Preschool GHI Series: Learning More and More

Teaching Aims:

• Practice skills of thinking, coloring, counting, tracing, writing, drawing, cutting, pasting, and matching.
• Review and use eleven colors: eight basic colors, white, pink, and gray.
• Introduce mixing the three primary colors to make other colors.
• Count by 1s and 2s to 100 (or more). Write numbers 0 through 12.
• Identify numbers 0 to 20 in dot-to-dot drawing.
• Introduce pennies. Introduce hours on the clock.
• Review six shapes: circle, square, triangle, rectangle, diamond, and oval.
• Identify sequence of shapes. Draw shapes and simple pictures.
• Match capital and small letters and words by visual discrimination.
• Trace and write a few letters correctly.
• Hear some rhyming sounds and a few initial consonant sounds.
• Learn about birds and animals that live in or near the oceans.
• Review the six other habitats of this series:
  • Polar lands are cold. Mountains are high.
  • Woodlands have trees. Grasslands have grass.
  • Rainforests are wet areas. Deserts are dry areas.