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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This week focused on numbers in every activity. At group time, we discussed that numbers are everywhere we are. We did a number hunt in the classroom, asking a friend to find a number. Many friends found numbers on classroom signs, and one pointed to numbers on the clock. We did many different number recognition…
Nursery Rhyme
Nursery Rhyme week has been so busy with all the stories and rhymes we have read! We heard so many “old” rhymes and we also heard “new” Nursery Rhymes because everything gets modernized these days! For art, we made Jack and Jill’s water from their pail, the itsy bitsy spider, a lamb from Mary’s herd…
Exploring Community Helpers
Doctors, nurses, fire fighters and even teachers are all community helpers! This week we talked about different community helpers and even had parents come in to tell us about their jobs. Our parents have some pretty cool jobs such as doctors, nurses, feelings specialist and a chef just to name of few. We appreciate all…