Pre-Nursery 2-3 | Nursery 3-4 | Pre-Kindergarten 4-5
Educational/Social Objectives
The teachers encourage cooperative play and encourage children to problem solve together. Children are encouraged to work and play in small groups as well as alone. The children have ample opportunity to role play. Independence and a positive sense of self is fostered through mastering new skills, caring for our school environment, and mastering life skills. Children are encouraged to express their own thoughts and ideas about the world around them. Children are encouraged to persist at a task, follow two-step directions, clean up after themselves, cooperate as a group, and have fun.
Emerging literacy skills are fostered through language games, stories, poetry, songs, rhymes, riddles and phonics. Children are encouraged to write their written first and last names, make up their own stories and poems, label their art work, practice writing the letters of the alphabet, put letter sounds together and form written words. Children are introduced to basic math concepts such as counting to 100, counting by 2’s, 5’s and 10’s, recognizing and writing numbers. Classification of objects by, size, shape and color, identifying opposites, making comparisons, graphing and identifying AB and ABC patterns are incorporated into weekly lessons and monthly themes. Pre- K students become little scientists as they work out science theories, cook, conduct experiments, and make observations about our natural world. Science is incorporated into each monthly theme and children have the opportunity to enroll in our Mad Science Program that takes place on Friday afternoons.
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