Hey! This is our four-year-old class. Every day we have lots of fun at school while we learn and help our bodies, faith, and minds grow. Dancing and playing give our bodies the exercise we need. We hear about Jesus and His amazing love through Bible stories, singing, and music. We continue to build upon what we learned in the 3-year-old class by strengthening our fine motor skills, large motor skills, social and emotional skills, all while establishing a solid academic foundation. So come and see us sometime! We would love to have you become a part of our family!
What 4-year-olds should know before they go to Kindergarten
Spiritual Development
- Understands the central teachings of the Bible
- Can say a short, memorized prayer
- Respects others as God’s children
- Enjoys listening to Bible lessons
- Retells/recalls details from Bible lessons
- Demonstrates understanding of love and forgiveness, and is able to apply in conflict resolution
- Is able to memorize simple songs
- Loves to sing ans share bible songs with others
- Learns the Gospel in a nut shell and is able to share with others
- Is able to learn short bible passages and repeat
- Has a hunger to learn more of God’s Word
- Uses God’s “Golden Rules” in every day play with others
Physical Development
- Stretch arms high over head
- Twist at the waist
- Bend over and touch toes
- Walking downstairs with out holding onlto anything
- Walking upstairs with out holding onto anything
- Running between two points
- Balance – walking, running on a balance beam or tape
- Catching and throwing a ball (4ft distance)
- Catching and throwing a bean bag (6 ft distance)
- Jumping over a rope 10 inches off the floor
- Jumping from starting line (alternate feet and together)
- Hopping for distance of 10 feet (both, right then left legs)
- Crawling under a chair
- Sommersault
- Galloping
- Skipping
- Throwing (underhanded, right, left, over handed)
- Kick a ball (standing still, running)
- Hit a ball with a bat
- Being able to sing while performing a sequence of movements to the beat
- Be able to do an action while saing the body part at the same time (head, head/pat, pat)
- Can pedal a tricycle
- Climb up and down the play structures with ease
- Enjoying large motor acivities
- Balance standing on one foot and then the other (10 seconds)
- Walk backwards for 5 steps
- Uses scissors with ease and properly
- Is able to trace simple objects
- Strings or threads beads or spools
- Is able to use various writing tools with ease (crayon, marker, pencil, paint brush)
- Uses glue in an appropriate manner
- Handles small manipulatives (legos)
- Can put together a puzzle
- Holds a pencil correctlry
- Knows right from left (most of the time)
- Can clap hands together as a rhythm
- Buttons sclothes with ease
- Builds with blocks
- Draws and colors beyond a scribble
- Zips clothes
- Draws and cuts simple shapes
- Can draw a line from one object to another and stay in the lines
- Can copy simple patterns when drawn out (vertical line, cross, right oblique line and left oblique line, circle, rectangle, triangle, diamond)
- Can draw a person having a head eyes, nose, moth, body, arms, legs, fingers, or toes, clothing and hair)
- Can cut out simple shapes
Social/Emotional Development
- Aware of others feelings
- Exhibits cooperative behavior or attitude
- Is willing to speak in front of a group
- Seeks adult help when needed
- Works and plays well with others
- Participates in clean up
- Willing to share with classmates
- Willing to take turns with classmates
- Takes part in group activities
- Plays independently
- Follows school routine
- Is willing to try to dress him/herself
- Can sit quietly for activities that require it
- Makes choices and plans
- Solves problems with materials
- Initiates play
- Takes care of own personal needs
- Completes tasks independently
- Attempts to solve problems with minimal assistance
- Shown satisfaction in accomplishments
- Relates to adults
- Attempts to resolve interpersonal conflict
- Understands and expresses feelings appropriately
- Follows 3 step directions
- Listens/responds appropriately to requests
- Interacts comfortably with others
- Controls aggressive behavior
- Engages in cooperative play with peers
- changes activities without difficulty
- Accepts responsibility for own actions
- Identifies other children by name
- Be away from parents for 2-3 hours
- Looks forward to going to school
- Takes care of toilet needs independently
- Cares for own belongings
- meets visitors without shyness
Intellectual Development
- Is able to name the basic shapes – circle, square, rectangle, triangle, diamond, heart
- Is able to name the basic colors – red, blue, green, yellow, orange, purple, black, brown, gray, white, pink
- Understands concept of size – small, medium, large, little, big, biggest
- Knows age
- Listens to and understands speech
- Uses complex patterns of speech
- Shows awareness of sounds in words
- Demonstrates knowledge about books
- Names letter names and some sounds
- Interested in letters
- Sits for a story
- Enjoys being read too
- Understands concepts of print
- Can recognize own name
- Retells a simple story
- Interested in writing
- Writes name
- Is able to remember pictures from a page
- Repeats a 6-8 word sentence
- Pretends to read
- Can answer questions about a story
- Sings the alphabet song
- Recognizes some nursery rhymes
- Understands reading from left to right
- Can repeat a sequence of sounds
- Can repeat a sequence of numbers
- Has ease in talking
- Knows basic body parts – hands, eyes, fingers, toes, feet, ears, mouth, hair, chin, elbow, knees, shoulders, head
- Knows and can recognize #’s to 20
- Knows and can recognize letters
- Understands same and opposites
- Understands and can demonstrate likes and differences
- Can understand and do positional cues
- Sorts objects
- Identifies patterns
- Can count one-to-one correspondence and by rote
- Identifies position and direction
- Serration
Creative Development
- Feels and expresses a steady beat
- Enjoys moving to music and singing
- Knows the words of several children’s songs
- Listens to a variety of music
- Uses instruments correctly
- Makes and builds models
- Draws or paints pictures
- Enjoys using a variety of art mediums, colors, or textures