Programs & Curriculums
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Fine Motor Skills
Many children may have already developed confidence in holding writing utensils and we will build upon that. Students will begin tracing, learning proper letter formation, writing simple letters independently and eventually progressing to writing and typing their own name.
Gross Motor Skills
Our students will enjoy at least 90 minutes of outdoor play daily (weather permitting) where they will learn to swing a golf club and baseball bat. They will perfect their skills of throwing and shooting a basketball as well as running while kicking a ball. Organize movements such as Zumba and Yoga will be the highlight of many of our Pre Kindergarteners day.
Independence
The sweet sound,” I can do it myself”. Students will be encouraged to independently get dressed, solve problems with friends, complete activities, and move about their day with confidence. Our consistent schedule and predictable routine helps to foster a sense of stability that allows children to explore safely.
Literacy
Social- Emotional Skills
Concentration
Dramatic Play
Preparing children for Kindergarten is our greatest pleasure. Literacy, the ability to read and write is one of the most amazing gifts we can offer children in our program. Books will fill our classrooms and students will be encourage to sit down have quite time with a favorite story with a teacher, friend or independently. At this stage our students will be introduced to sight words, phonetically deconstructs sounds, matching letter sounds with words, and reading comprehension.
Children maybe able to move on to lessons counting 11-20. Students will learn how to use and read graphs, become familiar with tools of measurement, recognize 2 and 3- dimensional shapes and identifies and creates patterns.
“The first essential for the child’s development is concentration. The child who concentrates is immensely happy”. Maria Montessori
This year dramatic play will become your child’s new way of life. Anything can be a telephone, cooking can be accomplished without a stove, and everything you do in front of your child will show up sooner or later. Through dramatic play their ever-growing imagination will reach new heights as they role-play and pretend to be someone else. This action by itself will help to foster language skills, social emotional skills, math, gross and fine motor skills just to mention a few.
Our Program
We strive to meet all-important milestones of early childhood development. Our program utilizes the Virginia’s Early Childhood Development Alignment Project for ages 0 to 48 months alongside various other supplemental resources to develop the whole child. According to the Virginia’s Milestone of Early Development, “Developed with consideration to children’s individual rates at which they progress through common developmental milestones, as well as the different patterns exhibited in children’s strengths across the learning domains. The goal must be to fit enriched learning opportunities to the child rather than to fit the child into preconceived, “one-size-fits-all” paths.”
Our daily activities focus on the development of: social-emotional, language, literacy, cognitive and general knowledge, fine arts, fine motor, and physical development and health. Each day, our children fall more in love with simple yet necessary task like reading, exploring nature, music and dance, pre-math, and their community.
Fine Motor Control
Children will develop strength and fine motor control in their hands through in a variety of ways some examples are pre-writing activities, lacing, block play, painting, and pouring water.
Gross Motor
There is no shortage of movement at this stage of life. Our students will enjoy at least 90 minutes of outdoor play daily weather permitting where they will run, climb, catch, and safely explore the outdoors.
Independence
Children will be taught the value in respecting their environment. We will teach and encourage our students to clean up behind themselves and place things back where they belong. We will walk students through skills to help minimize frustration and build confidence that they can do it by themselves.
Literacy
Language this year will be bursting with amazing sentence structure and funny adjectives. Hold on to your seats! We will continue to read books fiction and non-fiction, students will learn the parts of the book, recite poems and practice letter recognition, and strengthen phonemic awareness.
Pre Math
Children will learn about number quantities, ordering, colors, shapes, matching, and sorting. We will introduce the concept of zero and focus on number building a strong foundation in numbers 1-10.
Concentration
“The first essential for the child’s development is concentration. The child who concentrates is immensely happy”. Maria Montessori
Social- Emotional Skills
Our students will learn expressive language about their feelings and others, understand social cues, use positive communication, and develop self-regulation.
Dramatic Play
This year dramatic play will become your child’s new way of life. Anything can be a telephone, cooking can be accomplished without a stove, and everything you do in front of your child will show up sooner or later. Through dramatic play their ever-growing imagination will reach new heights as they role-play and pretend to be someone else. This action by itself will help to foster language skills, social emotional skills, math, gross and fine motor skills just to mention a few.
Kindergarten
Fine Motor Control
Many children may have already developed confidence in holding writing utensils and we will build upon that. Students will begin tracing, learning proper letter formation, writing simple letters independently and eventually progressing to writing and typing their own name.
Gross Motor
Our students will enjoy at least 90 minutes of outdoor play daily (weather permitting) where they will learn to swing a golf club and baseball bat. They will perfect their skills of throwing and shooting a basketball as well as running while kicking a ball. Organize movements such as Zumba and Yoga will be the highlight of many of our Pre Kindergarteners day.
Independence
The sweet sound,” I can do it myself”. Students will be encouraged to independently get dressed, solve problems with friends, complete activities, and move about their day with confidence. Our consistent schedule and predictable routine helps to foster a sense of stability that allows children to explore safely.
Literacy
Preparing children for Kindergarten is our greatest pleasure. Literacy, the ability to read and write is one of the most amazing gifts we can offer children in our program. Books will fill our classrooms and students will be encourage to sit down have quite time with a favorite story with a teacher, friend or independently. At this stage our students will be introduced to sight words, phonetically deconstructs sounds, matching letter sounds with words, and reading comprehension.
Pre K math
Children maybe able to move on to lessons counting 11-20. Students will learn how to use and read graphs, become familiar with tools of measurement, recognize 2 and 3- dimensional shapes and identifies and creates patterns.
Social- Emotional Skills
Representation matters and dramatic play is empowering for children. They can see themselves as everyday heroes such as fire fighters, doctors, teachers, and engineers. They may also just want to be mommy and daddy for the day or watch our in class puppet show. Wherever their imagination leads them we will support them in playing safely.
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