Kum Anaokulu /Speak’n Play (Level3)

•    Participate in reciprocal conversations 
•    Develop listening and auditory memory 
•    Recall and follow two- or three-step directions 
•    Recognize common phonemes (word sounds) 
•    Discriminate between letter sounds
We learned it by;
•    Engaging in meaningful conversations with teachers and peers about topics of interest
•    Answering open-ended questions, such as “What do you think?”  
•    Listening to and joining in on songs, rhymes, and stories  
•    Participating in projects that have multiple steps 
•    Playing language games such as sound bingo 
•    Playing rhyming games that challenge auditory skills

•    Expand our spoken vocabulary 
•    Describe events, needs, and feelings 
•    Distinguish between past, present, and future tenses 
•    Ask detailed questions
We learned it by;
•    Hearing new words introduced through conversations 
•    Sharing stories about ourselves 
•    Retelling simple events in sequence 
•    Listening to books read aloud that have rich and diverse language 
•    Asking and answering questions about a story

•    Appreciate and enjoy high-quality children’s books 
•    Understand that printed words and symbols have meaning  
•    Recall and retell a simple story ƒ Use pictures and visual cues to “read” a story 
•    Identify letters and a few sight words
We learned it by;
•    Hearing our favorite stories repeated frequently 
•    Identifying classroom signs and labels  
•    Making our own books and “reading” them aloud to an adult or peer 
•    Playing letter games such as “letter match” 
•    Looking at stories with common sight words

•    Gather two or more similar objects from a variety  of items 
•    Sort objects by one or more characteristics 
•    Create and follow simple patterns
We learned it by;
•    Cleaning up by category, such as “Let’s put all the large, blue items away first” 
•    Sorting items, such as seashells or blocks, by size 
•    Stringing beads in a pattern of color or shape 

•    Understand past, present, and future 
•    Use spatial concept vocabulary in daily speech such as “under”/”over,” “inside”/”outside,” “on”/”off,” “up”/”down,” “in”/”out,” and “around”/”above”
We learned it by;
•    Discussing past, present, and future events, such as “Yesterday it was raining. Today it is sunny. What do you think it will be like tomorrow?” 
•    Using a calendar 
•    Using time words in daily conversation, such as “You can play with that after Jordan.” 
•    Following clues to find hidden objects, such as “It’s near the sink.” or, “It’s around the corner”

•    Understand quantities related to numbers 
•    Identify sets (numeration)  
•    Count sequentially and identify numerals  
•    Understand one-to-one correspondence 
•    Distinguish between equal and unequal  parts (fractions) 
•    Make estimations
We learned it by;
•    Role-playing “grocery store” with pretend money, cash registers, and items to purchase or sell 
•    Counting out small groups of crackers and matching each group to a numeral card
•    Making a bar graph of the weather trends for the month 
•    Solving simple verbal math problems, such as “There were three birds. One flew away. How many were left?”
•    Playing estimation games such as “Which jar has more pebbles?”

•    Understand geometry concepts, such as more/ less, longer/shorter, and lighter/heavier
•    Understand volume 
•    Identify shapes  
•    Use standard and nonstandard units of measure
We learned it by;
•    Experimenting with measuring cups in the sand or water table and describing quantities, such as “This cup has more than that cup” 
•    Experimenting with weights and scales and deciding which objects are heavier or lighter
•    Participating in a classroom shape hunt such as, “Let’s find all the circles” 
•    Measuring objects, such as a carpet, in shoe lengths and then translating that into feet

•    Identify physical properties, such as shape and texture 
•    Recognize basic properties of living things, such  as plants 
•    Understand the life cycle of living things 
•    Gain familiarity with weather concepts
•    Use what, why, when, where, and how questions appropriately and sequentially
We learned it by;
•    Exploring natural items in our science learning center, such as stones, shells, pinecones, turtle shells, snake skins, and plants 
•    Investigating objects on a light box or light table 
•    Growing a terrarium 
•    Predicting daily weather and determining whether the prediction was accurate 
•    Exploring the properties of various forms of solids and liquids in the sensory table
•    Making a chart of “what we want to know”

•    Develop a strong sense of self 
•    Demonstrate awareness of personal traits and characteristics  
•    Understand our personal ability to impact the world and/or others
We learned it by;
•    Seeing our pictures and family photos posted in prominent places around the room
•    Having our words and work displayed on the walls for families and friends to see 
•    Using new vocabulary words to describe feelings 
•    Sharing cultural or family traditions with the class 
•    Research