Preschool Transition Curriculum
Every child develops at their own pace. We use guidelines and standards developed by State and National organizations for early childhood development to help create the best age appropriate activities for the children. The Preschool transition program runs on a structured yet flexible schedule that provides opportunities for learning and developing to take place naturally. We provide free play, guided play, and structured lesson times. Early Spanish language lessons are provided for the children weekly.
Scotty’s teachers provide a multitude of activities for the children every day. We have both planned activities which you will find on your monthly calendar and non-planned activities that happen naturally throughout each day and rely on the creativity of the teachers to enhance every day happenings into teachable moments.
Planned activities follow our monthly curriculum. Our curriculum consists of a weekly theme related to child development. Some examples of our themes include “Transportation”, “My 5 Senses”, “Friendship”, “Seasons”, and “Outer Space” (just to name a few). Each day is filled with theme related activities that enhance social emotional development, cognitive and language development, as well as physical development. We do an arts and crafts project every day. Art encourages the children’s development of fine motor skills with the use of paint brushes, ripping paper, gluing and finger painting. Art also encourages the children to create things and use their imaginations while learning. Early Spanish language lessons are provided for the children weekly. Our planned afternoon enrichment activity also follows our weekly theme. The activities range from fine or gross motor activities, social skill enhancement, to early science, math and technology.
Some Non-planned activities we like to do in Preschool Transition:
Sensory Table– The children in preschool transition love to play with things “hands-on”. We provide a science and sensory station with rotating theme related items for the children to enjoy throughout each day. It provides the opportunity to feel different textures, learn about different science tools, how to manipulate droppers and tweezers and much more.
Monkey See Monkey Do—The children love to copy one another at this age, so we like to make it a fun filled learning experience! This game can be used to ease children through transitional times during the day.
