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.

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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

Mother and child reading

Home Instruction for Parents of Preschool Youngsters (HIPPY) provides a free preschool program to newcomer families and low-income families living in social isolation.

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