Learning centers allow the children to choose the activity they want to play with. This is Green Group’s Math shelf. Here the children can choose to work on shape recognition, patterning, numerical order, matching skills and one to one correspondence.
Each classroom has a “Calm Down” space for the children to use when they are feeling sad, upset, or angry. There are calming activities, pictures of emotions to help the children name how they are feeling and breathing techniques to use. Teachers continually plan lessons on how and when to use the Calm Down Space.
Dramatic Play allows the children to develop social/ emotional skills, be creative, enhance their vocabularies and explore the role people play in society.
Sensory play allows children to problem solve and role play while engaging their tactile, olfactory, and auditory senses.
Eating meals family style allows children to develop self help skills as they pour their own milk, serve their own food and clean up their dishes. Amazing conversations happen during meal times as the children pass food, use their manners, and socialize. This is why we include lunch in our half day program.
Each morning, the children choose a job to do while at school. Having a job helps children develop a sense of belonging and responsibility for their classroom community.
The Pre-K classrooms have a specific center set up to develop literacy skills. The children are provided with many activities to develop letter recognition, writing skills, phonics, and reading skills.