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LITTLE KIDS PLACE PRE-SCHOOL PRORAM

The early years are the time to build a strong foundation in all developmental areas. Meeting specific milestones in all five domains of development and learning helps preschoolers establish behaviors and skills that will make them successful.

1. COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENTAL SKILLS IN PRESCHOOLERS

Cognitive development pertains to skills regarding learning and thinking. It is not remembering facts and trivia. Cognitive skills include:

  • asking questions
  • developing an increased attention span
  • problem solving
  • visual discrimination, matching, comparing, sorting, and organizing
  • understanding fact and fiction (or the difference between a truth and a lie)
  • understanding cause and effect
  • simple reasoning

Preschoolers are full of questions. They love to collect things. Preschoolers also like to practice the same thing again and again, and love hearing the same story told multiple times. They love taking risks and trying new things.

These are efforts in developing their cognitive abilities. Whether in formal schooling or playing at home, Little Kids Academy embraces and encourages these characteristics.

2. PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENTAL SKILLS FOR PRESCHOOLERS

Physical development skills are an important part of any preschool program. Little Kids Academy program include skills like:

  • Muscle control, balance, and coordination (climbing ladders, opening doors, and putting on coats)
  • Body awareness (sitting next to a friend rather than in her lap)
  • Wellness, rest, exercise, health, and nutrition (healthy lifestyles and living)
  • Self-help skills (feeding, brushing teeth, dressing, and washing hands, for example)

During the early childhood years, children learn to manage and take control of their bodies. They become more aware of what their bodies can and can’t do.

At preschool age, your child’s creative expression is increasingly purposeful and nuanced. Little Kids Academy is committed to allowing our scholars to develop their skills in a creative way

Here are some of the ways you'll see their skills developing:

  • Discover that they can place blocks or make marks on paper in a way that represents an object’s features.
  • Draw recognizable shapes, such as circles, ovals, rectangles, triangles, crosses, and combinations of these shapes.
  • Begin creating with a specific intention — wanting to draw a man or build a firehouse.
  • Acquire a sense of ownership of his creations.
  • Attempt to use graphic symbols to represent objects.
  • Respond to an accidental slip of the marker or drips from the brush by incorporating them into the story or the drawing: “Then it began to rain — see the drops of purple rain? Then ...”
  • Visually represent particular emotions, such as joy, sadness, and anger.

3. SOCIAL / EMOTIONAL DEVELOPMENT SKILLS FOR PRESCHOOLERS

Social and emotional development for preschoolers covers a wide range of skills, such as:

  • Regulating one’s own behavior and emotions
  • Developing friendships with other children and healthy relationships with adults
  • Creating a positive personal identity (liking oneself and building confidence, for example)
  • Developing a working memory, curiosity for the world, and persistence
  • Participating and engaging in learning

Children are naturally social and curious. They are also packed full of big emotions and need help navigating their feelings and learning how to react and respond in social situations.


4. LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENTAL SKILLS FOR PRESCHOOLERS

We know that children are naturally social, so they need the skills to be able to communicate their ideas and feelings. Language skills for preschoolers include:

  • Foundational emergent reading skills (concepts of print, phonemic awareness, and phonics)
  • Emergent writing (developmentally appropriate drawings, dictated storied and messages, beginning letter formations)
  • Speaking and listening (participating in conversations, asking and answering questions, describing things, adding details, speaking audibly, clearly, and in complete sentences)

It’s important to include language development in any preschool program because language skills have a direct impact on reading and writing success.

Even though children don’t need to learn how to read until they are in kindergarten or first grade, Little Kids Academy believe reading to our scholars every day is critical . Doing so we assist in developing their speech skills, teaching appropriate pronunciation and articulation, as well as exposing them to important emergent reading and writing skills that will prepare a way for them to learn how to read and write with ease once they enter elementary school.


5. SELF-HELP / ADAPTIVE DEVELOPMENTAL SKILLS FOR PRESCHOOLERS

These are self-help skills needed for daily living. They include things like:

  • dressing
  • brushing teeth and brushing hair
  • feeding oneself
  • toileting and washing

Included in the self-help / adaptive domain are any skills needed for daily living. These are skills that will help your child to be more independent and self-sufficient.

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