Preschoolers
We are licensed for 25 Preschoolers, ages 33 months to five years of age, and we adhere to a 1:10 ratio.
Here is the “Welcome to the Preschooler Room” Newsletter.
Classroom Goals and Activities (for ages 33 months to five years of age)
Social:
Social Competence and Relationships
- Interact easily with one or more children
- Interact easily with familiar adults
- Approach others with expectations of positive interactions
- Begin to participate successfully as a member of a group
- Use play to explore, practice, and understand social roles and relationships
- Begin to understand others’ rights
- Sustain interaction by cooperating, helping, sharing, and expressing interests
- Seek adult help when needed for emotional suppose physical assistance, social interaction, and approval
- Use words and other constructive strategies to resolve conflicts
Human Relationships
- Recognize and appreciate similarities and differences between self and others from diverse backgrounds
- Understand various family roles, jobs, rules, and relationships
- Participate in activities to help others in the community
- Recognize and describe the roles of workers in the community
- Share responsibility in taking care of their environment
- Identify characteristics of the places where they live and play within their community
Emotional:
- Demonstrate an increasing competency in recognizing and describing own emotions
- Demonstrate an increasing use of words instead of actions to express emotions
- Begin to understand and respond to others’ emotions
- Begin to show self-regulation to handle emotions appropriately
- Respond to praise, limits, and correction
- Self-Concept:
- Begin to experiment with own potential and show confidence in own abilities.
- Demonstrate increasing self-direction and independence.
- Develop an awareness of self as having certain abilities, characteristics, and preferences.
Intellectual:
Interest Development and Discernment
Curiosity
- Show eagerness and a sense of wonder as a learner
- Show interest in discovering and learning new things
Risk-Taking
- Choose new, as well as a variety, of familiar activities
- Use a variety of strategies to solve problems
Imagination and Invention
- Approach tasks and experiences with flexibility, imagination, and inventiveness
- Use new ways or novel strategies to solve problems or explore objects
- Try out various pretend roles in play or with make believe objects
Language and Literacy Development
Listening
- Understanding verbal and non-verbal cues
- Listen with understanding to stories, directions, and conversations
- Follow directions that involve two or three step sequence of actions
- Listen to and recognize different sounds in rhymes and familiar words
Speaking
- Communicate needs, wants, or thoughts through non-verbal gestures, actions, expressions, and/or words
- Speak clearly enough to be understood
- Use language for a variety of purposes
- Use increasingly complex and varied vocabulary and language
- Initiate, ask questions, and respond in conversation with others
Emergent Reading
- Initiate stories and respond to stories told or read aloud
- Represent stories told or read aloud through various media or during play
- Guess what will happen next in a story using pictures as a guide
- Retell information from a story
- Show beginning understanding of concepts about print
- Recognize and name some letters of the alphabet, especially those in own name
- Begin to associate sounds with words or letters
Emergent Writing
- Understand that writing is a way of communicating
- Being to copy or write own name
- Use pictures, shapes, or dictation to represent thoughts or ideas
Creating
- Use a variety of media and materials for exploration and creative expression
- Participate in art and music experiences
Mathematical and Logical Thinking
Number Concepts and Operations
- Demonstrate increasing interest in and awareness of numbers and counting
- Demonstrate understanding of one-on-one correspondence between objects and numbers
- Demonstrate ability to count in sequence
- Demonstrate ability to state the numbers up to ten
- Demonstrate beginning ability to combine and separate numbers of objects
Patterns and Relationships
- Recognize and duplicate simple patterns
- Sort objects into subgroups by one or two characteristics
- Order or sequence several objects on the basis of one characteristic
Spatial Relationships/Geometry
- Identify and name common shapes
- Using words that show understanding of order and position of objects
Gross Motor:
- Develop large muscle control and coordination
- Develop body strength, flexibility, and stamina
- Use a variety of equipment for physical development
- Develop ability to move their body in space with coordination
Fine Motor:
- Develop small muscle control and coordination
- Use hand-eye coordination to perform a variety of tasks
- Explore an experiment with a variety of tools (e.g. spoons, crayons, paintbrushes, scissors, keyboards)
Physical Health and Well Being:
- Participate in a variety of physical activities to enhance personal health and physical fitness
- Follow basic health and safety rules
- Recognize and eat a variety of nutritious foods
- Demonstrate increasing independence with basic self-care skills
Spiritual:
Daily emphasis of Christ as Savior, Creator and Lord throughout all activities, songs, stories, and projects.
- Participates in simple songs about Jesus
- Participates in prayers before meals and at Jesus time.
- Participates in simple Bible stories.
- Celebrate God’s love in worship.
The child will acquire and demonstrate spiritual development appropriate for their age:
- Has a beginning understanding of God’s love as demonstrated by the adults around him;
- Has a beginning knowledge of Jesus as a friend and Savior;
- Has a beginning understanding of forgiveness as demonstrated by the adults around them;
- Know Jesus died for them and rose again;
- Grow in faith;
- Know that God gives us families to help each other;
- Grow in their love for all people;
- Tell how all people need Jesus;
- Thank God for the world He made; and
- Grow in their desire to help care for God’s creation.
Daily Schedule:
7:00 – 8:40 Free Play
8:40 – 8:45 Clean-Up
8:45 – 8:55 Song of the Week
8:55 – 9:20 Breakfast
9:20 – 9:40 Bathrooming
9:40 – 10:00 Morning Circle Time
10:00 – 10:30 M: Spanish
T: KidFit
W: Free Play
Th: Music
F: Chapel
10:30 – 11:00 Outside Play/Muscle Room
11:00 – 11:10 Bathrooming
11:10 – 11:35 Books and Circle Time
11:35 – 12:15 Lunch
12:15 – 12:45 Bathroom/Look at Books
12:45 – 3:00 Nap/Rest Time/Quiet Activities
3:00 – 3:15 Snack
3:15 – 3:00 Bathroom/Clean Up
3:30 – 3:45 Jesus Time
3:45 – 4:00 Small Groups
4:00 – 4:30 Enrichment/Free Play
4:30 – 4:45 Clean Up
4:45 – 6:00 Outside Play/Muscle Room