Curriculum

We believe in learning through playing, experimenting, manipulating, and discussing what we are learning. These ideas are interwoven into Literacy, Writing, Math and Thematic Learning times.

Literacy

Our focus in literacy is the Big 5 of reading: phonemic awareness, phonics, vocabulary, comprehension and fluency. In a typical day, students engage in literacy through read-alouds, alphabet, and sound recognition, Handwriting Without Tears, and sight word recognition. Students also play with letters and sounds through the writing, reading, and alphabet centers and learn in a way that is meaningful to them.

We provide multiple opportunities for students to experience the alphabet. Here, a student finds the letter “A”.
A student watches the movement of her mouth in the mirror as we practice making the sounds.
We use “Handwriting Without Tears” to help our students practice writing the alphabet.
Two students read a familiar story together in our classroom library.
Students write narratives in our 4 year old class.

Math

Number Sense, Counting and Geometry are the focus of our mathematics program. Every day, students count, count, and count some more! We identify and build shapes, and extend patterns. Students also practice sorting and classifying within our weekly themes. As mathematicians, students will problem solve every day and explain their thinking.  This can be done through open and closed problem solving mats, using manipulatives to show how to solve a problem, subitizing numbers or even figuring out what shapes they can make with four toothpicks.

One student uses a story mat to match the numeral.
A student builds shapes with popsicle sticks.
A student uses our open problem solving mats to create her own story problem about fish.

Theme

We have weekly and monthly themes for the students to explore. We read books, experiment, create an play within our themes. Our themes help students make sense of the world around them and encourages them to ask more questions!  Our centers also encourage students to explore the theme through literacy and mathematics.  For more detailed information about our curriculum, please read our Carriage House Preschool Policies and Procedures!

Students observe what ants like to eat the most. They hypothesized the ants would like the lollipop the best.
Two students play in the Dramatic Play flower shop!
Students watch our butterflies emerge from their chrysalis!
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