Here is what your child will be doing each day at Discovery Learning Home Preschool.
8:00-8:20 Welcome
Students will arrive and spend some time looking at books and working with puzzles. This quiet morning will help students make the transition to school as they greet me and each other.
8:20-8:40 Morning Circle Time
We will sing songs, go over the days of the week, review what we did the last time we were together, go over colors, numbers and letters of the day and read a specially selected picture book.
8:40-9:30 Dramatic Play
Dramatic play or pretend cooperative play is very important for preschool children to develop language skills along with social skills. The best way to learn how to communicate with peers is to practice. I will be playing right along with them to encourage cooperation and learning.
9:30-9:40 Circle Time/Phonemic Awareness
This circle time is to encourage another level of language development by allowing children to talk about the play that they just experienced. This is also when we will spend some time developing essential phonemic awareness skills. Along with letter recognition and time spent reading, the awareness that words are made up of small sounds is an essential prereading skill.
9:40-10:20 Art/Writing
Preschool age children need to develop early writing and fine motor skills with a variety of different tools. These tools include play dough, markers, sidewalk chalk, paint, crayons, scissors and glue. This art time also helps encourage a child's natural creativity. This is also a time to work on letter identification and practice forming those letters.
10:20-10:30 Clean up/Wash hands for snack
10:30-11:00 Snack/Math
The math lesson will be taught during snack time. It has been my experience that children this age learn the best when they are eating. We will be counting, dividing, measuring, and grouping. After snack students will reinforce the skill they just learned by playing math games.
11:00-11:30 Science/ Discovery Walk
Students will practice lining up and walking in a line as they discover the out doors. We will go for short walks on the sidewalk and discover things like spiders making webs, bees making honey, snails, plants, clouds, air plains, the moon, the sun. These discussions will develop into future themes that are focused on our little group's interests.
11:30-12:00 Final Circle Time
This final circle time is a wonderful time to discuss our day. Students will take turns talking about their favorite parts of the day and sharing what they learned.
12:00 Pick up time
