Preschool Room Daily Schedule
9:00-10:00am Morning activity
10:00-10:25am Judaic/ Davening Circle
10:25am Snack/ Bathroom
10:45-11 : 00am Morning Routing Circle
11:00-11:45am Outdoor play
11:45am Curriculum Learning
12:00pm Lunch
12:30pm Storytime
Hot lunch is served weekly on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday
Preschool Room Curriculum Overview
1. Developing Sense of Self
- Children are able to label and regulate their own feelings
- Children feel comfortable seeking help from adults
- Children can form significant trusting relationships with adults
- Able to handle new situations and changes in routine
- Learn to handle various social environments
- Children show an understanding in choice
- Feel comfortable participating in group activities
- Able to recognize and keep track of their individual belongings
- Show respect for their school environment
- Children are willing to clean up after themselves with a lessening amount of supervision.
- Children will learn a sense of individuality & independance.
2. Strengthening Gross and Fine Motor Function
- Able to perform locomotor skills such as running, jumping and hopping
- Further develop balancing abilities
- Capable of climbing over and under things with ease
- Developing their throwing, rolling and catching skills
- Exhibit self-care skills ( feeding, dressing)
- Demonstrates good hand washing skills
- Able to show increasing control over small item manipulations
- Mimic writing in play and produce some recognizable patterns
3. Socioemotional Development
- Begin to understand and name their feelings in themselves and others
- Learn how to wait turns and to share
- Develop communication skills
- Learn to cooperate in a group
- Bond with teacher(s)
- Start to develop conflict resolutions skills
4. Growing cognitive abilities
- Develop problem solving through a variety of methods
- Learn to be persistent with tasks
- Label objects by a variety of attributes
- Identify and create patterns
- Participate in pretend play by themselves and in groups
- Begin to understand the difference between real and imaginary
- Capable of turning thoughts into a drawing or building
- Learning to recognize the alphabet
- Start to distinguish their name and how to write it
- Foster the ability to verbalize thoughts and observations
- Promote curiosity and learning
5. Math Skills
- Start recognizing the numbers 0-10
- Learn simple math skills with representational objects
- Add and subtract with objects
6. Language Skills
- Children develop the vocabulary base to express themselves and can communicate in complete sentances
- Help develop each child’s rhyming word knowledge
- Able to follow spoken instructions
- Produce complete answers to questions
- Children feel comfortable engaging in conversation
7. Judaic Learning
- Recognize each holiday
- Children become proud to do a Mitzvah
- Know the Davening and join in circle time
- Be familiar with the symbols and routines for Shabbat