We use a theme-based curriculum. The lessons are planned by high school students. All high school lesson plans are submitted for approval. Our goal is to encourage active participants in the learning process while stimulating all areas of development. Lessons include differentiation to help challenge our older preschool kids without frustrating our youngest.
Literacy
Zoophinics curriculum
Letter of the week
Math: ➕➖
Observing & describing concrete objects
Improving fine motor skills and dexterity
Recognizing colors, patterns, and attributes
Classifying sets of objects
Comparing objects and using terms that describe quantity such as more than and lighter than
Copying + creating patterns
Recognizing shape concepts
Recognizing and writing numbers
Using logical words such as all, none and the same
Using one-to-one correspondence
Estimating quantity and measurement
Developing problem solving skills
Science: 🔬
Develop child’s innate curiosity about the world
Broaden the child’s procedural and thinking skills for investigating the world, solving problems and making decisions
Increase each child’s knowledge of the natural world
Large Motor: 🏃🏾♀️
Develop children’s motor skills through learning to use the large muscles in their legs, arms, and trunk to run, jump, throw, catch, and kick.
Outside play area with tricycles, scooters, balance toys, balls, basketball hoop, jump rope, hula hoop, etc.
Fine motor:
Manipulative center; includes a variety of materials that encourage the use of finger/fine motor skills.
Playdough is located in various centers in the classroom, helps strengthen child's finger muscles.
Art: 🎨
Art promotes physical, social, emotional, and cognitive growth in children. It also fosters hand-eye coordination.
Creativity is an obvious, but extremely important skill gained from art education.
Self-expression.
Focus
Risk-taking
Block Center:
Playing with blocks help children develop their vocabularies
Improves math skills
Teaches them about gravity, balance, and geometry.
They learn how to describe colors, shapes, sizes and positions as they build various structures
Dramatic Play:
Dramatic play builds comprehension by allowing children to act out familiar stories. Acting out and/or retelling a story helps children make that story their own—and truly comprehend it. They gain an understanding of the characters, the structure, and the themes.
Library:
Print motivation – thinking that books and reading are fun
Vocabulary – knowing the names of things
Print awareness – recognizing print and understanding how books work
Letter knowledge – understanding that each letter has its own name and sounds
Narrative skills – being able to tell stories and describe things
Writing center:
Draw wavy lines across the page that look like lines of text from a book.
Make distinct marks that look like letters and that are separated from each other.
Write some actual letters, especially the letters in their name.
May write their name.
Social Skills:
Expressing emotions. It's vital that as soon as possible children learn to put a name to what they are feeling.
Communication
Listening
Group work
Caring
Non-verbal skills
Self Help Skills:
Self-feeding. The best way to build independent feeding skills is to learn the normal developmental stages of self-feeding.
Independent dressing and grooming.
Hygiene and toileting.
Helping with daily chores like table setting and picking up toys.