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We have developed a curriculum with a good mix of academics and socialization for the four-year-olds. Students learn to write their name, upper and lower case letters in their weekly Alphabet Book, and to write numbers 1-9. Our curriculum includes language arts, social studies (community helpers, holidays), science (butterfly garden – metamorphosis, seeds, sink & float, magnets), math (numerical order, counting), computers (more than a dozen educational and fun programs), daily arts & crafts and painting, music program and cooking. We also have a large outdoor playground and outdoor and indoor sand boxes. The children have the following areas available each day: dress up and play house, kindergarten blocks, a large variety of manipulatives (puzzles and construction toys), play dough (made by our three-year-olds), and art materials such as crayons and markers.
Our Circle Time includes the pledge, a “Hello Song”, calendar, weather, “Weather Song”, “Days of the Week” song, attendance and daily lesson. After going through our program students are more than ready to handle a full day kindergarten class.
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The four-year-old classes give two presentations during the school year. They perform a Thanksgiving Pow Wow and an end-of-the-year play at their graduation. To celebrate the completion of the Alphabet Book in May we have “Pirate Day”. Children and staff dress up as pirates and gypsies and search for buried treasure under “X marks the spot”.
We go on four trips: Holtsville Zoo which includes wild animals such as bears and a petting zoo and playground, Sweetbriar Nature Center with a rainforest theme, local firehouse, and a hayride at the pumpkin farm.
Children in this class need to be four years old by December 31.
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