What we are Learning!

As parents, please feel free to email or call at any time with questions or concerns. Your concerns will be addressed in a timely manner.

Assessments: We use 4 specific assessments, 2 times per year.

Early Learning Assessment (ELA)

• ELA is a comprehensive, observation based log of a child's skills across the areas of development: Social, Language, Math, Science, Social Studies, Physical well being, Motor development, and the Fine Arts.

The Brigance III Screening

• The Brigance screening is the academic component which guides what the student needs to develop before attending Kindergarten. It assesses students from 3-6 years of age .

Ages and Stages - Social Emotional

• The Ages and Stages questionnaire is the survey that preschool uses to gather information about the students social development. The parents complete this questionnaire in the fall or at the time of enrollment on a yearly basis.

Learning Without Tears (AKA - Handwriting Without Tears)

• This assessment helps the staff develop an appropriate plan for each student, individually. It deals with how they hold writing implements and what specific shapes they can make, whether straight line, curve or diagonals. Those 3 motions are what makes the 26 letters of the alphabet.

Curriculum

• Creative Curriculum is used as a leaning tool to make real life connections to preschoolers lives. We have 8 different "themes" that we use throughout the year to help our students understand real life situations in the world.

Communication

• We use a daily communication notebook to talk to parents, although emails and telephone work as well.

• There is a monthly newsletter that we subscribe to that helps parents better prepare their children for skills that they need to develop as a preschooler. It also provides a great literacy connection with ideas of "new reads" for young children.

• We use the weekly Message System that Oakwood District provides as a weekly communication method. For preschool this mode looks kind of like a scrap book filled with pictures of what happening in Oakwood Preschool.