PRESCHOOL

Now taking registration for the 2010-11 school year.
$140 a week
Phone 485-8062 OR 485-3919

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Welcome to Wilder's Preschool! Our goal is to recognize each child as a unique person with an individual pattern and timing of growth, as well as individual personality, learning style, and family background.

Wilder's program is for 3-year olds and 4-year olds. The preschool program combines a prekindergarten early educational experience with morning and afternoon child care. Hours for the program are 7 a.m. to 6 p.m., with parents providing transportation. Preschool students follow the Jefferson County Public School Calendar.

Our preschool classroom is organized into learning centers. A learning center is an area in which activity-oriented materials motivate and enable children to assume individual responsibility for their own learning and are arranged for a variety of different purposes. Science centers encourage children to investigate and study nature; dramatic play centers help students express themselves and/or interact with others. Art centers can help awaken the child's desire to create and discover through a variety of media while sensory centers encourage children's imagination and cognitive processes. Block centers allow children to construct. Reading, writing, math, and cognitive centers are also included in the room.


Goals for the Program

Affective
Perceptual/Motor
Cognitive

Children will learn to resolve conflicts, to express ideas, and to get along with peers in a group setting. Children will develop respect for other human beings. Children will learn to manage feelings such as anger or sadness in appropriate and non-violent ways. Children will acquire school-related social skills such as taking turns, talking, or sharing classroom responsibilities. Children will feel confident in cognitive, motor, and other abilities.

Children will develop important large muscle capablities as well as small muscle. Children will learn to visually discriminate among objects, design, colors, letters, and numbers. Children will learn to discriminate phenomena using the senses. Children will learn to coordinate eyes and hands to perform tasks.

Children will gain increased attention span and persistence at tasks. Children will learn to classify and sort objects. Children will develop problem-solving and self-discovery skills. Children will gain increased long and short-term memory capabilities. Children will become more able to express their creativity. Children, when developmentally ready, will acquire reading readiness skills, such as left-to-right progression, letter and word recognition, and association of sounds with letters. Children will acquire mathematic readiness skills as well as concepts in science and social studies.

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