Our 4s need to explore, discover, relate, find, compare, play, dance, sing, and paint.

**Practice using manners and cooperating with
peers and adults
**Demonstrate self-confidence and self-control
**Respond to the feelings of others and choose
actions and words appropriately
**Recognize and accept differences in people
**Participate in group activities
**Demonstrate taking turns and sharing
**Exhibit independence in self-care: dressing/undressing, blowing nose, washing hands, feeding/eating
**Listen to and follow multi-step directions
**Play simple games
**Participate in formal and informal creative
dramatics using puppets, dress up clothes, props, and stage elements
**Develop a positive self-image
**Begin to develop creative expression and appreciation of art, music, and dance

**Speak and express ideas in a social group by asking questions, retelling stories, role playing, and participating in creative play
**Listen to stories and poems and develop a love for books
**Regularly engage in conversations with peers and adults
**Ask and answer questions
**Recognize and write first name
**Begin to hold a crayon/marker/pencil correctly for writing
**Recognize letters and letter sounds
**Begin to use upper case and lower case letters in writing
**Tell full name, age, gender, address, and phone
number
**Participate in simple songs and fingerplays with the group
**Participate in show and tell

**Begin to form an understanding of the natural world through firsthand sensory experiences
**Understand that there are many different kinds of animals and that they behave in differentways
**Begin to understand the growth cycle for plants
**Understand and identify seasons
**Begin to understand the scientific process of hypothesis, experimentation, and conclusion
**Begin to use data sheets to record information
**Begin to develop environmental awareness

**Experience God’s love in a nurturing and accepting classroom environment
**Recognize themselves as God’s creation
**Begin to develop Christian values such as compassion, respect, honesty, and fairness as
modeled and communicated by the teachers
**Relate to the natural world as God’s creation
**Listen to stories about God and Jesus