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Jumping, Kicking, Skipping, Throwing, Hopping, Walking, Running, Climbing...... These are all gross motor skills that children need to practice and develop. Playing outside All of these activities help the children enrolled here to develop and enhance their is essential to learning and growing and developing these skills. We make it a priority to give the kids enrolled here the opportunity to get outside and play and learn. Summertime, rain or shine, if it's warm you can find us outside! The kids have access to jump ropes, a sand box, chalk, bikes and other ride on toys. We have a fenced yard with room for them to run and play, to tumble and roll, and to jump in mud puddles and make sand castles. We have Relay Races and play Tag and Hide & Seek, and Hop Scotch. We blow bubbles, slide down slides, play catch, and games like Simon Says and Red Light, Green Light. Gross Motor Skills. 
Fine Motor Skills Beading, Coloring, Drawing, Puzzles, Lacing Cutting, Blocks.. Children need to develop their hand & eye coordination and their fine motor skills. We practice using these skills in a variety of ways from cutting with scissors, coloring, building with blocks and doing miscellaneous arts and crafts using materials like pom poms, beads, googly eyes, foam cut outs, etc. Beading and threading also help to develop these skills. We also do activities such as playing board games and using drawing boards and working on puzzles. Sharing, Talking, Problem Solving, Making Friends, Following Directives, Listening Skills.. Children need to establish social skills such as sharing and making friends and group play. They also are given opportunities to expand their attention spans and learn new things. They share in many positive experiences and learn from each other. They learn cooperation, caring and empathy and how to get along with each other. We teach about the 5 senses, Emotions, Family, Following Rules and Directions, and Manners. We have a unit on Animals and Living Things. We do a whole theme on "All About Me" and "Friends" . We teach Same/Different, Respect for others, Health and Safety. We teach Fire Safety, Weather, Seasons, Calendar Basics, and much, much more.
Science & Exploration What? Why? How? Two and three year old children are famous for asking WHY?? We keep their minds active by doing different experiments with them and letting them experience new and exciting activities. Some of the activities we do include nature walks, butterfly life cycles, frog life cycles, ant farms, growing vegetables or other plants and flowers. We've melted ice, made ice cream, mixed colored liquids and oil, made our own crayons, and much more.
Talking, Reading, Listening, Vocabulary Comprehension, Prediction Reading stories is a great way to introduce your child to literacy and enhance their language skills. Children have access to a variety of books here and we read to them on a regular basis. Additionally, we work on identifying letters, and learning their name - helping to develop early writing skills. We work on improving their listening skills with activities and games like Simon Says and Red Light, Green Light along with activity sheets that require them to pay attention to the directions given. We also read interactive stories that require the children to participate by predicting outcomes or sharing their thoughts and emotions. We sing songs and learn rhymes that go along with the season or theme. Coloring and drawing help children with early writing skills. We have practice writing pages that we use for identifying letters then actually writing the letters, although they are encouraged to try if they want to.
Early Math Concepts Counting, Patterns, Sorting Time Concepts, More or Less While we don't expect the kids here to start doing addition and subtraction facts, we do want to introduce them to counting and basic math concepts. Mixing and matching, patterning, counting, sorting, are all basic math skills that will help them to develop a good math foundation. We often use math mats that the kids can first color and then we create scenarios asking them to add or subtract accessory pieces. These math mats are very cool, and the kids love them.. and best of all they help them with learning a valuable learning tool. We also use counters and blocks and even snack time can turn into a math lesson!
Above all, we strive for a home like, family atmosphere where learning is fun and kids can still be kids. The whole package is geared to helping the children in our care be prepared for Kindergarten and yet allow them to explore their surroundings and learn the way children learn best - through PLAY! It is our goal and our hope that these children will be able to function in a kindergarten classroom with ease and confidence. Starting school is a huge milestone and can be filled with apprehension and uncertainty. If they are familiar with the activities and expectations of a kindergarten classroom, it makes their transition that much easier and gives them a little bit of an edge! |
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