Our Preschool Day Gym & Circle Time: Each day starts with a quick daily health check and book check out from our classroom library. This is followed by gym activity time where we will work on gross motor skills and large muscle movement. Kids will do a variety of activities changing from day to day including playing with parachute, yoga stretches, bean bag directed activities and obstacle courses to work on balance skills, games. We will continue our day with a quick Circle Time or large group activity working on math skills with graphing the weather, counting the days on the calendar and doing patterns. We focus on one letter each week and use picture cards to talk about words that start with our letter of the day. Students will learn various songs and finger plays over the year which go along with the theme at the time. The story also goes along with the theme as well. Some themes will include farm, apples and pumpkins, shapes, five senses, flying and space, dinosaurs, teddy bears, insects, and health and safety. Snack & Free Choice Time: Snack time is at the beginning of our transition to the main classroom where students will eat a snack and drink they brought from home preferably a nutritious choice. After clean up we begin our free choice time. During this time the students have many options to choose from such as painting at the easel, sand table, water table, train table, dramatic play in the kitchen, car ramp, doll house, blocks area and reading nook. They can also choose from writing, math, and science tables on a rotating basis as well. Directed Art, Literacy & Math Activities: Students will be pulled from free choice time activities as needed to complete daily tasks in literacy development, art project and math. When they complete an activity they can return to free choice time play. Art projects include: watercolor painting, fingerpainting, clay, playdough, practice in cutting with scissors and gluing crafts, stamping, and many more. Literacy activities include for the class a letter of the week focus page and handwriting book for the older class. Math activities may could involve a puzzle, games to practice counting, matching or taking turns, shapes matching, dice rolling games for number recognition, measuring, graphing, and pattern play. We have a number of different math manipulatives that students can explore with. Occasionally we will work on number recognition worksheets.
Students are responsible for cleaning up toys used during the day before dismissal.