Basically the needs are the same. They are just at a different level. I had three grandkids in preschool and their mother and I spent one whole day teaching the class. It was on St. Patrick’s day and we taught the kids Irish history and such. We ate Irish stew from veggies we cut up and the kid’s threw into the pot. We made leprechauns about of tin cans, Bread dough snakes colored green. Colored a picture of an Irish flag. Then we packed up our suitcase in preparation for taking a trip to Ireland. I had pics of different things and we had to decide which we needed to take with us on our trip. No pumpkins or scissors, but we did need pants and coats. We also read some stories with pics in them and held them up so the kids could guess what the pics were. We had a ball and so did the kids. The teachers told us what curriculum to follow and I put together the stuff to do it with on my computer.

As I said, they learn some of the same things kids at elementary school learn just make it on their level.

yes, must be able to tie their own shoes , must be able to do up coat , must be washroom trained, lol, by the end of kindergaren must be able to count to 30 or hundread schools might be different though, days of the week and alphabet , um, write their names and have a back pack and snack,peanut free ,need to be able to uses sicssor to cut out shapes and share ect on and on then a again my kids never went to pre school what do i know?

school age children needs instruments for drawing diagrams,calculator for maths and science/more books to study difernet subjects.pre school kids need only drawing pens.pencils for colouring , and so on