Skill plans / Pre-K
Pre-K skill plan
Every Pre-K skill in Vita, in the order we suggest teaching them. Tap a skill to practice it, or print the plan and check skills off as your child earns each gold star.
90 skills this year: 57 math, 33 language arts. That's about 3 a week over a 36-week school year, and 15 to 20 minutes of practice a day is plenty for most kids.
Standards: Head Start Early Learning Outcomes Framework for math and language arts. 2 skills are extra practice, review, or a preview of a later grade, and say so next to the skill.
Math 57 skills
Numbers and counting
- P.1Count to 3Head Start: Counting and cardinality
- P.2Count to 5Head Start: Counting and cardinality
- P.3Match the numberHead Start: Counting and cardinality
- P.4One moreHead Start: Operations and algebraic thinking
- P.5Find the numberHead Start: Counting and cardinality
- P.6Count scattered picturesHead Start: Counting and cardinality
- P.7Count on a ten frameHead Start: Counting and cardinality
- P.8Which frame shows the number?Head Start: Counting and cardinality
- P.9Count to 20Head Start: Counting and cardinality
- P.10One lessHead Start: Operations and algebraic thinking
- P.11Count the animals in a pictureHead Start: Counting and cardinality
- P.12Dots on a dieHead Start: Counting and cardinality
- P.13First, second, third, lastHead Start: Counting and cardinality
- P.14Count to 10Head Start ELOF Counting and cardinality
- P.15Zero means noneHead Start ELOF Counting and cardinality
- P.16Count downHead Start ELOF Counting and cardinality
- P.17Which number is smaller?Head Start ELOF Counting and cardinality
- P.18Count to 7Head Start ELOF Counting and cardinality
- P.19Count only one kindHead Start ELOF Counting and cardinality
- P.20What number comes after?Head Start ELOF Counting and cardinality
- P.21Missing number to 5Head Start ELOF Counting and cardinality
Comparing and sorting
- P.22More or fewerHead Start: Counting and cardinality
- P.23ColorsHead Start: Measurement (sorting and classifying)
- P.24Find the same pictureHead Start: Measurement (sorting and classifying)
- P.25Same number?Head Start: Counting and cardinality
- P.26Are there enough?Head Start: Counting and cardinality
- P.27Which number is bigger?Head Start: Counting and cardinality
- P.28Sort into groupsHead Start: Measurement and data
- P.29Which group has the most?Head Start ELOF Counting and cardinality
- P.30Full or empty?Head Start ELOF Measurement and data
- P.31Inside or outsideHead Start ELOF Geometry and spatial sense
- P.32Left or rightHead Start ELOF Geometry and spatial sense
Shapes and patterns
- P.33Find the shapeHead Start: Geometry and spatial sense
- P.34What comes next?Head Start: Operations and algebraic thinking (patterns)
- P.35Above and belowHead Start: Geometry and spatial sense
- P.36Flat shapes around usHead Start: Geometry and spatial sense
- P.37Count the shapesHead Start: Geometry and spatial sense
- P.38Longer patternsHead Start: Operations and algebraic thinking
- P.39Find the color and shapeHead Start ELOF Geometry and spatial sense
- P.40Which shape is different?Head Start ELOF Geometry and spatial sense
- P.41Shapes in thingsHead Start ELOF Geometry and spatial sense
Solid shapes
- P.42Name the solid shapeHead Start: Geometry and spatial sense
- P.43Solid shapes around usHead Start: Geometry and spatial sense
Size
- P.44Big and smallHead Start: Measurement
- P.45Tall and shortHead Start: Measurement
- P.46Wide and narrowHead Start: Measurement
- P.47Light and heavyHead Start: Measurement
- P.48Holds more or lessHead Start: Measurement
- P.49Biggest and smallestHead Start ELOF Measurement and data
- P.50Longest and shortestHead Start ELOF Measurement and data
Money
- P.51Pennies and nickelsExtra practice (money is not an ELOF preschool goal)
- P.52Count penniesExtra practice (money is not an ELOF preschool goal)
Adding and taking away
- P.53Put togetherHead Start: Operations and algebraic thinking
- P.54Take awayHead Start: Operations and algebraic thinking
Time and order
- P.55What happens first?Head Start: Measurement and data
- P.56Day or night?Head Start ELOF Scientific reasoning
- P.57SeasonsHead Start ELOF Scientific reasoning
Language arts 33 skills
Letters
- P.1Find the letterHead Start: Print and alphabet knowledge
- P.2Letter or number?Head Start: Print and alphabet knowledge
- P.3Match big and little lettersHead Start: Print and alphabet knowledge
- P.4Which letter is different?Head Start: Print and alphabet knowledge
- P.5Name the letterHead Start ELOF Alphabet knowledge
Sounds
- P.6Rhyming picturesHead Start: Phonological awareness
- P.7Same first soundHead Start: Phonological awareness
- P.8Clap the wordHead Start: Phonological awareness
- P.9First letter of a pictureHead Start: Phonological awareness
- P.10Loud and quietHead Start ELOF Phonological awareness
- P.11Finish the rhymeHead Start ELOF Phonological awareness
Words and listening
- P.12Find the pictureHead Start: Vocabulary
- P.13FeelingsHead Start: Vocabulary
- P.14OppositesHead Start: Vocabulary
- P.15Listen to the storyHead Start: Comprehension and text structure
- P.16Who and what in a storyHead Start: Comprehension and text structure
- P.17Animal soundsHead Start: Vocabulary
- P.18Action wordsHead Start: Vocabulary
- P.19Weather wordsHead Start: Vocabulary
- P.20My bodyHead Start: Vocabulary
- P.21What is it?Head Start ELOF Vocabulary
- P.22Baby animalsHead Start ELOF Vocabulary
- P.23Animal homesHead Start ELOF Vocabulary
- P.24My five sensesHead Start ELOF Vocabulary
- P.25Community helpersHead Start ELOF Vocabulary
- P.26Dress for the weatherHead Start ELOF Vocabulary
- P.27What goes together?Head Start ELOF Vocabulary
- P.28How things moveHead Start ELOF Vocabulary
- P.29How would you feel?Head Start ELOF Emotional functioning
- P.30Rooms in a homeHead Start ELOF Vocabulary
- P.31Kind wordsHead Start ELOF Social relationships
- P.32Safe or not safe?Head Start ELOF Health and safety
Books and print
- P.33Books and readingHead Start: Print and alphabet knowledge
Tip for homeschool families: the progress report on your Family page shows which of these skills your child has mastered, with dates. Print both to keep a record of the year.