Nursery School Curriculum

SOCIALIZATION IS PARAMOUNT

…Motherly teachers ease the transition from home to school
…Children are helped to internalize rules fro safety, sharing and cooperating

EMOTIONAL GROWTH – SELF IMAGE PROGRAM

…Children greeted warmly each day
…Growth charts, hand prints, body paintings individualize child’s image
…Body image and body concept material to teach laterality (precedes concepts involving directions, i.e. top, bottom, up, down concepts used in preparation for reading.

LARGE MUSCLE SKILLS

…Large Muscle play on climbing apparatus
…Tricycles and wagons

SMALL MUSCLE SKILLS

…Art: Experimentation: All Media: easel and table painting, pasting, collages, coloring, clay, play dough, finger painting, sponge and string painting
…Cutting: (for fine muscle development needed for writing skills)
…Fringing: requires less leverage with scissors
…Cutting corners on a square to make a circle …Manipulating small table toys – fitting and assembling our large selection of table toys
…Self help – buttoning, zipping, fastening and buckling

MUSIC

…Singing songs
…Rhythmic activities (clapping, interpretive movement, using rhythm instruments)
…Activity records for sensory-motor development BLOCK BUILDING
…Unit block building – to develop balance and learn elementary math
…Creativity encouraged with block accessories – ramps, wooden people, farm and zoo animals, trucks and airplanes

DRAMATIC PLAY

…Self expression in our Family Centers

SAND BOX PLAY

LANGUAGE STIMULATING PROGRAM

…Developing a large expressive vocabulary by listening to and discussing stories, finger plays, reciting nursery rhymes

SCIENCE

…Observing weather and changes of season, simple experiments, magnets, planting seeds, growing plants

READING AND MATH READINESS

…After orientation to school – an individual assessment of what each child knows
…Recognition that each child has his own “time-table” – learning without pressure
…Recognition and drawing of shapes, circles, square, rectangle
…Colors taught
….Teaching value of numerals through play (simple math sets) and art
…Individually working on numeral and letter recognition only if child is ready