Below are some of the age specific learning targets that our curriculum focuses on.
1 Year Olds
- Gaining a sense of independence
- Separation from parents, realizing the parent will return
- Socialization – sharing, taking turns, etc.
- Gross motor skills – walking, running, hopping
- Language development and vocabulary – through songs and finger plays
- Learning about God’s love
2 Year Olds
- Socialization – sharing, taking turns, etc.
- Increasing language usage and vocabulary
- Recognizing their name in print
- Introducing the alphabet
- Counting skills
- Shapes and colors
- Group games
- Fine motor manipulative activities
- Music and Movement enrichment class
- Learning about God’s love
3 Year Olds
- Gaining a sense of independence, responsibility and self-reliance
- Cooperation and respect for others
- Using words to express feelings
- Listening and following directions
- Communicating needs
- Fine motor activities such as cutting and holding a pencil correctly
- Introducing the alphabet and beginning sounds
- Increasing language usage and vocabulary
- Recognize and print their name
- Understanding beginning math concepts such as recognizing numbers, one-to-one correspondence, sorting and classifying
- Learning about God’s love
Enrichment activities for 3-year-old children include Chapel, music and movement.
4 Year Olds and Transitional Kindergarten
- Gaining a sense of independence, responsibility and self-reliance
- Cooperation and respect for others
- Learning about school protocol – waiting their turn, walking in a line, routine, etc.
- Participation in group activities
- Listening and following directions and classroom rules
- Pre-reading skills – letters and sounds, beginning and ending sounds, rhyming words, recognizing and reading environmental print, etc.
- Reading readiness – print carries a message, print runs from top to bottom, left to right, etc.
- Writing letters and numbers
- Beginning math, science and history
- Learning about God’s love
Enrichment activities for 3 & 4-year-old and transitional kindergarten classes include computers, Chapel, music, movement, and spanish.
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Children’s Discovery Center Tuition 2024-2025
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For more information, email Denise Stavely.