Skills to Learn at Preschool

The other day I asked a preschool teacher, who happens to be a friend, on what skills should a child learn in preschool to be ready for grade school (specifically grade 1). This would greatly help me in guiding A on the direction to go by preparing appropriate and beneficial learning enhanced activities. Her list goes as follows:

- Recognizes and identifies all the alphabets.
- Recognizes and make simple rhyming words.
- Recognizes and can match simple words that begins with the same sound letter  (eg. apple, arrow, alligator)
- Can follow words being read from left to right, top to bottom.
- Can match words spoken with words that are written 
- Can identify basic body parts
- Can tell to relate experinces.
- Can repeat simple informations from a story.
- Can draw or write letters & words to express thoughts or  feelings
- Can write / spell high frequency sight words
- Can write his/her own name
- Recognizes written numbers 1-10.
- Can count the number of objects in a set
- Can write the number symbols of  1 to 10.
- Identifies and can compare (and creates) between two sets in terms of quantity that it contains.
     (eg. set A is more/ less/equal to set B)
- Can estimate quantities. (eg. give me one ball vs. give me all the balls)
- Can more or less do simple addition and subtraction with the use of concrete objects. (you use concrete objects like blocks, coins, toy cars, pebbles, apples or any fruits, cut out shapes, etc.)
- Can measure object's length (or weight) and can compare two objects in terms of their length. (eg. tall vs. short; heavy vs. light, wide vs. narrow, big vs.small)
- Can identify, draw, and describe basic shapes: circle, square, triangle, rectangle (eg. a triangle has 3 sides; a square has 4 equal sides)
- Knows how to use a scissors for cutting and following lines.
- Can follow simple one directional instructions. (eg. get that ball)
- Can follow two directional instructions. (eg. get that ball and and put it on the table)

There might be some other things she missed according to her like social, practical, more fine motor, and gross motor skills. It would be best to check the child developmental milestones and include them to the list.

I see now that most of the activities done during A's therapies are based on what's on this list. Now that I have I guide, it will be easier to create activities to supplement A's learning and therapy.

Thank you teacher!