Preschool Program
The Preschool program at Creative Kids Club offers the child the opportunity to explore answers through exploration and guidance. By the time a child reaches the Preschool program, it is expected that they have mastered toilet skills. Creative Kids Club provides nap time cots, books, toys, an AM and PM snack, and a dily lunch as part of the child's tuition.
3 to 4 years
- Emotional Development
- Identify and deal with feelings and emotions appropriate to developmental level
- Develop curiosity and the need to explore and investigate anything new
- Execute routine independent of caregiver's direction, most of the time
- Sometimes a leader, sometimes a follower
- Work alone, in small groups and in large groups as occasion requires
- Social Development
- Begin to understand relationships and responsibilities of others
- Begin to understand differences among people and families
- Participate in a group and learn the give and take of play
- Enjoy being with other children
- Begin to understand that self and others change
- Understand that parental figures care for home and family
- Work and play cooperatively with other children and adults
- Physical Development
- Perform simple motor skills (hopping, jumping and walking)
- erform simple gymnastics with supervision
- Use equipment like swings and other resources for large muscle development
- Start developing eye-hand coordination
- Catch a large ball from a distance of 5-8 feet
- Throw a ball from a distance of 4-6 feet
- Roll a large ball to target
- Practice ball skills
- Practice simple motor skills in games and activities
- Balance on one foot for 5 seconds and hop 4 times on each foot
- Use fine motor coordination skills (cutting, pasting and stringing small beads)
- Use fine motor skills that enable the child to grasp and use a crayon appropriately
- Copying a circle, diagonal lines, vertical lines and horizontal lines
- Paint with a large paintbrush on a large piece of paper
- Assemble a 6-10 piece puzzle
- Develop hand-eye coordination
- Push pegs into a pegboard
- Lace following a sequence of holes
- Use crayon or pencil with control within a defined area
- Connect a dotted outline to make a shape
- Reproduce simple shapes
- Follow a series of dot-to-dot numerals to form an object
- Use scissors with control to cut along a straight line and a curved line
- Use fine motor skills to string on ten small beads
- Develop finger strength and dexterity
- Cognitive Development
- Understand a few opposites (in/out, up/down, open/closed, stop/go)
- Understand some directional words (in, out, over, under, on, off, top)
- Recognize and name concrete objects in the environment
- Do basic classifying tasks (shape, size or color)
- Pay attention and concentrate on a task for at least ten minutes
- Demonstrate use of basic cause and effect reasoning, some of the time
- Describe a simple object using color, size, composition, shape and use
- Identify and name a circle, triangle, square, rectangle and diamond
- Recognize and name primary colors (red, yellow and blue)
- Participate in simple discussion
- Initiate a conversation on a familiar topic or event
- Listen and follow a series of two oral directions
- Speak in four to six word sentences
- Ask simple questions (who, what, where and why)
- Identify common sounds
- Give personal information (full name, gender and age)
- Participate in group discussions
- Describe a picture with three statements
- Auditory recognition of words that begin with the same letter
- Associate a letter with its sound in spoken words
- Reading Readiness
- Recognize and repeat simple rhymes, songs and finger plays of 4 lines
- Describe an action being represented by a picture in a story
- Listen to short stories and simple poems
- Identify what is missing from a picture
- Express an interest in learning and in the printed word
- Assemble pictures by time sequence to tell a story
- Predict what will happen next in a story
- Compose an original story by dictation
- Retell a short story in their own words
- Identify most upper case and lower case letters
- Science
- Demonstrate an accurate sense of touch, smell and taste
- Point to, identify and tell the function of the parts of the body
- Have a basic understanding of health and good foods and their importance
- Understand that each animal needs its own kind of food and shelter
- Identify and observe some basic needs of plant life
- Learn about the animal kingdom
- Understand and respect plant and animal life and their importance
- Understand the balance of nature
- Describe foods by taste
- Math
- Rote count from 1 to 20
- Understand original positions first through fifth
- Recognize most numerals from 1 to 20
- Begin to understand concepts of adding and taking away
- Identify a set as a collection of objects that have a common property
- Establish one-to-one correspondence by matching members of equal sets
- Understand that each number is one more than the preceding number
- Understand some fractions
- Art, Music and Movement
- Show an increasing curiosity and sense of adventure
- Use an art medium to communicate a story or idea
- Draw a human figure with major body parts
- Participate in socio-dramatic play verbally or non-verbally
- Develop rhythm and body coordination
- Retell story through art, creative drama and music