Preschool & Transitional Kindergarten
Developmental Milestones
Physical:
- Is able to dress and undress self
- Has refined coordination and is learning many new skills
- Is very active and likes to do things like climb, hop, skip and
do stunts
Emotional/Social:
- Develops capacity to share and take turns
- Plays cooperatively with peers
- Is developing some independence and self-reliance
- Is developing ethnic and gender identities
- Learning to distinguish between reality and fantasy
- Learning to make connections and distinctions between feelings, thoughts and actions
Intellectual/Cognitive:
- With preschoolers, their ability to understand language usually develops ahead of their speech
- By age 6, their vocabulary will have increased to between 8,000 and 14,000 words but it is important to remember that children in this age group often repeat words without fully understanding their meaning
- They have learned the use of most prepositions (up/down, ahead/behind, beside) and some basic possessive pronouns (mine, his, ours), and have started to master adjectives
- Pre-school children continue to be egocentric and concrete in their thinking. They are still unable to see things from another’s perspective, and they reason based on specifics that they can visualize and that have importance to them (i.e.“Mom and Dad” instead of “family”).
- When questioned, they can generally express who, what, where, and sometimes how, but not when or how many. They are also able to provide a fair amount of detail about a situation.
- It is important to keep in mind that children in this age range continue to have trouble with the concepts of sequence and time. As a result, they may seem inconsistent when telling a story simply because they hardly ever follow a beginning-middle end approach.
Schedule
7:30am – 8:40am | Morning Welcome Activities/Free Play |
8:40am – 8:50am | Clean Up |
8:50am – 9:00am | Potty/ Wash Hands/ Take Off Masks |
9:00am – 9:20am | Morning Snack |
10:00am – 10:10am | Clean Up/ Wash Hands /Put on Masks |
10:10am – 10:30am | Morning Circle |
10:30am – 11:15am | Morning Project Time |
11:15am – 11:30am | Clean Up/Potty/Wash Hands |
11:30am – 12:00pm | Outside Recess (If weather permits) |
12:00pm – 12:10pm | Clean Up Yard & Transition Back Inside |
12:10pm – 12:20pm | Wash Hands & Set Up Lunch |
12:20pm – 12:50pm | Lunch |
12:50pm – 1:00pm | Clean Up Lunch/ Potty / Wash Hands |
1:00pm – 3:00pm | Nap/Rest/ Quiet Body Time until 2:45 & rest quiet time reading until 3:00 pm |
3:00pm – 3:20pm | Wake Up/ Pack Up / Potty / Wash Hands |
3:20pm – 3:40pm | Afternoon Snack Outside Time |
3:40pm – 3:50pm | Clean Up Snack / Wash Hands & Put on Masks |
3:50pm – 4:20pm | Potty / Wash Hands / Take Off Masks |
3:20pm – 3:45pm | Afternoon Snack |
3:45pm – 4:00pm | Clean Up/Wash Hands & Put on Masks |
4:00pm – 4:20pm | Outside Recess (If weather permits) |
4:20pm – 4:30pm | Clean Up Yard & Transition Back Inside |
4:30pm – 4:40pm | Potty / Wash Hands |
4:40pm – 5:05pm | Afternoon Free Play |
5:10pm – 5:20pm | Clean Up |
5:15pm – 5:30pm | Departure Pick Up Time |
5:30pm Prompt | Classroom Closed |
* If the weather does not permit us to go outside to play. The children will participate in music and movement, rock climbing, yoga, stretching and calm breathing.
These schedules are a guideline for our days. Actual times and activities often vary in response to the children’s needs and interests.
