Early Preschool
3 years-old
Our preschool teachers provide a safe and healthy environment that aids our children in developing their social-emotional, fine and gross motor, language, literacy, mathematical, and cognitive skills. To promote language further, teachers guide the students to work on back and forth exchanges with their peers during daily circle time and small group activities.
The Creative Curriculum for Preschool is based on five fundamental principles.
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Positive interactions and relationships with adults provide a critical foundation for successful learning.
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Social-emotional competence is a significant factor in school success.
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Constructive, purposeful play supports essential learning.
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The physical environment affects the type and quality of learning interactions.
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Teacher-family partnerships promote developmental learning.
60 minutes of indoor and outdoor play
All meals and snacks included
Developmental Milestones
Social/Emotional
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Copies adults and friends
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Understands the idea of “mine,” “his,” and “hers”
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Demonstrates concern about the feeling of others
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Begins to take turns
Language/Communication
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Follows instructions with 2 or 3 steps
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Understands words like “in,” “on,” and under
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Says first name, age and gender
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Carries a conversation using 2 to 3 sentences
Cognitive
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Begins to solve problems without trying every possibility
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Begins to draw or construct, and then identify what it is
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Begins to tell about experiences in order, and evaluate the experience
Movement/Physical Development
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Moves purposely from place to place with control
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Begins to use small, precise finger and hand movements
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Walks up and down stairs, one foot on each step
