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