By responding to the children's needs, interests and level of skills, preschool teachers are opening the doors to learning for their students. Through purposeful planning in each domain of development and through a balance of teacher initiated and child initiated activities, St. Mary's preschoolers learn, practice and master essential skills that form the foundations of their lifelong academic journey's. Below are the basic skills which will be taught here at St. Mary's. Explore the math tabs to learn more about the specific activities used to teach these invaluable math skills.
Counting skills
- * To 20
- * Counting on from a number other than 1
* Counting backwards
- Number Concepts
- * Concept of ‘more and less’
- * Numeral recognition
- * Writing numbers
- Number Operations
- * Adding to a number
- * Taking away from a number
- Graphing
- * Using simple picture charts to map the weather and favorite things
- Measurement
- * Comparing lengths
- * How to use a pan balance
- * Using standard and non-standard measurement tools
- Shapes
- * Recognition
- * Drawing shapes
- Position and Spatial Relationships
- * Using prepositional phrases to follow a task “On top of the chair”
- “Under the table”, “Next to the window” etc.
- * Using pattern blocks to visualize how to fill in a puzzle
- Patterns and Sorting
- * Creating simple AB and ABC repeating patterns
- * Completing AB and ABC patterns
- * To 20
- * Counting on from a number other than 1 * Counting backwards
- * Concept of ‘more and less’
- * Numeral recognition
- * Writing numbers
- * Adding to a number
- * Taking away from a number
- * Using simple picture charts to map the weather and favorite things
- * Comparing lengths
- * How to use a pan balance
- * Using standard and non-standard measurement tools
- * Drawing shapes
- * Using prepositional phrases to follow a task “On top of the chair”
- “Under the table”, “Next to the window” etc.
- * Using pattern blocks to visualize how to fill in a puzzle
- * Creating simple AB and ABC repeating patterns
- * Completing AB and ABC patterns