Preschool 3s

The preschool class emphasizes exploration, experimentation, cooperation and creativity in a process oriented environment. Children are encouraged to explore the world around them and to interact with others in productive and cooperative ways. Activities are integrated around units of study, including colors, the community and jobs people do, the farm, the insect world, the ocean world, and seasons and holidays.

This class engages students in activities that promote development of the following skill areas:

• Creative - personal drawings; painting; mixed media crafts

• Expressive - dress up; pretend play; imaginative building

• Cognitive - cutting; drawing; number sense; shape sorting; puzzles

• Language & Literacy - story and song time; rhyming; finger play

• STEM - five senses; magnification; floating, pouring & sinking;

• Enrichment - music; cooking; science experiments Spanish