I am currently offering a 3-year-old class* for the upcoming 2011-2012 school year. Your child needs to be potty trained and turn 3 by August 1, 2011. I will keep the class size at 6 children, which allows for a more intimate learning environment as well as more one-on-one time with each child.
*Each school year presents different personal circumstances that determine the age of class I choose to offer. This school year (2010-2011) I have offered both a 3 and a 4 year old class. Although I am currently only offering a 3-year-old class, please check back and keep me in mind in the future as a possible option for your 4 year old
as well.
*Each school year presents different personal circumstances that determine the age of class I choose to offer. This school year (2010-2011) I have offered both a 3 and a 4 year old class. Although I am currently only offering a 3-year-old class, please check back and keep me in mind in the future as a possible option for your 4 year old
as well.
Curriculum
My curriculum is ever changing, for every child and every class is different. However, in the ongoing process of creating my curriculum, I strive, first and foremost, to foster within each child a love of learning and books. In the 3-year-old class, we focus on learning our ABC’s and 123’s, developing phonological awareness and other reading readiness skills, fine motor skills and
working and playing together. Each class period, I provide self-paced activity centers which offer choices and freedom to the children as well as provide for different abilities, personalities, and learning styles. These activities may include, but are not limited to, blocks and construction materials, open-ended art, library, dramatic play, puzzles, sensory tubs, exploratory math and science activities, pre-writing activities, computer, flannel board stories, literacy activities, etc. To balance out our individual learning, we also come together for circle time and small group activities. Children learn through play so that is exactly what we do. We play lots of group games and hands-on activities that focus on these skills and content and the children love them. They beg for more! What, a child begging to learn? Why of course! Finally, my favorite part of each day: our book of the day and interactive literacy activity. I provide a quality children’s book and extension activity through which we learn the alphabet, writing, numbers, science, cooking, and more. We have a blast, come and see!
Topics that our read-aloud books will focus on throughout the year:
--Me & my body
--Me & my friends
--Importance of the alphabet/learning to read
--Colors
--Colors
--Stories with a predictable sequence
--Fairy Tales
--Cumulative stories
--Rhyming, lyrical stories
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