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The Little Learners Program is geared toward social
interaction, daily routines and structure, and expansion of
speech and language. Children are challenged physically and
verbally with sophisticated projects. Classroom experiences
will be used to increase imagination and creativity within
major subject areas such as language, mathematics, science,
social studies, art, music, drama, and dance.
The children will begin refining their motor skills and
spending more time on cognitive, language, and social
emotional development. Their vocabulary will enhance and
conversational speech will be challenged. Little Learners
also are taught to express their emotions such as fear,
anger, sadness, love, and happiness using their words. They
will strive to be more independent with daily routines and
self awareness.
All experiences are balanced between teacher directed and
child directed activities with a harmonious balance between
passive and active activities. In addition the Little
Learners will begin the early stages of writing along with
an introduction to simple homework assignments. Homework is
designed to bring child and parent together to discuss and
explore what the child has been learning throughout their
day. It is never looked at for accuracy or neatness. It is
used purely as a learning enhancing tool to bring parents
and children together for some quality time after a day of
separation from each other.
Little Learners also engage in Reading Response Journals
that allow the children to respond artistically and verbally
to children’s literature. After the children are read a
story they are given an open ended question to respond to in
their journals. They are asked to draw a picture and then
their verbal response is recorded using the Language
Experience Approach in the journal touching upon the
Balanced Literacy Curriculum. This opportunity allows the
children to expand their thinking and reasoning skills along
with their comprehension skills.
In addition to Reading Response Journals, mathematics is
introduced in their Math Journals. This simple math is
another strategy for number and shape recognition with the
beginning stages of counting and writing numbers. |
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