List of 7 items.

• Language and Literacy Goals

  • Use increasingly longer sentences to communicate ideas, thoughts, and feelings
  • Actively participate in maagal (circle time) class discussions
  • Listens and understands directions (2 step, 3 step)
  • Listens with interest and understanding to a wide variety of age-appropriate literature
  • Exhibits an interest in reading books, stories, poems
  • Uses language to retell stories and experiences to both describe and ask questions
  • Use different forms of writing to express ideas (drawing, letters)
  • Recognize one's own name and friends’ names
  • Recognize letters – begin matching sounds to letters
  • Develop phonemic awareness, recognizing and creating rhymes, finding words that begin with a given sound, and identifying sounds in words
  • Arrange stories and events into beginning, middle, and end order
  • Generate questions to gather information
  • Speak on topic
  • Begin to write one's own name

• Number Sense Goals

  • Identify and say the names of numbers 1 - 10
  • 1 to 1 correspondence, numbers to quantity 1-10
  • Use positional and ordinal numbers in everyday activities (first, second, third vs. one, two, three)
  • Use concrete objects to solve simple addition and subtraction problems
  • Become familiar with language related to calendar
  • Become familiar with U.S. coins
  • Explore and describe objects by attributes
  • Recognize, reproduce, extend, create, and compare repeating patterns
  • Explore and identify space, direction, size, and position of objects, or places
  • Estimate and measure

• Social Emotional Goals

  • Follow routines and manage transitions
  • Negotiate with peers to resolve conflicts and share feelings
  • Demonstrate the ability to take turns/share
  • Displays self-confidence
  • Uses classroom materials carefully
  • Participates in most activities
  • Interacts with one or more children during active times
  • Shows empathy and caring for others
  • Shows eagerness to learn
  • Sits during circle time
  • Waits for his or her turn in conversations
  • Uses words to solve conflicts
  • Seeks help when needed
  • Completes tasks, is curious, focuses on a task for a period of time, is an active learner

• Self-Help Goals

  • Uses bathroom independently
  • Understands and follows classroom rules
  • Eats independently and uses utensils appropriately
  • Hangs coat on hook
  • Uses words to ask for help when needed
  • Dresses self, zips coat with help working towards independence
  • Can find work/activities in the classroom independently

• Jewish Traditions

  • Tefillah (prayers)
  • Blessings on food/blessings after food
  • Tzedakah (charity)
  • Chaggim (holidays)
  • Shabbat Celebrations
  • Torah Stories/Weekly Parasha
  • Mitzvot

• Jewish Values

  • Mitzvot
  • Kindness and empathy (chessed)
  • Respect

• Hebrew Language

  • Hebrew language incorporated into classroom activities: calendar, weather, songs, and story books
  • Native Israeli speaker in the classroom
  • Gain comfort with conversational Hebrew