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"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world". Nelson Mandela
Philosophy
Children learn best by action! In their early years, children explore the world around them by using all of their senses (i.e. touching, tasting, listening, smelling, and looking). In time, children learn to use one object to represent another. This is the beginning of symbolic thinking. This exciting development takes place during the pre-school years as children play.
Play provides the foundation for academic/school learning. It is the preparation children need before they learn highly abstract symbols such as letters and numbers. Play enables us to achieve the key goals of our early childhood curriculum.
To have fun and play is the work of young children. Play, Learn, and Grow Together as a team!
Curriculum
The first 5 years of life are very important. Because of this we want to provide the best start for your child.
Five areas of development: Communication, Gross motor, Fine motor, Problem solving, and Personal/Social.
Communication: Babbling, vocalizing, listening, and understanding.
Gross Motor: (large muscle). Arm, body, and leg movements. Experiences that could include: Infants and toddlers-reaching, climbing, pushing, pulling, crawling, etc. Pre-schoolers-throwing, jumping, hitting, climbing, riding, etc.
Fine Motor: (small motor). Hand and finger movements. Experiences that could include: grasping, touching, turning, fitting together, filling and dumping, cause and effect, matching, etc.
Problem Solving: Which addresses learning and playing with toys.
Language: (English & Spanish). Experiences that encourage the development of language and communication skills, such as talking, listening, storytelling, reading, writing, etc.
Discovery/Sensory: (Science). Experiences including opportunities for seeing, hearing, touching, tasting, smelling, observing, etc.
Creativity: Experiences allowing children to use their imagination and creativity through a variety of activities such as painting, drawing, coloring, molding, squishing, cutting, crafting, etc. Children have oppurtunities throughout the day to make choices and explore their own interests.
Social: To help children feel comfortable in school, trust their new environment, make friends, and feel they are part of the group.
Emotional: To help children experience pride and self-confidence, develop independence and self-control, and have a positive attitude toward life.
Cognitive: To help children become confident learners by letting them try out their own ideas and experience success and by helping them acquire learning skills such as the ability to solve problems, ask questions, and use words to describe their ideas, observations, and feelings.
Physical: To help children increase their large and small muscle skills and feel confident about what their bodies can do.
Transition to Kindergarten
By the time children get to kindergarten they should be able to: Zip, button, and snap clothing, tie shoes, identify their first and last name. They should also know their age, birthday, their home address and phone number. They should be able to identify parts of their body. They should be able to identify all of their family members.
Physically, they should be able to run, jump, hop, gallop and skip. They should also be able to throw, catch and bounce a ball.
They should be able to solve simple puzzles, count objects to 10, recognize numerals 0-10 and capitol and lowercase letters. They should also know the basic colors and shapes, etc.