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Pre-Kindergarten
Team Name: Blue Whales
Age range: 4 and 5 years old
2 teachers
Ratio: 1/10
A day in the Blue Whales classroom
- Free play
- Nap time
- Outdoor play in the AM and PM
- Learning centers
- Morning and afternoon snack
- Engaging curriculum lessons
- Breakfast and lunch
Highlights
- Daily outdoor playtime
- Learning centers
- Lessons from our child pastor (resources extended from ABeka curriculum)
- Using the Learning Beyond Paper curriculum
- "Reggio" nature-inspired classroom
In Pre-K, we focus on building early academic skills through play. Children learn foundational math skills, reading, and handwriting while having fun. Young learners grow and acquire language skills through ample free play time. Our learning centers include provocations or provoking questions and play materials with time to explore with their peers.
Pre-K (Pre Kindergarten) Learning
Our Pre-K classrooms help children learn and gain new skills, we aim to be one of the bestpre-k options around! As children reach the age when they will enter Kindergarten the followingschool year, it is imperative that we encompass all the topics and skills they will need to have asuccessful kindergarten experience. It’s all about school readiness!
Centerpointe Academy Pre-K Education Program Details
The learning activities we plan incorporate a very large number of development skills into each one. The list below is but a small example of the range of skills we bring into the Pre-K program.
Visual Perception
- See & remember
- Visual discrimination (tell apart)
- Closure (completing partial figures)
- Judging distance
Language & Communication
- Vocabulary expansion
- Expressing emotions
- Sentence structure
- Divergent thinking
- Learning words by sight
- Writing
Auditory Perception
- Hear & remember
- Auditory discrimination (pitch ortone)
- Following directions
- Determining source of sounds
Music
- Body movement to rhythm
- Singing
- Creative expression
Sensory Perception
- Identifying object through touch
- Identifying object through smell
- Identifying object through taste
- Perceiving touches, smells and tastes
Socialization
- Cooperative play
- Sportsmanship
- Community awareness
- Self-concept within group
Math
- Size discrimination (like &different, big, bigger, biggest)
- 1 to 1 correspondence
- Counting
- Numbers
Science
- Theorizing
- Experimentation
- Experiments
- Prediction
Motor Skills
- Grasping
- Throwing
- Skipping
- Hand to eye coordination
Cognitive
- Associating names and objects
- Exploring and describing
- Memorization
- Expanding attention span
- Problem solving
Body Awareness
- Parts of body
- Controlling fingers, toes
- Self-identity (color of eyes, etc.)
- Place in space
Social Skills
- Helping others
- Contributing to group goals
- Causing others to laugh
- Acting
- Taking turns
- Sharing
Your child will be well prepared for his or her formal education starting with Kindergarten, and you will feel confident that your child is safe and having fun while you work.