Experienced, qualified teachers present a curriculum designed to improve social skills, enhance cognitive and kindergarten readiness skills and encourage creative development. St. Paul’s Preschool applies a balanced approach which includes both teacher directed and child initiated learning with an emphasis on understanding and responding to children’s learning styles and building on their strengths and interests.
A young child’s cognitive skills are strengthened by engaging in a wide range of hands-on activities, enhancing their ability to reason, problem solve and understand concepts.
- Activities to encourage listening, comprehension and expressive language skills
- Letter knowledge
- Phonological awareness
- Rhymes
- Chants
- Early writing
- Book knowledge
- Print awareness
- Vocabulary development
- Activities, games and puzzles to build children’s understanding of numbers
- Number sense
- Operations
- Graphs
- Patterns
- Geometry
- Measurement
- Structure
- Science activities encourage questions, observations, hypotheses and analysis
- Age appropriate science activities
- Methods
- Hypothesis
- Observations
- Discovery
Fine Arts:
Social and emotional:
- Strengthen socialization skills
- Share
- Contribute
- Compromise
- Be respectful of others
- Problem-solve
- Gain a sense of self
- Explore
- Play with her peers
- Complete tasks independently
- Build confidence
Motor Skills:
- Opportunities to improve Gross and Fine motor skill development and build their hand-eye coordination and balance
- Run
- Climb
- Ride bikes
- Play active games
- Threading beads
- Cutting with scissors
- Writing and drawing
- Manipulate tools and materials
- Daily living skills
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