KidsFirst Teachers build their curriculum focused on hands-on exploration and discovery to foster lifelong critical thinking skills and confidence. Through strong teacher/child interactions, planned age-appropriate schedules and hands-on activities, children acquire a love of learning. KidsFirst Preschool and Pre-K teachers are focused on giving the children the building blocks they need to start kindergarten. Here are the results that parents can expect at KidsFirst:
Social and Emotional Development. Children will:
Recognize and understand the emotions of other children
Ask for help when needed
Share stories from personal experiences
Offer to share toys
Approaches Towards Learning. Children will:
Ask questions and seek out answers
Follow classroom routines
Dress independently
Continue to work on a puzzle, even though it is difficult
Physical Well-Being and Motor Development. Children will:
Pump their legs to make a swing go higher
Throw and catch a ball
Run around objects on the playground
Jump up without falling
Cognition and General Knowledge. Children will:
Tell their teacher about their weekend and family plans
Create an elaborate pretend house with other children; have dinner together and play games
Count to 20 or higher
Recognize one-to-one correspondence and count the number of blocks in a tower
Count the number of boys and girls in the room
Help sort blocks by size and color
Start to draw shapes and recognize shapes in the room
Language and Literacy. Children will:
Demonstrate understanding of increasingly complex concepts and longer sentences
Use language to communicate in a variety of ways with others to share observations, ideas and experiences; problem-solve
Ask and answer questions about stories
Reason, predict and seek new information
Identify characters and major events in a story
Actively engage in group reading with purpose and understanding
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