Fall, Trees & Health
While playing outside, children will be encouraged to notice the seasonal changes. The colder weather will provide the motivation for independently putting on coats and other wraps. A fall scarecrow will be used to help children learn and name a total of 20 body parts. Children will be experimenting with relationship and concept grouping and rhyming words. There will be a focus on number recognition and useful ways to use numbers everyday. The children will have lots of opportunity for fine and gross motor development as they work with scissors and hop, skip, and jump like fall squirrels.
Daily activities and updates are sent directly to parents through our ProCare app.
Skill Goal Focus
A monthly personal progress plan will be written for each child each month. Teachers will be using the plan to schedule your child's activities. The teachers will mark the plans as skills are reviewed or mastered. At the end of unit, the plans will be sent home to keep parents abreast of their child's development. Focused skills will be taken from cognitive, self-help, social skills and gross and fine motor areas. Children will work on the identified skills at the level that is most appropriate to their development. If colors are identified as a focus skill, some children will be matching colors, others will be identifying colors, and others will be reading color words. Each skill will be emphasized many times throughout the year and mastery can be expected to take several months. The Personal Progress Plans are to assist the teachers in planning appropriate activities; they are not report cards and should not be used to judge the success or failure of the child. Do not feel you must "teach" identified concepts at home, but rather be aware of what we are doing so that you can take advantage of any incidental learning opportunities.