Preschool 2

At elect we support cooperation, sharing and friendships. We also support the development of social skills, problem solving, negotiation and the discovery of the pleasure of playing with their peers in groups. We also provide opportunities for children to practice their self-help skills and we value the partnerships with families since they are the first educators.

1- Social
- Interacting positively and respectfully.
- Empathy.
- Taking another person’s point of view.
- Interacting with adults.

2- Emotional
- Self-concept such as: seeing self as competent and capable.
- Identity formation such as noticing their own abilities.
- Self- esteem such as seeing themselves as valued members of the group.
- Expressing emotions such as decreasing or increasing emotions according to the situations.
- Self-regulation such as focusing attention.
- Positive attitude towards learning such as coping with defeat and error.

3- Communication language and literacy.
- Using verbal and none verbal communication.
- Using Arabic, English, French and German.
- Vocabulary such as asking questions to expand their understanding of words.
- Conversing with peers and adults.
- Using expressive language to explain, explore and expand.
- Enjoying literacy such as discussing books and stories in their play.
- Retelling stories.
- Phonological awareness such as identifying sounds.
- Letter recognition such as identifying words that begin with the same letter.
- Matching spoken words with written ones.
- Beginning to write letters of the alphabets.

4- Cognition
- Self-regulation such as monitoring behavior.
- Problem solving.
- Representation such as recognizing their own work and the work of others.
- Questioning, observing, reasoning logically such as identifying actions and outcomes.
- Communicating findings such as presenting their ideas to others through drawings.
- Classifying such as matching according to common properties.
- Seriating such as describing relationships such as smaller than, bigger than.
- Counting from one to twenty.
- Recognizing numbers from one to twenty.
- Identifying patterns such as waves, spirals, cracks and stripes.
- Using spatial relationships and directions such as forwards, backwards, inside and outside.

5- Physical
- Gross motor skills such as walking, jumping, hopping, throwing, riding, movement and expression.
- Fine motor skills such as dressing, eating, drawing and tool use such as stringing large beads.
- Auditory skills and music such as making noises and demonstrating preferences in music.