What categories should you be teaching in a preschool?

Question

If you are a preschool teacher, then what subjects should you be teaching the 4-year-olds? Things like easy math, and language and stuff. And if you could also tell me a little bit...or like...give me a suggestion on what to teach them in that subject. Like math-shapes.

Answer 1

Teach them easy addition and subtraction. Begin to help them pronounce words, and show them over and over again, so they start learning it.

Answer 2

Story telling - this is good for their listening skills, imagination and concentration.

Writing their names and addresses.

Foods - fruits and vegetables....

Answer 3

they can be learning colors, numbers to 10 or 20, shapes, alphabet;  working with puzzles is good for their future math success;  reading books to them helps involve them in language learning;  talking to them and asking questions they can answer (like about themselves or their family) is good for langauge development too; i'd let them draw and color a lot too - part of langauge learning is writing;  they can try to write stories or just words and their name;

Answer 4

My daughter just graduated preschool. They studied:

math - counting to 20, learning the basics about money (penny is one cent; nickel is five cents)

Literature - reading stories and identifying the rhyming words, abc's

The one thing I did notice is almost everything they learn about is put to music. Children (and adults) seem to learn quicker when something is set to music.

Answer 5

At this age they need to be developing and building concepts.  Everything should be integrated, although you can have "learning centers" for each subject.

In Math concepts such as "more or less" one-to-one correspondence, counting to 30, shapes, and "adding" with manipulative's "I have 2 apples here and 2 apples there, count with me how many apples I have" type of thing.

Calender - days of the week, months of the year, seasons, you can even do patterns.

In Reading/Language letter identification AND their phonetic sound is critical.  (A says "ahhh").  Also that there is a beginning, middle, and end to a story.  Read and have them make predictions about what is next or recall what just happened.

Writing - writing each letter.  Coloring will help with their fine motor skills as well.

Science - observing, making predictions, checking to see if the prediction was right.

S.S. - community helpers, families,

Social - taking turns, working in groups, etc.  A lot of 4s preschools only let 2-3 kids in a center at one time, so they have to make a decision, live with it, and wait their turn if they change their mind and the center they want is full.  

Also - sitting and following directions is a biggie!

there are tons of preshcool curriclum resources out there.

Answer 6

4 years old is a little young for "subjects" per se, but here are some ideas:

Music: having the students learn and sing songs together.  

Reading: reading picture books to the class so they begin to appreciate reading, maybe sounding out words for them and teaching them the alphabet.  

Math: When I was five we played "smaller/bigger" with numbers-- the teacher had a big number line that had every number from 1-100 on it and a way to attach markers to it (in this case it was a clothes pin with an arrow on it).  She'd pick a number (say 50) and ask us questions like "Is 10 smaller or larger?"  For four year olds you could do quantity (eg, Can you pick up 5 marbles?).  You could try shape names and colours as well.

Art: painting, crayons, etc.

Social Interaction:  Give them plenty of time for creative play on on their own.  Have stations (eg building blocks, dress up, sand box, picture books, etc) so they can pick what they want to do.  This will help them learn about sharing and being a part of a peer group.

Dancing:  Kids love getting to move to music, it's also good exercise.

Hope that helps.

Answer 7

The basics of life. Preschool is not for high school grads. Focus on child development skills. Which include social an emotional skills, how to share how to make friends.

The problems with today's society is that we forgot that kids are still kids. Teach them to be kids.

Answer 8

You should be teaching everything - math, science, literacy, social studies in an integrated CORE format.  Children can learn at all ages.

Answer 9

Science could be mixing colors and learning about them, playing with cornstarch and water, using magnets, tring sink or float in a big plastic tub, planting an indoor garden

Math would be learning shapes an identifying them in real life, learning to count to 20, identifying their numbers (do a number a week or something), more/less (simplified)

Social Studies/History find crafts to correspond with days on the calendar (Birthday parties for presidents, with a little explanation about the person, crafts for other holidays and a simple explanation)

Music and Movement is always a plus. you can focus on different genres of music each day or each week, but be sure to repeat so kids can identify it (classical monday, jazz tuesday, etc)

Reading/Language Arts Big Book stories are great for reading to the whole class. Every opportunity for them to listen to a story will instill a love of it. Also, do letter recognition with a letter a week, or day, and reinforce name writing. Maybe introduce some easy phonics ideas, too and find pictures of the things whose names have that weeks sound.

There's more, but I'm out of ideas for now.

Good luck!!

Answer 10

well teach them there abcs maybe some know already but hats ok its good to refresh there memory

try maybe learning there numbers to 20-30 that may be good

try doing fun yet mental working games!

Answer 11

i think you should teach art, bc it is easy to teach and most kids like it.

Answer 12

check out the desired results categories in the source link.

table of contents, pages 4 and 5. it goes over pretty much everything.

Answer 13

my son just finished his 2nd year of per-school.

The way they taught math was using simple objects. Like You have 2 blocks and I have 1 block together how many blocks do we have.Then they count 1,2,3. The child must know how to count 1st.But I'm sure at 4 they all could.

Also reading comes so easy if you teach them all the letters and the sounds the make.

Child's reading is recognizing the letters and being able to make the sounds of each.

After your child knows all the letters and their sounds move on the writhing.Pick a word and ask your pre-schooler to write it.

They will most likely write each letter they hear.It is common for them to leave out vowels.

Then you write the correct way to spell the word. Soon they will grasp the difference between long and short vowels.Why the silent "E" at the end.Stuff like that.

Don't forget to make it fun.