PRE-SCHOOL

Pre-School, ages 2.5 to 4 years, is when you start to see a more regimented schedule appear, and when the curriculum starts to shift from the focus being on the child to the world around him or her.

For example, hopefully, by this age, potty training and hand washing foundation and procedures have already been learned and laid, so we don't have to spend time on that, we can spend that time flexing our attention muscles instead and learning to sit and pay attention in Circle time for longer periods. 

At this age, we will learn to work on putting puzzles together in small groups of 2-3, independently of a grown-up, while their teacher works with a different small group learning rhyming words or letter sounds.

Another example is, hopefully by the middle of their pre-school year a majority of our kiddos have learned a trick to put their own coats on so that we can focus on lining up quickly and quietly when we do our fire drills that keep everyone safe. We will learn to work on putting puzzles together in small groups of 2-3 independently of a grown-up at this age while their teacher works with a small group on learning rhyming words or letter sounds. 

This is the age when we work on transitions, going from activity to activity even when we are having so much fun and we aren't quite done, but it is time, and sometimes that can be hard!!! We are definitely still working on self-control in this age group, and learning to trust our own voice, learning to stand up for ourselves and our own needs while being respectful of others. This can be hard at any age, right? So much is happening this year!!