Tennessee Guiding Principles
Tennessee Early Learning Developmental Standards Pre-Kindergarten
Social Studies
Early Learning Development Standards (ELDS) Kindergarten Culture
Students will explore different traditions, customs, and cultures within their families, schools, and communities.
PK.01 In conversation, describe familiar people, places, things, and events, with reference to a student’s home
and school. K.01 Describe familiar people, places, things, and events within a student’s home, school, and
community.
PK.02 Begin to recognize similarities and differences between family customs and cultures. K.02 Compare and contrast family traditions and customs, including food, clothing, homes, and games.
Economics
Students will identify basic wants and needs, the ways families produce, consume, and exchange goods and services in their communities, and the work people do in order to spend and save money.
PK.03 Begin to distinguish between wants and needs. K.03 Distinguish between wants and needs.
PK.04 Identify how the basic human needs of food, clothing, shelter, and transportation are met. K.04 Identify and explain how basic human needs of food, clothing, shelter, and transportation are met.
PK.05 Begin to recognize money and its uses. K.05 Explain the benefits of saving money.
PK.06 Identify different types of jobs, including work done in the home, school, and community. K.06 Recognize and describe different types of jobs, including work done in the home, school, and community.
PK.07 Give examples of how people exchange goods and use money to acquire wants and needs. K.07 Give examples of how people use money to make purchases.
Geography
Students will demonstrate an understanding of the concept of location, what maps and globes represent, and their geographical location.
PK.08 Use directions such as up, down, in front, and behind. K.08 Use personal directions such as up, down, near, far, left, right, in front of, and behind.
PK.09 Identify what a map represents. K.09 Explain what a map and globe represent.
PK.10 Understand how roads help people get around, and how they are used to organize locations within a city.
K.10 Recall the student’s and/or school’s street address, city/town, and state.
Government and Civics
Students will learn the foundations of good citizenship, including civic responsibilities and patriotism, through the rules by which they live, the authority figures within their community and the United States, and national symbols.
PK.11 Give examples of people who are authority figures. K.11 Give examples of the following concepts: authority, fairness, responsibility, and rules.
PK.12 Recognize shapes found on flags and identify the American flag. K.12 Identify the following state and national symbols: American flag, Tennessee flag, and the words of the
Pledge of Allegiance.
PK.13 Begin to recognize the name and role of the current President of the Unites States. K.13 Recognize and name the current President of the United States.
PK.14 Identify roles of authority figures at home, in school, and in the community, including parents, school principals, volunteers, police officers, fire and rescue workers, mayor, governor, and president.
K.14 Explain that the President is the leader of the United States. PK.15 Identify the need for rules. K.15 Describe roles of authority figures in the home, school, and community, including: caregivers, teachers, school principal, police officers, and fire/rescue workers. PK.16 This standard begins in Kindergarten. K.16 Explain the purpose of rules and laws.
History
Students will understand the chronological organization of history and the importance of holidays.
PK.17 Begin to understand the use of words and phrases about time, including: morning, afternoon, night, today, tomorrow, and yesterday. K.17 Use correct words and phrases related to chronology and time, including: Now, long ago, before, after, morning, afternoon, night, today, tomorrow, and yesterday.
K.18 This standard begins in Kindergarten. K.18 Identify days of the week and months of the year. K.19 This standard begins in Kindergarten. K.19 Locate and describe events on a calendar, including: birthdays, holidays, cultural events, and school events. K.20 This standard begins in Kindergarten. K.20 Identify and discuss the following holidays, and analyze why we celebrate them: Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, Presidents’ Day, Independence Day, Thanksgiving, and Veterans Day.
Source: Tennessee Department of Education
The kids learn to read & write after learning to speak and listen actively
- Listening comes first-by listening to others the child learns to identify speech.
- Speaking-Listening is followed by speaking
- Reading – Reading comes much, much, later after the child masters the ‘look and say’ method of identifying letters and words and begins to read.
- Writing (This comes last) – It starts only after the child is able to hold a pencil or crayon. We seem , as a country to place a lot of importance on writing, even before the child has mastered listening, speaking and reading skills.
Achievement
The Mastering of the spoken word, identification of letters, numbers, alphabet, word pictures, and other objects are necessities for development.
Leaps N Bounds Academy utilizes over 360 spoken language activities, 250 written language activities and 225 identifying sound activities.
These activities assist children in learning basic skills with repetitiveness in order to master more difficult skill.
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I have known Priscilla for many years. There is no one more I would trust with my infant or child than her. We worked together in the Newborn Nursery at River Park Hospital years ago. -Stacy Brown
Priscilla DunnRegistered Nurse and OwnerKristie used to work at the Manchester Rec Center in the daycare and Nursery in Manchester TN while she was going to school. My kids loved Kristie. When she became a teacher at the Middle School my kids were so excited to see Kristie at school. -Jeanette Wilson
Kristie MorrisonProfessional Teacher and Owner
Leaps N Bounds Academy
The Pedagogy of Childcare
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Pedagogy informs teacher actions, judgments, and teaching strategies by taking into consideration theories of learning, understandings of students and their needs, and the backgrounds and interests of individual students.
Pedagogy includes how the teacher interacts with students and the social and intellectual environment the teacher seeks to establish. Its aims may include furthering liberal education (the general development of human potential) to the narrower specifics of vocational education (the imparting and acquisition of specific skills).
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