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Programs
The following components of the State of Connecticut approved Pre-School Curriculum are incorporated into the program design. Each class offered builds on the prior class, but provides sufficient opportunities for review.
Personal and Social Development
Content Standard: provide children with opportunities to participate in and exhibit self-control in group situations.
Physical Development
Content Standard: provide children with opportunities to engage in a wide variety of gross-motor activities that are child selected and teacher initiated; provide children with opportunities to use a variety of materials that promote eye-hand coordination and small-muscle development.
Cognitive Development
Content Standard: provide children with opportunities to organize and express their understanding of common properties and attributes of things; provide children with opportunities to listen with understanding to directions, conversations and stories; provide children with opportunities to use different forms of writing such as drawing, letter-like forms, invented spelling and conventional forms.
Creative Expression/Aesthetic Development
Content Standard: provide children with opportunities to exhibit curiosity about and explore how materials function and affect the senses; provide children with opportunities to create (imagine, experiment, plan, make, evaluate, refine and present/exhibit) works that express or represent experiences, ideas, feelings and fantasy using various medial; provide children with the opportunities to represent fantasy and real-life experiences through pretend play.
Creative Expression/Aesthetic Development continued.
Content Standard: provide children with opportunities to engage in musical and creative movement activities; provide children with opportunities to describe or respond to their own creative work or the creative work of others;
The instructors of each class will work collaboratively to create a sequential curriculum for the 2 year old, 3 year old and the 4 to 5 year old group of participants.
In summary, the following
skills, enhancements and factors are presented: 1) Physical Skills - gross and fine motor skills; coordination;
dexterity; and visual tracking ability; 2) Social Skills - awareness of others;
ability to work with others in a group; and social interaction; 3) Cognitive Enhancements - impulse
control; attention span; and task planning and orientation; 4) Language Skills - expressive and
receptive communication; and 5) Psychological
Factors - emotional stability; self-esteem; body image; and reduced level
of anxiety.