THE JOEYS CLASS
3 - 5 years
Pre-kindergarten classes offer activities aimed at preparing your child for kindergarten. With a balance of child and teacher directed activities, children are encouraged to develop independence and confidence. Teachers reinforce concepts that will sharpen your child’s thinking skills, preparing them for success in kindergarten and social problem-solving skills with the children.
Curriculum
Your child will be developing kindergarten readiness skills, including:
– Recognizing their names and the names of their friends
– Counting
– Identifying numbers, shapes and colors
– Developing social skills
– Beginning writing skills
– Classifying
– Learning school routines
Sample Schedule
Circle time — Morning meeting, songs, fingerplays, stories,
games
Center time — Art, fine motor, books, math, blocks, home-
living, writing, sensory table, music, science
Small Group time — teachers work with small groups of
children, teaching a variety of skills
Outdoor Play — children engage in self-directed and teacher-
directed activities to build healthy bodies
Snack — children learn table manners and conversational
skills; snack is provided
Large Group time — music and movement activities and
games
Afternoon Schedule includes:
Lunch — your child brings his/her own lunch
Rest time — usually from 1:00–2:30 pm / Quiet activities provided for children who don’t sleep
Snack — children learn table manners and conversational skills; snack is provided
Group Activity — music and movement activities and games
Outdoor Play — children engage in self-directed and teacher-
directed activities to build healthy bodies
Center time — usually with combined age group / May include
art, fine motor, books, math, blocks, home living
fine motor, art, music, blocks, books, dramatic play, nature/
science
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