We teachers are excited to see each child in our classroom grow amazingly throughout a year. By participating in new hands-on activities and exploring different learning centers daily, children learn new communicative, social, motor and problem solving skills in our nurturing environment. We aim to provide each child with an educational and safe atmosphere so that he/she can learn by experimenting and playing with each other and feel loved, valuable and competent and trust others. Finally, every child in our classroom grows with having positive and healthy mind with their abilities.

Our favorite themes

* Seasons
* Holidays
* Feelings
* My family
* Ocean life
* Community helpers
* Transportation

Skills that children will learn

1. Social/Emotional Skills
* Develop self control and consideration for others when playing and participating in activities
* Experience confidence in myself and interest in learning
* Learn to show appropriate behavior in situations
* Identify different uniforms relating to professions
* Learn to decide toys and appropriate tools on my own when playing and being engaged with activities
* Identify people by gender

2. Self-Help Skills
* Learn to take care of bathroom needs without assistance
* Dress and undress independently
* Tying shoes independently
* Fold blankets independently
* Find and put back my materials independently

3. Cognitive Skills
* Recognize and pronounce sounds of letters from A to Z
* Identify and be able to count to 20
* Identify colors and shapes
* Differentiate between smaller and larger
* Develop concentration skills, attention span and memory skills
* Begin to understand and learn new concepts

4. Language/Literacy Skills
* Express my feelings verbally with using complete sentences
* Name people, objects, actions and places
* Describe actions taking place in the present
* Trace words and numbers

5. Motor Skills
* Hold a pencil, marker and crayon properly and comfortably
* Throw and catch a ball
* Display hand preference
* Cut with scissors from one side of paper to another
* Balance by using only one foot