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SOUTH SHORE SCHOOL

High/Scope Pre-K and Kindergarten

• The High/Scope curriculum model is one based in research that gives teachers the framework in which to provide valuable active learning experiences while promoting investigation, decision-making, cooperation, persistence, and problem solving.  Within this framework are 58 Key Experiences that define intellectual, social, and physical experiences essential to children’s development up through kindergarten.  Teachers use these Key Experiences along with district standards and knowledge of child development to plan ways to support and extend learning.  As students move from Pre K to K student learning and teaching of the Key Experiences becomes more in depth and complex.  Even within the same classroom as students work at different levels, teachers support them using the Key Experiences.

   

• The Key Experiences are as follows:

Creative Representation:

• Recognizing objects by sight, sound, touch, taste, and smell

• Imitating actions and sounds

• Relating models, pictures, and photographs to real places and things

• Pretending and role playing

• Making models out of clay, blocks, and other materials

• Drawing and painting

Language and Literacy:

• Talking with others about personally meaningful experiences

• Describing objects, events, and relations

• Having fun with language : drawing, scribbling, letter-like forms, invented spelling, conventional forms

• Reading in various ways: reading storybooks, signs and symbols, one's own writing

• Dictating stories

Initiative and Social Relations:

• Making and expressing choices, plans, and decisions

• Solving problems encountered in play

• Taking care of one's own needs

• Expressing feelings in words

• Participating in group routines

• Being sensitive to the feelings, interests, and needs of others

• Building relationships with children and adults

• Creating and experiencing collaborative play

• Dealing with social conflict

Movement:

• Moving in nonlocomotor ways (anchored movement: bending, twisting, rocking, swinging one's arms)

• Moving in locomotor ways (nonanchored movement: running, jumping, hopping, skipping, marching, climbing)

• Moving with objects

• Expressing creativity in movement

• Acting upon movement directions

• Feeling and expressing steady beat

• Moving in sequences to a common beat

Music:

• Moving to music

• Exploring and identifying sound

• Exploring one's singing voice

• Developing melody

• Singing somgs

• Playing simple musical instruments

Classification:

• Exploring and describing similarities, differences, and the attributes of things

• Distinguishing and describing shapes

• Sorting and matching

• Using and describing something in several ways

• Holding more than one attribute in mind at a time

• Distinguishing between "some" and "all"

• Describing characteristics something does not posses or what class it does not belong to

Seriation:

• Comparing attributes (longer/shorter, bigger/smaller)

• Arranging several things one after another in a series or pattern and describing the relationships (big/bigger/biggest, red/blue/red/blue)

• Fitting one ordered set of objects to another through trial and error (small cup&emdash;small saucer/mediaum cup&emdash;medium saucer/big cup&emdash;big saucer)

Number:

• Comparing the numbers of things in two sets to determine "more," "fewer," "same number,"

• Arranging two sets of objects in one-to-one correspondence

• Counting objects

Space:

• Filling and emptying

• Fitting things together and taking them apart

• Changing the shape and arrangement of objects (wrapping, twisting, stretching, stacking, enclosing)

• Observing people, places, and things from different spatial viewpoints

• Experiencing and describing positions, directions, and distances in the play space, building, and neighborhood

• Interpreting spatial relations in drawings, pictures, and photographs

Time:

• Starting and stopping an action on signal

• Experiencing and describing rates of movement

• Experiencing and comparing time intervals

• Anticipating, remembering, and describing sequences of events

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