Anna Little

Each day children place their Name Cards in the Present column on the Attendance Board. This Board is used to address a variety of phonics skills throughout the curriculum.

Children will familiarize themselves with weather and weather words and in addition will preview observing, predicting, and forecasting concepts.

Research in child development indicates that children do not truly understand time concepts until the first or second grade, even though they may use words associated with time concepts. Initially, the calendar is used as an informational graph to identify important events such as a child’s birthday, holidays, guest speakers, etc. Over the course of the year, the calendar routine expands into more complicated concepts.

Warm up brain activity
Each day the Morning Meeting will begin with a short Warm Up Your Brain activity. These movements/ exercises help develop small and large motor control, improve coordination, create brain patterns, and activate both sides of the brain among other benefits.

Learning Centers provide the most natural and effective use of classroom materials, time, and space. Children are free to make choices, to handle, taste, smell, and observe, to explore at their own developmental levels, to solve problems in their own way, to share with friends, to dramatize, and to create. Children move around freely and learn by doing. As they change activities, they meet different groups of children and have frequent contacts with the teacher. They learn to work and socialize with others. They meet problems and learn to solve them. They grow in confidence and self-respect.