Thursday, October 8, 2009

Daily Goals

I set this up to have accountability for what I do everyday with Elijah.

By the time Elijah starts preschool, I want to reach these goals.

Primary Goals:
Increased attention span
The ability to "work" for a 3 hour work period
Successfully completing the cycle each time (puts items back the way they were found on the shelf)
Love of learning
A working development of fine motor skills
Independent with potty skills

Along the way, I'd love to accomplish some of these goals as well...

Secondary Goals:

Practical Life skills
-saying please and thank you
-playing gently and appropriately with friends
-waiting turns
-watching me do an activity without taking over (when asked to do so)
-expressing emotions in a healthy manner
-hanging up coat
-putting on own coat
-washing hands
-blowing nose
-setting the table
-clearing table
-carrying a plate full of food
-walking on the line
-hopping on two feet
-hopping on one foot
-walking heel to toe (on the line)
-walking on a balance beam
-walking backwards
-pedaling a tricycle
-walking on the line with object in hand
-somersaulting
-kicking a ball
-wiping up spills
-mopping floor
-watering plants
-washing mirror
-washing table
-sweeping floor
-using crumb brush
-cooking: following basic instructions
-measuring liquids
-measuring dry ingredients
-spreading ingredients on rice cakes
-clapping rhythms
-silence game
-improved scissors skills
-gluing
-squeezing the water from a sponge
-dry pouring
-liquid pouring
-using crayons
-using markers
-opening and closing wide variety of jars, boxes, etc.
-operating a clothes pin
-using tongs
-using a dropper
-spooning
-matching and screwing nuts and bolts
-small peg puzzles
-playing with play doh
-pouring liquids with funnel

Sensorial Experiences
-crossing the midline (rings on pegs)
-visual discrimination of dimension (cylinder blocks)
-deeper understanding of dimension (knobless cylinders)
-ability to discriminate color in an organized manner (color box 1 and 2)
-understanding large and small, and the positives, comparatives, and superlatives (pink tower)
-understanding long and short, and the positives, comparatives, and superlatives (red rods)
-understanding thick and thin, and the positives, comparatives, and superlatives (brown stair)
-understanding hot and cold, and the positives, comparatives, and superlatives (through real life activities)
-matching textures (fabric basket)
-object permanence (ball box and discs in slot)
-rough and smooth, and the positives, comparatives, and superlatives (sensitizing fingertips, touch boards, touch tablets)
-loud and soft, and the positives, comparatives, and superlatives (sound cylinders)
-more acute discrimination of sound (sound cylinders)
-discrimination of pitch (online montessori bells)
-refinement of olfactory sense (smelling cylinders)
-refinement of gustatory sense (tasting bottles)
-sweet, salty, bitter, and sour (tasting bottles)
-soft and hard, and the positives, comparatives, and superlatives (with objects to be determined...possibly homemade, or just relying on everyday experiences)

Language
-naming objects
-increased vocabulary (reading, experiencing, matching object to object, then object to picture, then picture to picture)
-knows full name
-knows primary and secondary colors (color boxes)
-knows shapes (puzzles)
-knows some or all letter sounds (sandpaper letters, letter puzzle)

Mathematics
-counting 1 to 10 (counting objects, discs in slot)
-visual recognition of number symbols (magnetic numbers, number puzzle)
-experience quantities of numbers (number rods)
-1:1 correspondence (spindle boxes)
-concept of zero (jumping game)
-numbers as quantities (cards and counters)
-even and odd (number rods, cards and counters)




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