Classroom Information
We ask for a $25 dollars fund raising fee every 4 months, $100 by years end. Due in Jan, April, July, Oct, paid by the months end which pays for supplies and art projects for your child's room.
I Spy room
18-28 mo
This room is for our youngest "Villagers", beginning at 18 months until 24 months. In this room, we concentrate on potty training, social skills, gross motor skills, and sensory play. This age group naps from 12:30pm to 3:00pm.
Tumbling Twos room
24-36 months
This room is for children from 24 - 36 months of age. The curriculum in this room focuses on social skills, gross motor skills, color and shape recognition as well as beginning letter and number sounds. We provide reading, art projects, group and individual activities in addition to the Montessori curriculum. This age group naps from 12:30PM to approximately 3:00PM. We also assist in potty training for children who have not yet mastered this skill.
Winker room - Activities Calendar
3 to 3 1/2 years old
This is our 3 year old room. The curriculum for this age group helps prepare the children for our Rising 4 room, reinforcing the skills learned in the Tumbling Twos room. In addition to those skills, they begin to introduce number and letter recognition and concentrate more on fine motor skills. They will learn such skills as how to cut and how to hold a pencil, as well as name recognition. They also introduce the concept of the calendar and we teach cultural awareness and science. They still take naps from 12:30PM to approximately 3:00PM. Children in this class are expected to be potty trained.
Rising 4 room - Activities Calendar
3 1/2 to 4 years old
The curriculum in this class builds upon the previous rooms, all with an eye to preparing the children for the Pre-K classroom. All the children in this room must be 3 1/2 year to 4 years old, completely potty trained and ready to give up naps. This classroom will concentrate more on letter and number recognition and writing, and we teach cultural awareness and science. They will build upon their fine motor skills and begin writing their names and do more classroom oriented group activities. The children will NOT take naps in this room in order to help ease the transition into the Pre-K classroom.
Pre-K room
4 to 5 years old - Activities Calendar
This is our preschool room for children 4 - 5 years of age who will be going to Kindergarten the following year. Our main focus in this room is on Kindergarten readiness. They will be building further on the skills learned in the previous rooms, and will now learn how to write the letters and make the connection between letter sounds and words. They will begin simple math concepts as well as a broader understanding of the world around them with cultural awareness, science, music and geography lessons. You can track the progress made by your child through progress reports you will receive at the beginning of the year and in the spring. Children should leave this room with all the tools needed to excel in Kindergarten and beyond.
School-Age Care
5 to 12 years old - Activities Calendar
This service is provided for children between the ages of 5 and 12 years who are enrolled in public school. We offer before and after school care as well as transportation to and/or from many Cheyenne schools. Please see the Director for a complete list of schools. We offer homework assistance as well as all-day care during in-service days and many school holidays. During Spring break, Christmas break and the summer months, we offer many fun activities and field trips for the youngsters.
By the end of the child's year in each room we hope to achieve these items:
I spy room:
18- 24 mo:
- Main focus on learning social skills, interaction with others,
- Working on gross motor skills, fine motor skills.
- large coordinated movements
- listening skills
- learning to ask what is needed and wanted
- balancing skills
- working on coordination ( hand and eye)
- learning/listening to stories
- music
- learning songs for language skills
- Memory skills are taught.
Tumbling twos:
24-36 mo:
- Reinforcing what was taught in the 18 month room.
- Greater working efforts on the gross and fine motor skills
- Taking parallel play and introducing social play
- Teaching sharing skills , turn taking
- Ability for verbal communication. ( ask for what they need and understanding it)
- Able to listen and participate in the story,
- recalling in some detail things that were taught in class
- memory skills are inherent
- Able to hold and use a pair of scissors and color with a crayon.
- Know to differentiate colors
- Know some simple shapes and names.
- To be fully potty trained.
Winkers:
3 to 3 1/2 year olds
- Their gross motor skills are mastered.
- An understanding how to share and take turns.
- They are able to communicate what they want and ask for help.
- Recalling what they have learned in class.
- Able to hold a pair of scissors and cut out some shapes.
- The ability to trace a line, circle, square, rectangle and triangle with recognition.
- To know the basic shape names i.e. circle, square, rectangle, triangle, hexagon.
- Know the primary and secondary colors.
- Knowing how to listen to a story and participate in the recalling of the story
- Memory skills
- Know some basic animal names and where they live, i.e. dolphin/ water, lion/ land, eagle/ sky.
- Know their body parts names and where they are located.
- Leaning the alphabet sounds
- Counting skills.
- The ability to recognize their own name in print
- Have some control of using different mediums when writing or drawing i.e., crayons, markers and pencils.
- Know how to follow simple direction i.e. stand behind the chair, stand in front of the chair.
- The ability to try to stand on one foot, hop and throw a ball.
Rising 4's:
3 1/2 to 4 year olds
- The ability to retell a story.
- Are able to cut and trace with great efficiency.
- They are beginning to recognize letters and letter sounds
- Can recall up to at least 6 /10 letters.
- Able to count to at least 6/10 with no prompting.
- Sequencing skills up to 3/4 are mastered.
- Understand and create simple patterns.
- An understanding of space and time i.e.. Morning, noon and night.
- The ability to attempt to draw a line, circle, square, rectangle and triangle with recognition.
- Learn to write their names.
- Know most if not all the colors on the color wheel.
- An understanding of nature and science having a greater knowledge of animals and their habitats i.e. polar bears are in the arctic (cold) camels live in the dessert (arid) monkeys live in the jungle(tropic) .
- An awareness and knowledge of the greater world around them.
- Learning about different countries and their culture.
- Able to attempt to throw a ball and catch it.
- Able to hold their balance to some degree.
Pre-k Room:
4-5 year olds
- Reinforcing what was taught in the Rising 4's room.
- The ability to retell a story with great accuracy.
- To be able to draw lines, circles, squares rectangle and triangles and recognize these shapes.
- Have a great understanding of social skills and use them to great accuracy.
- Mastered scissors cutting and tracing.
- Have a basic understanding of the greater world around them.
- Have an understanding of science and nature what it means.
- Know about and discuss counties and culture to some extent.
- Able to name countries.
- Be able to differentiate between letters and numbers.
- And recognize and recall the sound to at least 20 letters.
- Know how to count up to twenty.
- Know how to rhyme words and to make simple rhymes.
- Be able to form a complete sentence and convey what they mean.
- Know how to write their name and recognize in print both first and last names.
- Strive to achieve by end of school year, the ability to read simple text ie cat, hat, pig, wig. etc.
- To be able to do simple math formulas i.e. 1 + 1 = 2 , 2 + 2 = 4 in rebus form as well in some cases print form.
- Throw a ball and catch with some accuracy.
- Able to stand on one foot hop on one leg.
- Can put opposite hand over head to touch opposite ear.
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