What are we learning and how are we doing it?

Mission Statement

Foundations for Learning Preschool provides a safe, nurturing environment that stimulates a child’s natural desire to learn. By focusing on specific goals in all areas of learning, teaching specific content knowledge and skills, encouraging friendships, and offering open communication with families. The aim is to include and enhance every child’s life; if special supports or assistance would help in reaching this goal, we will access them.

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Curriculum

Kaplan LEARN Every Day is research-based, using developmentally appropriate methods within a nurturing environment that supports all learners. Included within each unit is literacy, math, science, social studies, and creative arts; these intentional learning experiences encourage exploration and discovery and are designed for multisensory learning. LEARN Every Day is a PA state-approved curriculum.

Learning Centers

Learning Centers provide the most natural and effective use of classroom materials, time, and space. Children are free to make choices, explore at their developmental levels, share with friends, dramatize, and create. Children move around freely and learn by doing. They have frequent contacts with the teacher learning while learning to work with others. They meet problems and learn to solve them. They grow in confidence and self-respect.

What are we learning and how are we learning it?

Art

Child Learns in the Art Area:

 Discover line, color, shape and texture by seeing and feeling objects.

 Express individual thoughts and feelings.

 Engage in conversation by sharing ideas with others.

 Develop problem-solving skills.

 Develop organizational skills.

 Respond to storytelling by drawing or painting.

 Experiment with materials to understand cause and effect.

Music and Movement

Singing and moving to music gives the children a chance to hear and appreciate different kinds of music, express themselves through their movement, and practice new skills.
Here are some of the things we do to encourage a love for music and movement:
 We listen to all different kinds of music and dance.
 We play instruments to make our music,
 We give the children colored scarves and ribbon dancers to use as they move to the music
 We use songs to help us get through the daily routines such as clean up time

Library Center

What Your Child Learns in the Library Area:

 Respond to simple directions, commands and questions

 Recognize and compare familiar and unfamiliar sounds

 Acquire the meaning of how vocabulary works

 Retell a familiar story

 Create stories using invented spelling

 Focus attention on the teacher

 Recall important facts from a story

 Arrange the events of a story in sequential order

 Distinguish between real and make-believe

Select books for individual needs and interests

 Recognize that everyone has experiences to write about

 Recognize that writing can entertain and inform

What are we learning and how are we learning it?

Outside Play, Fresh Air and Sunshine

What Your Child Learns in the Outdoor:

 Develop muscular strength and endurance.

 Develop flexibility.

 Perform body mechanics.

 Develop body awareness.

 Develop coordination and balance.

 Participate in cooperative games.

 Develop and practice behavior, reflective of good sportsmanship.

Science and Discovery

What Your Child Learns in the Discovery/Science Area:
 Use senses to gain information about the environment.
 Use vocabulary to compare objects.
 Sort objects from the environment.
 Observe color, texture, size and shape of objects.
 Observe cause and effect of materials.
 Observe systems, cycles, interactions, and diversity in the environment.
 Make predictions.
 Observe relationships between objects.
 Use measurement skills to gain information.
 Match, sort and classify objects.

What we are learning and how we are learning it?

Literacy - Small Groups

Upper and lowercase letters
Writing letters and words
Dictating stories
Rhyme
Alliteration
Print Concepts
CVC words

Math - Small Groups

Literacy - Small Groups

Rote counting, counting objects, number recognition, connecting numbers to groups
more than, less than, equal to
addition and subtraction
measuring
data collection, graphs
shapes

What are we learning and how are we learning it?

Sensory Play

What Your Child Learns in the Sensory Area:

 Compare and contrast similarities and differences.
 Recognize the empty set
 Know terms related to direction and location.
 Use vocabulary to designate quantities like more than; less than; equal to
 Use senses such as taste, smell, touch, sight, and sound.
 Acquire fundamental movement skills.
 Practice self-help skills
 Develop pincer control.
 Understand gravity, stability, weight, and balance.
 Explore force, cause and effect, and systems.
 Discover properties of matter.
 Develop awareness of cycle, the interaction of materials, and change
 Understand volume and measurement
 Observe relationships between materials
 Make choices
 Make decisions

Cooking in Dramatic Play

What Your Child Learns in the Cooking Area

 To expand their vocabulary and language.

 Gain knowledge of geometry and spatial awareness.

 Develop patterning skills.

 Experiment with measurement.

 See life science in action.

 Conduct physical science investigations.

 To appreciate other cultures and how they live.

 Solve problems using number concepts.

What are we learning and how are we doing it?

Mission Statement

Curriculum

Learning Centers

What are we learning and how are we learning it?

Literacy

What are we learning and how are we learning it?

Art

Music and Movement

Library Center

What are we learning and how are we learning it?

Outside Play, Fresh Air and Sunshine

Science and Discovery

What we are learning and how we are learning it?

Literacy - Small Groups

Literacy - Small Groups

Literacy - Small Groups

Math - Small Groups

Literacy - Small Groups

Literacy - Small Groups

What are we learning and how are we learning it?

Sensory Play

Cooking in Dramatic Play

Miss Jeannette

Miss Joelene

PlayGround Photos