Students will work to:

Gain more control over their emotions

Calm down after a big emotion

Control Impulses

Focus on a task/Re-focus on a task

Express emotions to others

Communicate in ways that allow them to create friendships with others

Explore these children's book titles that talk about Self-Regulation and big emotions. 

Students will focus on:

Building and maintaining friendships

Expressing their emotions, cope with negative emotions

Recognize emotions in others, express sympathy

Consider perspectives that are different from their own

Pay attention to social cues

Resolve conflict without aggression, offer forgiveness,  make amends after a transgression

Check out this Scholastic article, with books relating to Social and Emotional Skills. 

Preschoolers are giving direct instruction that fuels their curiosity and builds their love for learning in topics such as:

Foundational Math skills

Foundational Literacy Skills

Foundational Science Skills

Foundational Social and Emotional Skills

Everyone is born curious. All children want to learn about the world around them. They have a natural curiosity.  At Little Hornets, we have a high-quality, play-based curriculum that teaches kids how to focus, ask questions, and pursue more Information. Students form positive associations with learning and school including:

Listening to and learning from others

Making predictions and observations

Learning and playing near and with other children

Did you know that language skills are a predictor for reading and writing success later in life? Language skills in preschoolers are so important! Here are some ways we focus on language in Little Hornets:

Looking and listening at who is speaking

Following multi-step directions

Speaking in complete sentences, having multiple exchange conversations, telling stories about things in the past

Expressing ideas, observations, predictions, and feelings

Expanding our vocabularies

Using language to learn about our world. For example, rhyming, word games, re-telling stories, counting games, and more.

Interested in learning more about Language Development in preschoolers? Explore this site from Australia.

Not only are preschoolers extremely capable of independence and responsibility, they crave the ability to be independent. This is an invaluable skill as children begin school and spend more time away from their parents. Ways we teach independence and responsibility include: 

Teaching and encouraging problem solving (How will we get the blocks back In that basket? What do we need to paint? I don't want to play X game, but my friend does!? etc)

Creating community and mutual responsibility for our environment and actions (Putting away toys we get out, asking friends before joining or taking something, etc)

Setting a predictable schedule and discusses changes that will happen

Real choices and consequences (You have played at the sand table for our entire free choice period, we have 5 minutes left, if you choose to stay here you won't get a turn at the play dough.)

Responsibility for student's belongings and dressing independently for outdoor play

Click here for more information about building independence in preschoolers.