Reading Readiness – Students will engage in activities that will help them understand how written language is used.

Phonics

  • upper and lower case visual letter discrimination

  • Letter -sound association

  • Rhyming

  • Auditory sequencing and blending

Whole Language

  • Sight word identification

  • Left to right progression

  • Listening, comprehending and responding to stories

  • Daily Pre-k news

Language Arts

  • Show & tell

  • Circle time sharing and discussions

  • Dramatic play

Math – Students will begin to develop a sense of math all around them. They will notice and use numbers and math concepts to explore their world.

  • Colors, shapes, sorting, and patterning

  • Counting, number recognition and identification

  • Quantitative concepts and position words

  • Single digit addition and subtraction

Science – Students will develop a functioning knowledge of his/her living and non-living environment.

  • Seasons, weather, plants and animals

  • Health and nutrition

  • Various experiments

  • Individualized class studies (ie: caterpillars/butterflies, hatching ducklings, growing plants, building volcanoes

  • Cooking

Social Studies – Students will develop their first sense of community outside the home. This happens as they begin to make friends and participate in decision making in the classroom. Then it moves beyond the school into the surrounding neighborhood and around the world.

  • Character building skills

  • Self- help skills

  • Community helpers

  • Holidays

Fine and Gross Motor Skills – Students will progress through developmental motor sequences at their own pace. This involves all types of movement.

  • Arts & crafts enhances creativity (drawing, coloring, pasting, cutting and painting…)

  • Writing

  • Playdough

  • Manipulatives (buttons, snaps, zippers, beading, weaving …)

  • Gym/ recess

  • Dance

Music

  • Musical activities and experiences help children to practice important skills including thinking, language, motor coordination, emotions and rhythm.

Tiny Tot 2 Year Old

Our toddler classroom is designed to help children engage in learning through play while building independence in different learning centers.

Communication with parents is essential at this age. It is important for the teachers and the parents to be on the same page and trying to reach the same goals.

These goals include:

  • Emotional and social development – using feeling words, making friends, empathy, controlling feelings and dealing with separation anxiety.

  • Talking-growing receptive and expressive vocabulary, beginning to speak with multiple words and creating sentences, communicating wants and
    needs.

  • Thinking – concepts such as time of day, calendar/weather skills, opposites, colors, shapes, sorting, sizes…

  • Playing – individual play, cooperative play eventually, imaginary play and learning play.

  • Everyday self-help skills – toileting, putting on jacket, dressing, feeding self, using tissues and shielding coughs and sneezes.

  • Gross motor – running, jumping, kicking, climbing and balancing…

  • Fine motor – drawing, tracing, coloring, painting, play doh, beading, weaving, quadrupod grasp…