Block Play
small motor coordination, patterns and designs, build and plan, matching, size and seriation, share, cooperate, and express feelings with others
Dramatic Play
develops a self-image, cooperates with others, expresses self in another role, builds vocabulary, learns and acts out behaviors to imitate, thinking skills become abstract, learns about careers, can dress self and set up an environment.
Story Time/Music
retains information, follows story line, recognizes words, rhythms, instruments, and pictures, builds their vocabulary.
Song
learns words, melody, and different movement, follows directions, and coordination.
Climbing/Riding
planning, counting, large motor coordination, balance, socially interacts with others by taking turns.
Sand Play
planning, pouring, dumping, pushing, gathering, packing, scooping, sharing, cooperating, and small and large motor skills.
Finding Toys to play with by self or with others
making decisions about own interests and abilities, learns to play withto share, asks for help, dealing and managing with conflict, others or self and expresses needs.
Putting Toys Away
follows directions, sorting, vocabulary, and taking turns.
Skills Learned in Home Childcare
Each Child Will Also Have the Opportunities to:
Develop a healthy, positive sense of self
Experience success through developmentally appropriate activities
Have stories read to them each day and have opportunities for play reading - developing a love of books at an early age
Prepare themselves for pre-reading and early reading skills
Develop a respect for individual and cultural differences
Develop self-control, self-direction and independence
Learn to work with small and large groups of children
Experience pre-math skills through math games, sand, water, and block play
Learn to identify names of numbers, the right order, 1:1 correspondence, shapes, colors, grouping sets, ordering, size, weight, and space
Experiment with the written form of our language
Develop early writing skills, including holding pencils, crayons, learning about letters and words, configuration, order etc.
Gain hands on experience with a computer
Discover and experience the world around them. What things are called, how they work, where they come from using our five senses
Communicate creativeness with collage, drawing and painting
Obtain building and balancing skills
Use their imagination
