Learn, Play, Grow
The classroom is set up to promote learning in every area. Changes to the environment are made to that reflect the monthly theme’s we are learning. The teachers are always near helping your young preschooler how to use new materials and how to play with friends. We provide a good balance of active, quiet, group and structured activities so your child will be happy and content while away from home. The activities will be drawn from the following curriculum areas; art, science, woodworking, cooking, music and movement, drama, literacy (which includes Zoo Phonics reading program), large motor, fine motor, practical life, social and physical skills.
- * Pre-Reading: Children will be using Zoo Phonics reading program.
- The children will learn phonics and play word games that will
- eventually help them to become readers. Zoo phonics helps
- children through Animal sounds and movement games. Along
- with our reading program we use a whole language approach to
- help the children with their vocabulary, articulation, proper
- grammar through stories, pictures and poems.
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- * Math & Science: Activities are introduced to help children recognize
- shapes, sorting, quantity, serrate, matching, numbers and
- counting. Science projects, experiments, cooking and measuring
- projects are done on a weekly basis. You will notice Zoo Phonics
- activities also introduced in math program.
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- * Self-Help: Staff encourages children to dress, eat, wash, use the
- toilet, and wait for turns on their own.
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- * Large Motor: Children go outdoors twice daily, weather permitted.
- We encourage children to participate in daily exercises and games
- to help their coordination and gross motor abilities.
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- * Art & Sensory: Art projects, sensory containers, easel and art
- shelves are available for use during structured and unstructured
- times. Different media is introduced all of the time; some of it is
- very messy but loads of fun.
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- * Social Emotional: Kindness, acceptance, respect, and equality
- (K.A.R.E.) is the name of our program that promotes self-esteem
- and self-worth in all children. The teachers promote cooperative
- play and friendship. Children are introduced to multicultural
- activities and teachers encourage respect and understanding
- for individual differences.
Schedules are posted weekly for parent to view, yearly calendars are available.
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“Creative children look twice, listen for smells, dig deeper, build dream castles, get from behind locked doors, have a ball, plug in the sun, get into and out of deep water, sing in their own key.”
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