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My daughter is about to turn  4 and I have questions as to what curriculum she should be in, her school has not presented me with one and I’m confused as to the instructional activities she does in the classroom environment, I fear they deal too much with behavior issues ad not with anything academic in nature.
Should I be concerned or is this lack of curriculum standard for early intervention.

We worked on letters, numbers, colors, animals, emotions~actions, foods, people/occupations,clothes, household items, dress up, pretend themes.. places, holidays, days of the week, clock/timer~making schedules with pics..we went to as many places we could to generalize like grocery store, pet store, zoo, library..ect...simple games for teaching rules like candyland or twister..real easy:) Get a magnadoodle to help her practice your daughter practice lines and circles and figure 8's..these really help when learning to write..practice shapes too:)

These should keep you busy for awhile:)

thanks for the help, you seem to be  a wealth of knowledge.

Mason's EI was like this too...mostly behavior and social...most of the academic things they did like learning there names or art projects, Mason would never participate in and his teacher told me they don't force that before kindergarten...I was sort of disappointed that my son had 2 1/2 years of school before kindergarten and didn't know his ABC's or how to write his name...he was very inconsistent in pretty much everything except numbers...counting and numbers was the thing that he just seemed to know without teaching.

I dug out my son's 4 year-old Kindergarten Assessment.  The following things were assessed for each student:  Colors, Shapes, Rote Counts To..., Counts Objects to 10 (one-to-one correspondence), Identifies Numerals, Recognizes Name, Sings Alphabet, Reconizes Letters  (upper case & lower case), Holds Scissors Correctly, Holds Pencil Correctly, and Writes Name.

Other things they worked on were calender skills, including days of the week, months of the year, and seasons.  They worked on "Stages of Drawing."  The children did self-portraits at different points of the year.  The stages are scribbles, draws a face, adds arms and legs, adds body with arms and legs, adds details like hair, ears and hands.  They also worked on "Stages of Writing"(scribbles, uses letters like signs, uses letter to represent words, copies words spontaneously, invents spelling of words using phonetic clues, writes with standard spelling)  and Concepts of Print (picture correlates with writing/dictation; left to write progression of scribbles/letters/words). 

Edited to add:  Even though these things were assessed and worked on, they were not necessarily mastered.  It did let parents know how their child was doing and how prepared they were for Kindergarten academics.

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