![]() ![]() I love ‘the whole brain child’ method of empathy, respect, and autonomy for dealing with emotional challenges in preschoolers. Our days will have a strong emphasis on art (dance, music, art) but will always be flexible and largely child-led. We love mixing reggio, montessori, and traditional styles of learning for young children. We will end our day with free-play at our reggio-inspired play stations, while parents pick up. we will learn about the elements of art (line, shape, pattern, texture, color, form) and how to use these elements and techniques to express their innate desire to communicate visually. ![]() While crafting and free art expression are always available to the kids at any moment of the day, this is an actual age-appropriate art class that teaches children how to see and express their world in visual form. ![]() This is one of the things I am so passionate about, and so excited to share with our little ones! we are converting our living room into a movement space (photos to come!) complete with mirrors and barre for ballet.ĪRT: after all that fun, we will enjoy a snack and learn real art technique (with inclusive art history sprinkled in, focusing on artists outside the traditional dead white guys we all know about ). Our preschoolers will learn about the scientific method and make their own hypothesis and conclusions.ĭANCE/MUSIC: we'll get our bodies moving again with dance and music (ballet/tap/jazz for dance, and percussion/piano/singing for music). This is a great opportunity for the big kids to help mentor little ones, and ‘teach back’ what they have learned about their experiment to the littles. ![]() SCIENCE: Then we get to see what the big kids have created with their biology/physics/chemistry science experiments! we have purchased NOEO science for our elementary and middle school boys, which include many real science experiments with actual equipment. children may choose to fall asleep, or stay awake and have quiet introvert time to regroup after such hard play.įRENCH IMMERSION: we'll get our brains working again with french immersion (through one-third stories and a short 15 minute french immersion muzzy program), and mentorship from the big kids who are both fluent in french. each child will have their own space to lay down with a weighted blanket, an eye mask to cover eyes (if they choose), and a quiet meditation will play that is geared for young children. LUNCH, QUIETTIME: We'll come in for lunch all together, (packed by parents) and then we'll transition our big energy to quieter energy with story time and quiettime/meditation/naptime. They will be inclusive, educational, thought-provoking, and tie into the ‘subjects’ (like math and pre-reading/writing skills) that we are learning through play. Our books/play for preschool will be ‘themed’ based each week, some examples include: the universe, emotions/mental health, our community, countries around the world, women in history, etc. We are utilizing the entire set of BOB books for reading, and teaching writing skills through art and sensory play. Our goal for this year is to get all preschoolers to recognize, write, and sound out letters, and develop reading skills. I love mixed-age learning environments, because it gives everyone a chance to be a mentor or a mentee, teaches patience and empathy, develops responsibility in the older groups, and gives the younger groups something to aspire to. In the above day choreography (because lets be real, it’s all more of a dance than a schedule, am i right?) you can see that preschool has one schedule (on the left) the boys have their own schedule for independent learning (on the right), but we come together for some multi-age learning which is designated in italics in the middle. Upon arrival and after temp checks and hand washing, we will start with yoga circle time and pre-reading/writing skills, while the big boys (my sons: Tavish age 12, and Pierson age 10) go to their independent learning stations in our study room. ![]()
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