• Documents

  • Preschool Program Plan
  • Special Events Throughout the School Year
  • Tweety Bird and Owl Curriculum- 33 months to 4 years old
  • Munchkin Room Curriculum- 4 and 5 year olds

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  Full Day Preschool Program
  
  33 months-5 years old
  6:30am-6:00pm
  
  Must be completely toilet trained to attend
  
  
  Program Day Options:
  
  5 days a week (M-F)
  4 days a week (M-TH)
  3 days a week (MWF)
  2 days a week (TTH)
  *Days are flexible
   

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  There are six areas of development that our youngest children focus on throughout their days in the preschool programs at the NELC.  These areas follow the Minnesota Early Childhood Indicators of progress. The NELC has also added an additional area on Religious Education.
  
   

  Social and Emotional Development	Emotional Development, Self-Concept and Social Competence and Relationships
  Language and Literacy Development	Listening, Speaking, Emergent Reading and Emergent Writing
  Cognitive Development	Mathematical and Logical Thinking: Number Concepts and Operations, Patterns and Relationships, Spatial Relationships/Geometry, Measurement and Mathematical Reasoning   Scientific Thinking and Problem Solving: Observing, Questioning and Investigating   Social Systems Understanding: Human Relationships and Understanding the World
  Physical and Motor Development	Gross Motor Development, Fine Motor Development and Physical Health and Well-Being
  Approaches to Learning	Curiosity, Risk-Taking, Imagination and Invention, Persistence and Reflection and Interpretation
  Creativity and the Arts	Creating, Responding and Evaluating
  Religious Education	The children will develop an awareness of God, the bible, learning prayers, empathy, respect and values through developmentally appropriate activities including being kind and loving to each other.  We also celebrate all Catholic holidays.

  
    
  Areas of the Classroom
  
  The following is a sample list of some of the terms you may hear your preschooler child or child's teacher use to explain the areas of the classroom and the activities that occurred.
   

  Free Choice Time	During free choice time or “free play” children are allowed to move freely throughout the entire classroom.  Socialization skills, problem solving skills, cooperative play and many other skills emerge from free choice time.    Below is a list of areas in your child’s classroom.
  Dramatic Play Area		Encourages problem solving skills, role-playing, socialization skills, language skills and cooperative play interactions.
  Book Area		Provides a quiet area to learn early letter and word recognition.
  Manipulative Area		Encourages math skills, cooperative skills, fine motor skills and turn taking.
  Science Area		Encourages children to appreciate nature and the environment, to experiment, discover and to develop cause and affect skills.
  Sensory Table		Encourages hands on expression.
  Art Area		Provides a variety of medias and opportunities for creative expression.
  Block Area		The children are able to use math skills, problem solving skills, large/fine motor and spatial relationships.
  Music Area		Encourages music appreciation.  The children are also exposed to music of different cultures.

  
   
   

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