The pre-K room at Lakewood Child Care Center is a blend of older 4-year-olds and 5-year-olds who are usually moving to kindergarten the next fall.
In addition to building on the play-based curriculum of the preschool room, the pre-K classroom has readiness opportunities in literacy, math, science, social studies, health and safety, art, and music. Our classrooms use self-directed time in the day to allow children to choose their own activities to explore.
Among the readiness activities, our pre-K classroom works on alphabet and number recognition and awareness; phone number, address, and birthdate memorization; writing, visual and auditory skills; as well as concepts and word usage, such as opposite and rhyming words.
The teachers design the curriculum to spark the children’s recognition of their own achievements and promote their developing attitudes as “learners” using their curiosity, creativity, and initiative.
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It’s a bird, It’s a plane, it’s a SUPER PRE-Ker!
This week was so fun! We heard so many stories about a variety of super heroes! We learned a lot about different super heroes and their superpowers! For art, we worked on our own capes all week! We became super heroes ourselves! We also made a “town” with us “saving the world” from all the…
Put up the Tent!
Fire, hot dogs, s’mores! This week was all about camping. We started this week by discussing what to bring when we go camping. We came to the conclusion that we need a tent, sleeping bag, food, wood for fire and of course clothes! At nap time, we even camped out by having our friends bring…
Getting Dirty in the Garden!
What a week of dirt! We have had so much fun finding worms, ants and rolly polly bugs! Some of the friends even made homes for the bugs! They used leaves, sticks and small pieces of mulch to create “house” structures, even labeling “living room”, “kitchen” and “bedroom”. One of the homes even got a…