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DAY I N T H E L I F E P R E S C H O O L E R
O F. . .
“What did you do in school today?”
“I had
fun!”
he Early Childhood Development Center at St. Margaret’s provides three-year-olds and four-year-olds with the chance to develop vital cognitive, physical, social, emotional and creative skills through self-guided and teacher-guided learning. It might appear as though children are simply having fun, but fun here is anything but simple.While using a hole-punch or a stapler in the art room, children are developing the same muscles they will use to hold a pencil.While building structures with giant-size blocks on the outdoor playground, children are testing the physical integrity of their imagined concepts.These children are in an environment designed to support learning through action and interaction.
T > > 8 a.m.
Parents and children sign in. They are greeted in the front hall by Ingrid Andrews, Director of the Early Childhood Development Center, and welcomed by the teachers in the classrooms.
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In classroom Learning Centers, there are construction projects in the works; children are manipulating puzzles and games, and counting and sorting objects; dramatic productions are being created, rehearsed and performed; young artists are exploring their creativity; and students are listening to stories using headphones. Whether weighing and sorting materials gathered on the playground or using a flannel board to retell a story heard earlier in the week, quiet or busy, playful or serious, students have support when needed or requested, as they construct their own learning. All this happens every day in the Preschool.
9–9:15 a.m.
10:15–10:35 a.m.
Circle time.
Circle time.
8:10–9 a.m.
9:15–10:15 a.m.
10:35–11:30 a.m.
Classroom time with Learning Centers.
Outdoor time.
Learning Centers resume.