Language and Literacy: We help the children develop these skills by interaction with each other, singing songs, reading and sharing books as well as talking with them and discussing the books that we read to them after we are finished. What did they like most? Who was their favorite character? What stood out the most? Showing the pictures in the books as well as pointing out the many characters to help the children associate a face with the story helps them to learn the name and letters in the characters names as well as to remember it.
We also encourage the parents if there is a particular book that their hild has shown a strong interest in to continue with that book or series while at home. Creative Arts: The biggest bridge to learning is through self expression and art. A lot of children express themselves better through art such as coloring, painting, drawing. You can see a lot come out of a shy child Just by offering them the opportunity to draw on a piece of paper.
We make sure that every room has at least one sort of creative art thing that they do with their teacher throughout the day whether it is making a Christmas tree, painting with feathers, drawing, or Just letting them be themselves and doodle on a piece of paper. Children excel when they can express themselves and what better way than letting go with colors and a canvas. Fine Motor: Fine motor skills are developed by using their tiny hands in conjunction with their brains. We like to give them opportunities to build with blocks while in the building.
They have many different puzzles at their disposal and their teachers are always there to play with them. Building a castle with blocks and keeping it all in a line and not allowing it to fall is a great way to work on fine motor skills. Making sure that the puzzle pieces in the wooden dinosaur puzzle fit into the correct space and turning it ntil it reaches the correct position. These are all little ways that we help tune the fine motor skills. Gross Motor: We have a large outdoor activity set in the back with slides and stairs and ladders this helps to build the gross motor skills.
Running Jumping, climbing all of these things are detrimental to this development. We also have a smaller play ground on the side of the building for the smaller children that contains some smaller equipment such as cars you can sit on and kitchens and small play houses with slides. Young age children can build their gross motor by beginning on these smaller oys before adventuring out to the larger one that we have set up in the back. Self Concept: Self concept refers to awareness of their own characteristics, and of likenesses and differences between themselves and other children.
We help promote this by having the children use names. We have them call each other by name as well as the teachers by their names. We also help by making up news stories with the children in them and use their names in them when telling them, we also make up songs and use their names in them it helps each child understand that each person including themselves is an individual. For each child can be their own person. Emotional Skills/Regulation: This is the process and ability to feel and express a range of emotions and express them appropriately.
Identifying and expressing emotions verbally is the first step in learning to regulate emotions. Our teacher''s help children learn to express emotions in acceptable ways by reminding them to their words to explain what they need ("Matthew, tell David, ''I''m not done with the fire truck yet,''" or "Holly, tell Angelica, ''l dont like it when you are bossy. ''") and suggesting phrases to use in emotional situations: "I want a turn, too. " "l want to do it my way this time. "You can have it when I''m finished. " "Let''s make a list for turns. Managing emotions also includes the ability to inhibit inappropriate impulsive behavior when experiencing strong emotions and calming down enough to use problem-solving strategies. We have various places throughout our rooms especially for taking time out to calm down or I have two chairs in my office where the kids come and sit with me when they have an issue and we will sit and have a time out until they feel that they are ready to talk about the feelings that they were having in the situation and why and what we can do to fix the situation as well as how their riend might feel.
Then we have a talk with both children. We also have many learning activities where we talk about a feeling one week and explain the feeling through a particular story or activity to help the children to understand and hopefully are able to express that feeling better the next time it comes up. Social Skills: Social skills are needed for making friends in life. To make friends, a child needs to have interpersonal skills. In early childhood, this could be in the form of accepting others, showing empathy for playmates and acknowledging common interests or oals.
T ty tor a child to relate to and get along witn others will help ner develop healthy friendships and provide a basis for continued social development. A child''s attitude toward other children during playtime or school will affect whether he is approachable by peers or best avoided. We have an activity for the older kids that we found on a website called "Friendship Cards". These cards help kids from about 1st grade up to learn what a friend is as well as ask them questions about friendship and help them understand what friendship means to them as well as their friends.
They teach them key words in friendship such as special, important, interested, listen, help, encourage, and appreciate. They also explain to them about working out problems playing fair not to pester, tease, to apologize, forgive and trust each other. Mathematics: According to the National Association for the Education of Young Children, introducing the concepts of math should start when children are around three years old. While preschool children might not yet be ready to learn the practice of the math skills, they can gain a basic idea of the practice through language and practice.
One of the activities that we use for the kids here in the 3 yr old age group is the how far can you Jump test. We have the kids all line up. Then when they are ready we let them all stand in a line and Jump as far as they can. Then we take a tape measure and measure how far they Jumped. Another activity for the same age group is that we talk about dinosaurs and how big they are then we will talk about the size and show them with a measurement on the floor how big they are. The kids like to lay down next to the marks on the ground and see how small they are compared to the size of the dinosaur.
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