Our Standards for Development

At our preschool, your child will do more than play. He/she will be learning and developing in many areas. The teachers, director, and administrator have all been trained in the Wisconsin Model of Early Learning Standards. These standards are expectations of development in a typically developing child from age 2 to Pre-Kindergarten/First Grade.

By focusing on these standards, your child will get a great head start in First-Grade Readiness. We encourage parents to take advantage of our award-winning ABC Mouse program for preschool ages 2-3, and to continue that program for their child's K4 and K5 years. This will give every child the BEST START to being prepared to enter First Grade in any school- public, private or parochial!! Of course, we also focus on God and His daily guidance, love, and watch care over the children. Our daily schedule of play, learning times, and activities, using the tools of books, art supplies, learning toys, and themes, will all be focused on growth in your child in the following areas.

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Approaches to Learning

  • The child displays curiosity, risk-taking, and willingness to engage in new experiences.
  • Exhibits persistence and flexibility.
  • Engages in meaningful learning through attempting, repeating, experimenting, refining, and elaborating on experiences and activities.
  • Demonstrates understanding of rules and social expectations.

Social and Emotional Development

  • The child expresses a wide range of emotions.
  • Understands and responds to others’ emotions.
  • Develops positive self-esteem.
  • Demonstrates attachment, trust, and autonomy.
  • Engages in social interactions and plays with others.
  • Experiences a variety of routines, practices, and languages.
  • Demonstrates self-awareness.
  • Engages in social problem-solving behavior and learns to resolve conflict.

Physical Development and Health

  • The child moves with strength, control, balance, coordination, locomotion, and endurance.
  • Engages in imaginative play and inventive thinking through interactions with people, materials, and the environment.
  • Exhibits eye-hand coordination, strength, control, and object manipulation.
  • Demonstrates a healthy lifestyle, self-help.
  • Exhibits physical needs such as sleeping, bathroom requirements, and eating.

Social Studies and Knowledge

  • The child learns within the context of his/her family and culture.
  • Uses senses to take in, experience, integrate and regulate responses to the environment.

Mathematical Knowledge and Skills

  • The child demonstrates an understanding of numbers and counting.
  • Understands number operations and relationships.
  • Uses the attributes of objects for comparison and patterning.
  • Understands the concept of measurement.
  • Collects, describes, and records information using all senses.
  • Explores, recognizes, and describes shapes and spatial relationships.

Scientific Knowledge and Skills

  • The child uses various learning styles.
  • Includes verbal/linguistic, bodily/kinesthetic, visual/spatial learning.
  • Additional interpersonal, and intrapersonal skills.
  • Uses observation to gather information.
  • Hypothesizes and makes predictions.
  • Forms explanations based on trial and error, observations, and explorations.
  • Uses multi-sensory abilities to process information.
  • Applies problem-solving skills.
  • Uses tools to gather information, compares observed objects and seeks answers to questions through active investigation.

Creative Arts

  • The child engages in imaginative play and inventive thinking through interactions with people, materials, and the environment.
  • Expresses himself or herself creatively through music, movement, and art.

Language and Literacy Development

  • The child follows directions of increasing complexity.
  • Understands new meanings as memory increases.
  • Uses gestures and movements (non-verbal) to communicate.
  • Uses vocalizations and spoken language to communicate.
  • Shows appreciation of books and understands how print works.
  • Develops the ability to detect, manipulate or analyze the auditory parts of spoken language.
  • Understands that the alphabet represents the sounds of spoken language and letters of written language.
  • Uses writing to represent thoughts or ideas.

English Language Development

  • The child listens and responds to communication with others.
  • Derives meaning through listening to communications of others and sounds in the environment.

DAILY SCHEDULE

6:00 - 8:30 am Arrival/ Free Play Time
9:00 - 9:15 am Calendar and Circle Time (based on our theme)
9:15 - 9:45 am Class 1 and Class 2
9:45 - 10:00 am Snack Time / Bathroom & Handwashing
10:00 - 10:30 am Recess Time - Outdoors or in the Gym
10:30 - 11:00 am Class 3 and Class 4
11:00 am - 12:00 pm Free Play - Learning / Play Centers
12:00 am - 12:30 pm Lunch/ Handwashing Time
12:30 - 2:00 pm Nap Time
2:00 - 3:00 pm Free Play - Learning / Play Centers
3:00 - 3:30 pm Clean Up / Handwashing /Snack Time
3:30 - 4:00 pm Recess Time– Outdoors or in the Gym
4:00 - 6:30 pm Learning/ Play Centers– Small Group

 

  • Note: Classes 1, 2, 3, and 4 include: Letters, Numbers, Shapes & Colors, Art, Music, Bible, Opposites, Does It Belong?, God’s World, Social Studies, Science, Pre-Writing Skills, Same or Different?, and Thinking Skills.
  • These classes are rotated daily, so that each week, the child has been taught concepts from each of these subjects.