Rooms

The pre-Kindergarten room contains many possibilities for complex activities and group play. Science and cooking projects focus children on basic principles of the natural world and allow discovery and experimentation. Pre-reading skills such as learning letter and number names and sounds are emphasized. Basic classroom skills, such as following directions, listening, hand-raising and turn-taking are practiced. Teachers provide parents with a synopsis of their day through daily postings on our class bulletin boards.

 

In 2008-2009 we implemented a nationally known pre-writing program developed by Handwriting Without Tears creators. The “Get Set for School” program is now in all our pre-kindergarten classes. This program adds to our four major concepts of creative instruction by providing a consistent and proven system of letter formation. Proven specialized fine motor manipulatives, such as flip crayons, “wet, dry, try” chalk boards and wooden pieces to form letters help to introduce the alphabet in an interesting and fun way. Children will play, build, sing, color and learn while developing important skills for kindergarten such as:

• Language proficiency

• Social Skills

• Fine and Gross Motor Control

• Color and Shape Awareness

• Letter and Number Recognition

• Counting

“Handwriting Without Tears ® aims to make legible and fluent handwriting an easy and automatic skill that every student can master. Our unique and compelling curriculum design and teaching strategies facilitate this goal.”