Curriculum

The goals of our curriculum are multi -faceted. We encourage children to be enthusiastic, self confident, and independent learners. Our curriculum is whole language based, addressing all aspects of early childhood education. Areas addressed in this curriculum are:

  1. Language – words and concepts, listening and verbal communication.
  2. Visual Perceptual Motor – (forms and concepts, visual patterns, visual-motor communication, and eye-hand control.
  3. Participation – awareness and attention, organizing and planning, social interaction and self-esteem.
  4. Physical—Gross and fine motor skills
  5. Social Development
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An example of how these concepts fit into a daily schedule are as follows:

Free Play - Participation, language, and motor skills.

Circle Time - Language, pre-reading, academic and participation skills.

Snack - Language, motor and participation skills.

Story or Music Time - Language and participation skills.

Motor Time - Visual perception, motor and body awareness and language skills.

Curriculum Goals

Two's

Young children get the opportunity to separate from home and family in a positive way. We encourage sharing of not only toys, but of their play space. In this way, they can learn that school and education will become an enjoyable part of their life.

Shapes, colors and textures are introduced through a wide variety of hands-on art experiences.

Three's

Identifying letters and recognizing their sounds. Our alphabet books are worked on through out the year. Children are taught to write upper case letters.

Beginning math: Identify numbers 0-10.

Beginning Science: Exploring changes in both ourselves and our environment. A unit on Our Bodies is worked on through out the year.

Pre K/K

Development of early literacy skills, mathematical concepts, and science exploration

Children are taught both upper and lower case letters.

Math – Sorting by colors, size and object. Graphing and Patterns.

Science – Units on weather, the solar system and the changing environment around us.

Judaic

The Preschool continues to emphasize Judaic content with song, stories, daily blessings, Shabbat and Holiday programming for the children and parents. We are very fortunate to have an Israeli Emissary doing language, cultural, music and history enrichment.