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The Four Year Old Room offers a play and language environment which also begins to introduce a Kindergarten Readiness curriculum. The children begin to learn letters and numerals as well as other age appropriate reading and math concepts. This age group will also learn to take responsibility for their actions and learn about cause and effect. While building on experiences from the previous room, this group works on concentrating for longer periods of time while engaging themselves in activities. Once again, play and language are an integral part of this program and we encourage these children to use their imagination in their play. Gross motor skills are developed through learning to hop on one foot, skip and ride the bikes on the playground. Fine motor skills are developed through working with pencils, scissors and stringing beads. A specific time is set aside for these children to visit our art room to work together on long term as well as short term projects. The teacher child ratio in this class is one teacher to eight children.
 
The Pre-kindergarten class, with a maximum of 18 children, expands on the Kindergarten readiness skills from the previous class. The children learn their letters and the sounds they make. By working on a “letter of the week” the children are provided with hands on activities regarding the specific letter. Math concepts such as graphing, more and less, and numeral recognition are introduced in this group. The children also learn important math concepts by having a calendar time each day.. Children will begin to understand different science concepts by working on themes such as nature, magnets and our bodies as well as various cooking activities. Although the curriculum is very important at this age, we recognize the importance of self select play both indoors and out. All of the children have opportunities each day to play as well as use the language skills they have developed from the previous programs. These children also have a specific time each day to visit our art room room. The teacher child ratio in this class is one to nine.