
  •     Spoken word in print
  •     Illustrating/dictation
  •     Left to right
  •     Recognition of letters
  •     Safe words
  •     Sight words
  • Exploration of writing utensils and materials

Art

         

Block
  • Eye/hand coordination
  • Exploration of art materials
  • Creativity and imagination
  • Use of art to express personality/relationships to symbols
  • Ability to communicate ideas/feelings to others through drawing and other art forms
  • Ability to name artwork

 
  • Role playing/imagination
  • Expressions of ideas and feelings with self and others
  • Cooperation and sharing
  • Verbal interaction
  • Math process-see math center objectives

Reading/Listening

         

Dramatic Play
  • Experience in listening skills-the written word is spoken
  • Appreciation of love of literature
  • Hands on children's literature at appropriate reading level
  • Experience the reading process in literature rich environment

 
  • Role playing/imagination
  • Expression of ideas and feelings with self and others
  • Cooperation and sharing
  • Verbal interaction

Computer Center

  • Acquaintance and awareness of computer components and functions
  • Reinforcement of math concepts and process (math objectives)
  • Reinforcement of reading concepts and processess (reading/writing objectives)
  • Reinforcement of 1-2-3 step directions
  • Small motor development-eye/hand coordination
  • Enrichment of concepts introduced throughout the year

 Click here to visit Alison Cocks' preschool website!

Alison Cocks- Preschool Director , acocks@htschool.org

Susan Harbaugh-Preschool Teacher, sharbaugh@htschool.org