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FIVE DAY PROGRAM

The five-day program is designed for the child who is four years old and is ready for the structure of a regular school week. The class is made up of those children who are not old enough to enter Kindergarten and those who are old enough, but not ready for the demands of a Kindergarten class. This five-day program has a morning session and an afternoon session. They meet for two and a half-hours Monday through Friday.


The five-day program provides more exposure in all areas of the school curriculum.
The children learn through hands-on experiences.
Some paper and pencil activities in language during the second half
of the school year is provided.


A typical five-day class will include the following activities in its daily schedule:
      Free Play, Circle Time, Art, Snack, Language Discussion, and Math Activities.

During the week the children are scheduled for Sensorimotor three days a week for fifteen minutes in the Green Room with a Sensorimotor teacher. The children gather for formal Music once a week. Several classes are grouped together in one of the classrooms for this activity. The school has a Science Cart that has different age-appropriate activities each month. Each class is scheduled to use these activities once a week.

Free Play - A block of time is set aside each day for the children to play in an area of their choice. Puzzles, blocks, housekeeping, dress-up, dolls, and a water table are a few of the things that the children may choose.

Circle Time - The children will talk about the calendar, dress a weather bear, sing favorite songs and do fingerplays, share items that have been brought in by individual children, and hear stories.

Art Project - Each child will participate in an art activity every day. Free expression is encouraged. Some of the projects that the children experience will not be brought home; for example: shaving cream finger-painting on the tabletops.

Snack Time - A snack will be provided each day. Birthday treats may be sent in as the snack that day. Throughout the year, the children will be involved in simple cooking projects: making soup, muffins, cakes, and cutting out cookies.

Learning with letters - The five-day program provides more time for the children to spend on individual areas of study. At the beginning of the year the children will be introduced to two alphabet letters a week. Both the capital and the lower case form of the letter are discussed. The children will hear individual stories for each of the letter, and they will be introduced to the letter’s sound. In January the children will fill in individual books on each one of the letters. Forming the letters and matching sounds will be stressed more during the second half of the year.

Math - The five day program will go over all of the basic math concepts of the regular four-year old class: comparisons, measuring, sets, number recognition and writing 1-10, classifying, patterning, and sequencing. Daily counting, hands-on games and daily art projects will also give the children more exposure to basic math concepts.

Field trips and In-School Programs - The five day program will go on the same field trips as the four-year old classes. They will also attend all of the in-school programs.

Books - The five-day class spends much time “writing” their own books. Each child is given the name of the book that they will be “writing” and the teacher writes down his/her ideas on the subject. Once the written word is finished, the children can draw a picture to go along with their individual page. When the entire class has finished, the pages are bound and sent home with each child to share with their families.

 

 

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