What Children Learn at HIPPY

​ HIPPY children develop their literacy, language, science, math, and motor skills. The HIPPY Curriculum activities also develop children's creativity and their social, emotional, and cognitive skills.

Literacy

• Enjoyment of books and reading

• Story recall and comprehension

• Book knowledge (title, author, concepts such as front and back cover, top and bottom of page, beginning, middle and end of the story)

• Letter recognition, visual discrimination and sound awareness

• Picture reading

Math

• Math readiness (quantity, size, one-to-one correspondence)

• Categorizing and sorting  

• Counting, number recognition and number sense

• Matching and measuring

• Visual discrimination (colours and shapes)

Science

• Scientific exploration

• Logical reasoning through observation, identification, investigation, and describing 

• Sensory discrimination

• Problem solving

• Independent thinking and predicting

Motor

• Eye-hand coordination

• Spatial perception

• Fine and gross motor control

• Balance

• Pincer grasp

Language

• Auditory discrimination and listening skills

• Vocabulary development

• Receptive and expressive language

• Phonemic / phonological awareness

• Early writing experiences