In our child-centered environment, we nurture your toddler’s natural curiosity through a rich blend of active play, character education, and foundational academic discovery.
From exploring science and math to developing early literacy and social skills, we provide a joyful space where every “I can do it!” moment is celebrated and documented.
In our child-centered environment, we nurture your toddler’s natural curiosity through a rich blend of active play, character education, and foundational academic discovery.
From exploring science and math to developing early literacy and social skills, we provide a joyful space where every “I can do it!” moment is celebrated and documented.
The environment in our preschool is child-centered. Caregivers initiate ideas and allow children to create their own learning experiences based on what they already know and what they want to learn. We desire to provide children with the most enjoyable and productive preschool education. This is accomplished through: Introduction of a letter, number, word, color, theme, concept and skill each week.
Emergent Writing Skills: Scribbling and drawing.
Continued Development of Small Muscles: Beginner use of scissors.
Concepts of Print Introduction: Holding a book correctly (right-side up), turning pages, and understanding that text is read left to right.
Books : Children will be read to frequently throughout each day in order to expand their knowledge on our themes. A variety of reading materials will be used (fantasy, factual, multicultural, diverse ability, poetry). Additionally, books will be accessible at all times for children to read at their leisure.
Character Education is more important today than ever. One of the greatest gifts that we can provide the children in our care is a strong sense of personal values. Good character is something that will instill in the children attending Growing Room a desire to become successful adults able to make a positive contribution to our society. Character Education is instruction which includes teaching concepts covering basic human values such as integrity, respect, responsibility, caring, fairness, citizenship and more.
During each theme, several items that each child completes are labeled, dated, and stored in his or her portfolio. In this way, the teacher can monitor each child’s progress and share this with parents during our parent/teacher conferences held twice each year. At the end of the year, parents can also take the portfolio home as another keepsake.
Science: Natural items, magnifying glasses, scales, magnets, color viewers, thermometers.
Math: Manipulatives are available to foster discovery of size, shape and color. Math activities will begin developing such concepts as rote counting, one to one correspondence, comparison of amounts and sizes, classification, sorting, grouping, matching, sequencing, ordering, volume, dimensions and time.
Creative Expression: Dramatic play center, art center, block center, music and movement, puppets, flannel board stories.
Continued Development of Large Muscles: Climbing, hopping, skipping, galloping, marching, riding toys with and without pedals, push-pull toys, sliding, and manipulating balls.
Social and Personal Skills: Playing cooperatively with others, taking turns, listening and expressing ideas, stating their name and age, demonstrating self help skills, showing confidence, controlling behavior, and demonstrating excitement in their work.
