Pre-Kindergarten 4 – Nashville International Academy

Nazish Malik

Pre-K4 Teacher

Technical Certification in Early Childhood Education, Nashville State Community College, 2015

B.S. Psychology and Fine Arts, The University of Punjab, Pakistan, 2000

Curriculum

The Pre-K 4 program emphasizes kindergarten readiness with an increased focus on literacy and mathematics skills. Our literacy-rich curriculum invites children to ask questions and express ideas through discussion, dramatic play, storytelling, journaling, and drawing. To develop mathematical skills, children learn to count, manipulate objects, create patterns, sort, compare and measure. Teachers implement a theme-based curriculum that organizes information around a unified context. The themes are organized under three main categories: Me and My Community, Nature, and Ecosystems. Teachers use music, art, dramatic play, storytelling, games, books, and experiments to ignite imagination and bring the theme to life in four weeks of wonder.

Requirement

Child must be four years old by September 15. All children must be potty-trained to attend the Early Childhood program

Pre-Kindergarten 4 Curriculum

The school implements a research-based curriculum that is aligned with state early learning developmental standards and weaves 35 skills into playful games and discovery projects. The cross-disciplinary model supports a child’s ongoing social-emotional, physical, language, and cognitive development.