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PRESCHOOL PROGRAM (2 1/2 - 3 1/2 YEARS)

Interest centers in this room include the following:

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  • Dramatic Play - developing social and emotional skills

  • Library/listening - stimulating language and communication

  • Creative Art - encouraging innovation, creativity, and learning

  • Gross Motor - encouraging the use of large muscles to help teach balance and coordination

  • Manipulative - developing fine motor control by stacking, scribbling, cutting, etc.

  • Discovery - encouraging children to explore their world using their senses

  • Blocks - developing fine motor skills (building), and introducing special relationships

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In this room you'll see children:

  • Growing up fast

  • Exploring the "real world"

  • Playing together and cooperating with playmates

  • Doing projects • learning to listen and follow directions

  • Trying out new skills

  • Being helpers learning at a fast pace

  • HAVING FUN!

  • You will see the teachers

  • Encouraging independence

  • Giving children some responsibility

  • Letting children make choices

  • Praising the children and giving hugs assisting children in various interest centers, while encouraging exploration and creativity

OVERVIEW OF THE PROGRAM

Children will learn more about primary colors and how to mix them to make the secondary colors. They will learn letters and numbers through hands on activities in the interest centers listed above. They will learn more about shapes, expanding to more complex ones. Creative art will stimulate their imagination and they will be singing, dancing, and exercising to music and performing. They'll be involved in storytelling and dramatic play. The seasons and holidays will be discussed, as well as weather, dinosaurs and other topics appealing to small children. Of course, they will be spending a lot of time outdoors, to enhance gross motor skills, as well as release that energy! Simple cooking activities will be introduced, along with the skills of sorting, matching, classification, measuring and following directions. These are just a few of the special activities your child will be participating in while in this room.

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