Below are what you can expect to happen in all of our pre-k classrooms:
Classrooms will have 20 students and two adults at most.
Teachers and Instructional assistant pull small groups or sit down with kids in centers and teach math, literacy, science, and social emotional skills while kids play using play-based learning techniques.
Center Time Procedures
Students will have 220 minutes of center based play.
Centers include, but are not limited to:
library, blocks, dramatic play, math, art, writing, play-dough, so on.
Each center has a maximum number of students that can play there at a time, ranging from 2-4 students.
Students have free-choice center time for a substantial portion of the day.
Centers will be cleaned/sanitized at the end of the day.
ANY toy that is put in a child's mouth or sneezed on will be removed from the center until that item can be properly sanitized by staff
Items like dress-up clothes, pillows, ect., will be laundered weekly
Students may have individual and labeled containers for play-dough, sensory items, and art/writing utensils like crayons, markers.