Learning Best Through Play

  • Simple Bible stories and truths, prayer, Nativity Play

  • Calendar, including the seasons, days of the week, and months of the year

  • Color identification, mixing colors

  • Painting with fingers, brushes, and sponges

  • Letter identification, letter sounds, tracing uppercase letters, recognize first letter of name and first name

  • Listening to a story, asking questions 

  • Speaking - asking and answering questions, singing songs and fingerplays

  • Science - seasons, freezing and melting, holidays, planting, experimenting, baking, and 5 senses

  • Social Studies - our families, how we move

  • Number identification, counting to 10 (forward and backwards), counting objects with one to 1 correspondence, tracing numbers

  • Shape identification, building and creating with shapes, using manipulatives

  • Sensory exploration

  • Sorting objects by color and shape, patterning

  • Weather, charting and graphing, identifying what is appropriate to wear

Motor Skills

§  Fine-motor activities, which are important for writing, grasping, and coordinating fine movements, include age appropriate grasp, cutting, coloring (copying correct coloring per example), playing with playdough, and gluing.

§  Gross motor skills are often worked on during outside play and may involve using playground equipment, running, jumping, kicking a ball to a partner, hopping on one foot, pedaling a tricycle and using playground equipment and balls

·         Social and School-Readiness Skills - how to function in a group setting, with an emphasis on such behaviors as sharing, turn-taking, cooperative play, transitioning from one activity to the next, walking in a line, how to clean up toys and supplies, and following classroom rules.

  • Self-care skills - putting on their own shoes and coats, feeding themselves, blowing their nose, washing and drying hands, and using the bathroom independently.

During any given day, preschoolers may take part in:

  • Field trips designed to enhance a lesson, such as a trip to the firehouse to learn about safety or a visit to a nature trail to learn about God’s creation

  • Sessions with special guest speakers who are brought in to provide more details to a lesson, such as a police officer to talk about safety or a dentist to discuss oral health

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