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All children do group fine motor work together while Preschool age student's work on their preschool packets. Most of the curriculum is created off of the groups interest to best engage them in learning. 

While your child works on their preschool work sheets, your child is learning:

· Hand over hand muscle memory

· Hearing/auditory the teacher says the letters 

· Visually seeing the letters on the page. 

We do this till the child can hold the marker on their own.

Preschool packages have 5 work sheets including:

· First name

· Number Page

· Letter Page

· Color, shape, pattern, or other activity page 

· Free coloring page

Mindful tracing activities, for example, can help the hands and eyes work together, it encourages your child to use both sides of their brain and is a fun visual activity for getting your child to strengthen their muscle memory. 

Some weeks preschool will be skipped for holiday themed crafts and activities. 

For example, we will take time to create and explore:

· Valentines 

· Spring/St. Patrick’s Day 

· The 4th of July 

· Mother’s Day

· Father’s Day

· Halloween 

· Thanksgiving 

· Christmas/Winter Holidays 

During those weeks we learn and do crafts and activities related to that theme. Then we continue the letters and numbers. 

Preschool is done through the months September to June, July and August is outside play and a break for both student and teacher. 

The reason why we wait till children are about 2 years old is the first few years of a child’s life, your child “lives” on the right side of their brain, which is more commonly known as the creative and emotional side. 

As your child gets older, we want them to transition to more left-brained thinking or logical thinking that helps them regulate their emotions, solve problems, think critically and complete harder tasks like reading, writing and math. 

From birth to about 2 years old is the time when we let them grow and explore the environment in a play structure way that helps foster their growth and development in all domains.

Preschool Goals:

· To keep focus and sit in chair for up to 5 minutes while doing a learning activity.

· Learning to sit in a chair for 5 to 10 mins

· Learning to hold a marker alligator grip - fine motor

· Learning to say and identify letters A through Z - cognitive development

· Learning to say and identify numbers 0 through 25 - cognitive development

· Learning to say and identify colors and shapes - cognitive development

Structured Play Goals: 

· Learning to be safe

· Learning to play with others

· Learning to share and take turns

· Learning to follow directions

· Learning to build cognitive brain skills

- Learning fine and large motor skills 

Gross Motor

This is one of the most basic of the domains that your child is already learning. In the simplest terms, this is when your child learns how to use the big muscle groups in their body. While your child either is learning to crawling or has moved on to walking, there are always more gross motor skills to be learned. Participating in active games and playing sports are just a couple of ways these skills can be obtained while your child is attending childcare and preschool.

Fine Motor

Children have to learn how to control their muscle movement in their hands in order to obtain hand-eye coordination and more. There are specific ways we do this in the classroom such as having your child use coloring with small and large markers, play with Legos, play-dough, draw pictures and more. These skills can turn into more advanced skills later on in life like knitting or playing the guitar.

Language

While we are sure you have been working with your child so that he/she knows how to recognize the letters of the alphabet or even read shorter words, this is one domain that takes a while to perfect. We like to read to the children and also speak to them as often as possible so that they can learn to communicate their wants, needs, opinions and more. We also sing and encourage the children to join. 

Cognitive

The cognitive domain is the one that children develop in order to understand cause and effect. This sort of skill will also aid in early math skills such as counting and recognizing patterns. Promoting Cognitive development through play like wooden puzzles, matching games, and counting games.

Social/Emotional

In order to be successful in the long run, children have to socialize. Not only does spending time with other children teach them important skills like how to share, but it also gives them the chances to develop good manners and overall behavior.

Self Help/Adaptive

One of the best things about enrolling your child in a childcare and preschool is that they can begin to become more independant. While they have been relying on you, the parent, since the moment they were born, they are now spending an extended amount of time away from you, meaning they have to rely on themselves (with guidence from their teachers of course). One of the most important ways children learn to help themselves is when they begin to go through potty-training, which we assist each child with when they are showing signs of interest and are developmental ready. 

Morals/Values

While we truly believe that self-respect and love is behavior that is learned from the parents, children tend to learn a lot about themselves by being exposed to the personalities and habits of others, like those in their classroom. Additionally, positive influences like the instructors at childcare and preschool can help your child to get a better grasp on the difference between what is right and wrong, as well as learning to accept those who are different from them.