Preschool 3-5 yrs: OUR MONKEYS (Preschool – PreK) and LIONS (Transition Kindergarten TK)
Coronado Prep Preschool and Transitional -Kindergarten programs are developmentally appropriate and geared to each child’s stage of learning. We provide a hands-on, supportive, non-stressful, non-competitive, nonsexist environment for active learning.
Our educational emphasis reflects all eight domains of child development: Cognition, Social and Emotional Development, Language and Literacy, Creative Arts, Mathematics, Science, Social Studies, Physical Development and Health.
We believe children learn best when they are active participants and provide ample opportunities to develop fine and gross motor, social, self-esteem and problem solving skills.
We aim to foster a love of learning in all its dimensions for learning’s own sake. We are convinced that children who love to learn will enjoy success at academic skill building throughout their formal education.
Preschoolers love to learn and are fascinated with the world around them. Our preschoolers learn literacy through vocabulary, phonemic awareness, environmental print, phonics as well as sign language and Spanish. Math, science, and nutrition are taught in the classroom as well. The preschool classroom uses Nevada early learning content standards as a curriculum guide. By using these standards the teachers will introduce subjects such as language arts, science, social studies, math, and writing.
Our year-round programing is enriched with hands-on learning experiences. September to June we explore the world around us through monthly themes and follow a biweekly format during Summer Camp.
Each theme is designed to spark the children’s curiosity, encourage questioning, reasoning and experimentation. We focus on seasonal concepts, life experiences and events; engage in projects, schedule special guests and host a myriad of celebrations to help us impart a sense of cultural diversity, community and perspective to the experiences of our Preschool and Tranistional-Kindergarteners.
“Centers” within the Center allow children to explore creative arts, drama, music and movement, storytelling, social studies, science and math in the natural world.
We reinforce the development of life skills as we encourage each child to do as much as they can for themselves ie: put on and zip up a jacket, pouring milk, using manners, washing hands at appropriate times, and demonstrating respect for others and property.
Learning continues in our outdoor classrooms. Our spacious and private, fun in the sun playground allows us to facilitate activities and observe the children interact as they run, bike, climb, race, catch and throw, observe and chart changes in the environment, dig for worms, play organized games, enact stories, tend to their garden, blow and chase bubbles or lie down and watch clouds go by
Our wonderful staff will assist your child in letter recognition, number recognition, one to one correspondence, patterning, early writing skills, and more. The children will participate in teacher facilitated lessons such as circle time, reading, writing, and math activities. The children will also be encouraged to explore the classroom centers which are strategically placed with learning toys that will encourage them to learn on an individual level through play.
The center provides a warm, nurturing and safe environment where children will learn to respect their surroundings, themselves and others. The environment is set up for co-operative play, providing a balance between active and quiet times. Activities are “hands on” so the children can create, explore and discover the world around them.
Free play is an essential part of the program. Free play will provide opportunities for art and science activities, dramatic play, water and sand play, as well as construction, manipulative toys and woodworking. The staff is trained to enhance children’s learning while encouraging social skills and fostering children’s self-esteem.
Physical Activity to enhance motor skills takes place in the classroom, outside and without side enrichment programs that come to the school. The children will be exploring the outside world with outside play time, both in the morning and afternoon (weather permitting). The children will enjoy a wonderful playground with age appropriate equipment where they can climb, run, and ride bikes on the bike track.
The goal of our preschool and transitional kindergarten program is for all the children to meet or exceed Nevada preschool standards teach reading, writing, math, science, art and social skills to assure they are well prepared for kindergarten and elementary school years. We will keep close track of the great progress your child is making by performing progress reports at least three times throughout the school year. Our goal is to ensure that every child who completes our prekindergarten program is greatly prepared for kindergarten, and this will trans-late into a life-long love of learning and education.
A sampling of our goals for our pre-kindergarten children is recognition of 30- 50 site words; knowledge of letter sounds; rhyming and word patterning; counting to 100 by ones, fives, and tens; addition and subtraction through toys; awareness of the world around them and social differences; and the knowledge of the scientific process and the ability to attempt to solve problems without teacher aid.
Lesson plans detailing the daily activities are posted in each classroom.
Preschool is a transitional age. Typically young threes see the world in terms of having their needs met. As they mature, they recognize others have needs and rights. We support our Preschoolers transition into this new dimension of awareness by modeling and reinforcing respect, responsibility and safety as common practice.
Preschoolers’ natural curiosity excites us! They use their whole body to learn; consequently, we introduce new concepts to your child utilizing auditory, visual, tactile and kinesthetic approaches. We purposefully intersperse “quiet” activities with movement activities and recognize the value of going outside regularly. In warmer months, indoor activities continue in our outdoor classroom.
Typically four year olds are ready to test their effect on the world. We guide your child through this next stage of learning, setting our expectations higher as they discover their new found abilities and independence. We model and reinforce acceptable behavior as they experiment with the power of language in all forms.
Transitional-Kindergarten is a time of questioning, reasoning and understanding. We focus on family, writing names, math, growing a garden from seed, how to illustrate and write stories, purchase goods from local stores, discuss occupations and visit with community helpers.