Curriculum

Language skills. Speaking, listening, literature, writing, symbols, environmental print, rhyming, exploration of sounds, beginning identification of letters and sounds.

Number skills. Patterning, graphing, identifying, classifying, sorting, sequencing, counting, understanding of numbers, seriation, matching.

Exploring the natural and social world. Exploring the natural world through observation and discovery, the world around us, plants, air, space, nature, water, sea, animals, families, and friends.

Musical and artistic expression.

Physical abilities. Movement, dance, body rhythmics, and fine and large motor skills.

Social and emotional skills. Independence, separation, working with others as a team, living with others as a community, respect for all people and for oneself.

Jewish studies. Torah, Shabbat, Israel, Jewish observance, prayer, holidays, introduction to Hebrew language.