Wesleyan Preschool - Program For 4 Year-Olds
Social and Emotional Skills
- Building independence
- Sharing
- Taking turns
- Resolving peer conflicts
- Working cooperatively
- Creating play environments
- Developing creativity through social interaction
- Handling disappointment
- Socializing with classmates
- Learning and showing empathy
- Developing and using kindness to others
- Cleaning up
- Organizing supplies
- Listening to others
- Following directions
Readiness Skills
- Alphabet recognition
- Color recognition and exploration
- Rhyming
- Sequencing
- Phonetic awareness
- Recognizing classmates names
- Left to right progression
- Use of basic concepts in activities
- Counting to 30
- Number recognition to 20
- Shape recognition
- Simple patterns
- Sorting and classifying
- Graphing
- Predicting and estimating
- Measurement
- Problem solving
- Calendar skills
Literacy Development
- Picture books
- Non-fiction
- Experience stories
- Print rich classrooms
- Making charts
- Book making
- Writing Center
- Songs
- Poetry
- Poetry and song notebook
- Finger Plays
Motor Skills
- Name writing
- Letter and numeral stamping
- Letter and numeral writing in a variety of ways
- Cutting
- Playdough
Community Awareness
- Field trips
- Dentist visit
- Community helper visits
- Holiday programs
- Giving and sharing days
- Class presentations
5-Day Program for 4 Year-Olds
Our 5 day program follows the same curriculum as our three day program plus adds further enrichment in all areas of curriculum. Additional areas of study include:
- Continents Unit
- Measurement Unit
- Creation of Terrarium
- Graphing Unit
- Solar System Unit
- Weather Unit
- Five Senses Unit
- Additional field trips