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#1 Classroom Component
Our students
participate in a variety of classroom options. Children attend
either 3, 4, or 5 days per week, in either the morning session
(9:00 a.m. until 11:30 a.m.) or the afternoon session (12:30
p.m. until 3:00 p.m.) Children are grouped according to their
developmental needs. The groups are of mixed age and ability
levels.
The following
activities are part of a typical day in preschool:
- Movement Stations/Gross Motor
(balance, coordination, spatial awareness, motor planning)
- Circle (weather, calendar,
sharing, listening activities, concept development)
- Table Activities (prereadiness
skills, cognitive, fine motor and prewriting)
- Free Play
- Snack
- Story (attending, auditory
memory, sequencing, speech and language)
- Art, Music or Sensory Motor
Activity
In addition,
the children participate in weekly sensory motor group in
our large motor room.
The children
have access to computers. The computer will reinforce concepts,
prereadiness skills, visual motor and visual perceptual skills.
We use a thematic
curriculum in the early childhood classes that is determined
each year by the Massachusetts Early Learning Guidelines.
We will incorporate most classroom activities around these
themes that change frequently. The classroom teachers will
be working with the speech pathologist, occupational therapist
and physical therapist as an interdisciplinary team.
That is, they will all be working together within the classroom.
Given the limited length of the daily session, we hope to
capitalize on each available moment. We will also develop
home activities around these themes. We will provide a monthly
calendar including the curriculum themes, special activities,
and events for each week, and ideas for you to try at home.
If you have a particular activity or material that you would
like to share with us related to a particular theme, please
feel free to let us know about it.
The monthly calendar
we send home will inform you what is taking place in the early
childhood programs. It will identify special events, early
release days, birthdays, parent volunteer assignments, and
program needs (i.e. snack items and materials for special
activities). Please remember that the calendar is flexible
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#2 Family Involvement Components
We believe that
working in a partnership with parents is very important, especially
when it involves such young children. We offer several ways
for you to be involved in your child’s school experience.
Parents can participate
in the program in the following ways: (1) come in for your
child’s birthday; (2) participate in a home/school visit
to get an idea of your child’s day at preschool; (3)
parent/child pizza party in the spring; (4) prepare materials
for the classroom at home; (5) attend the end-of-the-year
celebration. When visiting, you must enter through the main
school office, sign in, and obtain a visitor’s pass.
It is our hope
that by providing these parent involvement opportunities,
we will enable you to talk to your children about experiences
that have occurred or will occur at school. We hope to teach
you the terminology and expressions that are frequently used
in our classroom.
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