Learning, Growing, Excelling.

Redeemer Lutheran Preschool

Learning, Growing, Excelling.

While each classroom has listed curriculum goals, the philosophy of our program is that each child is unique and will therefore acquire the foundations for learning at his/her own pace. We create the environment/activities, the children will remain challenged and engaged, and WHEN they are developmentally ready to absorb/apply the learning skills, they will.

Learning Goals

Faith Development

  • Learn to worship and honor God
  • Listen to Bible stories to know and love God
  • Introduce children to chapel twice a week
  • Build up children’s faith through God’s word
  • Learn to recite prayers and sing chapel songs

 

Social/Emotional Development

  • Make “play” the foundation of all learning
  • Develop role playing and pretend play
  • Learn to express a variety of feelings with gestures or words
  • Learn to interact with care taker and other adults
  • Manage emotional responses with assistance or independently
  • Engage in simple interactions with other children
  • Build personal independence
  • Develop awareness of others’ feelings
  • Learn to behave according to social expectations

Emergent Cognitive Development

  • Develop understanding of how things work or move
  • Learn to engage in efforts to solve conflicts
  • Able to mimic, imitate and repeat actions as a way of communicating needs/wants
  • Develop the ability to store information and later retrieve it
  • Understand that different amounts are represented by numbers
  • Learn to group, sort, connect and categorize based on the attribute
  • Learn to identify the alphabet by repetitive exposure through a print-rich environment
  • Develop “symbolic” or “pretend play” to understand social roles
  • Grow the ability to exercise control over their attention span
  • Participate in personal care routines

Language Development

  • Understand and carry out one-step requests
  • Use words to tell others about their needs, wants and interests
  • Build up vocabulary to speak in simple sentences (3-4 words)
  • Learn the basic rules of conversational turn-taking when communicating
  • Listen and participate while being read to
  • Grow children’s attention through songs, chants, poems, nursery rhymes and stories
  • Develop interest for the print environment recognizing some letters – starting with the first letter of his/her own name

Perceptual & Motor Development

  • Use the senses to change their interaction with the environment
  • Develop body awareness to start toilet training
  • Learn to move large muscles with basic control and coordination
  • Ability to move the small muscles with one or both hands
  • Learn to walk/run and swing arms for balance
  • Learn awareness of own personal space and their peers’ space

 

Schedule

Time Activity
7:00 – 8:15 am Opening Class – Teacher directed activity, 2 learning centers open (change daily)
8:15 – 8:55 am Outside Play – free choice table toys, trikes, balls, Legos (all students combined)
8:55 – 9:15 am Gathering song/prayer, divide into classrooms Potty/Diapering/Hand washing

 
9:15 – 9:30 am Snack

*Chapel – held in Sanctuary on Wednesdays @ 9:30 (snack is served after chapel.)
9:30 – 9:40 am 1st Morning Circle (Introduce Bible stories, songs, letters, shapes, numbers and colors)
9:40 – 10:30 am Learning Centers (Activities will vary)
Manipulatives: puzzles, legos, blocks, dramatic play, numbers, etc…
Fine Motor: Painting with many materials, coloring, pegboard etc…

Sensory & Science: exploration with play-dough, sand, water, measuring, pouring, beans, mixing colors, etc.
Art: self-creative expression based on monthly theme
(i.e. painting, gluing, paper tearing, finger painting, etc…)
10:30 – 11:10 am Outdoor Play – yards will vary                                Bike trail/Big yard: tricycles, balls, hopscotch, running, play houses, Lego centers    Small yard: slides, climbing structures, sand box, dramatic play, play tunnels, music & movement, school bus structure, obstacle course, gardening.
11:10 – 11:25 am Clean-up/Potty/Diapering/Hand washing
11:25 – 11:40 am 2nd Circle Time (Activities vary)
Story Time: flannel board, hand puppets, musical instruments, book area
11:40 – 12:15 pm Wash-up and lunch
12:15 – 12:30 pm Half day pick-up 
12:30 – 12:45 pm Potty/Diapering/Hand washing
12:45 – 3:00 pm Nap Time – each child shall bring their own blanket and small stuffed animal
3:00 – 3:15 pm Potty/Diapering/Hand washing

 
3:15 – 3:30 pm Snack  (see snack calendar)

All children- combined
3:30 – 5:30 pm Afternoon Day Care (children combined for any of these activities: art, manipulatives, games,  balls, climbing rock, tricycles, dramatic play, etc. until parents pick-up)