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Where hands-on activities encourage early learning. Independence and social skills are developed through play.
Our 3-Year-Old Program supports each child’s educational growth through hands-on activities and early learning experiences. Our classrooms are designed with labeled learning centers that encourage exploration. Preschool children practice sharing, taking turns, listening, following directions, and expressing their needs and ideas.
Our early childhood education curriculum introduces letters, beginning sounds, numbers, shapes, and colors. Children practice recognizing and tracing their names, tracing letters, and counting. Cutting, gluing, coloring, painting, and threading activities develop fine motor skills, while running, jumping, hopping, and balancing support gross motor development.
Stories, songs, dramatic play, and art provide opportunities for creativity and language development. Structured activities and free play indoors and outdoors help children build self-awareness, independence, and positive social skills.
Accordion Content
– Develop self-esteem through self-awareness and a positive self-image
– Develop social growth development through daily interaction with peers & teachers for greater interaction in the public or private schools
– Develop independence through learning how to care for oneself
– Develop great listening skills, turn-taking skills, sharing, etc.
– Receptive language: what the child understands and their ability to follow directions
– Expressive language: the child’s ability to vocalize needs, wants, thoughts, and ideas
Fine Motor Skills
– Learning to hold and use scissors correctly
– Cutting, gluing, pasting, coloring, tracing, pointing, threading, etc
– Creative expression using crayons & markers, finger painting, using brushes & dot-to-dot paint
– Engaging in various activities that require the use of small hand muscles
Gross Motor Skills
– Encouraging development of large muscles coordination: running, jumping, kicking & throwing balls, hopping
– Encourage development of good body control such as balancing, exercising, dancing, etc.
Arts & Crafts
Arts and crafts are based on the theme of the month and incorporate dramatic play and cultural experiences.
Open Ended Art Activities
– Songs
– Finger Plays
– Stories and Language Development (Alphabet Recognition)
– Dramatic Play
– Water Play
– Sensory Exploration
– How Things Work
– Fitting things together, Stacking, Things that Spin, Peek-a-Boo, Emptying & Filling/Different Ways of Moving
– Large & Small Motor Development
– Primary Colors & Shapes Recognition
– Listening Activities – Following Directions
– Comparative (Matching Shapes & Sizes)
– Sharing & Taking Turns
– Cause & Effect
7:00–8:30 Arrival/Greet Parents & Children Warmly/Quiet Play
8:30–9:00 Songs/Stories/Bathroom Break
9:00–9:30 Breakfast Snack (Parents, Please Be On Time)
9:30–10:00 Classroom Circle Time: Children sit on the carpet, and teachers lead the following activities:
(1) Name Recognition/Roll Call, (2) Show & Tell – Fridays only, (3) Special News, (4) The Weather, (5) Job Responsibility, (6) Today’s Helper, (7) Rhymes & Songs, (8) Class Rules, (9) Introduce the Lesson for the Day
10:00–10:30 Teacher-Directed Activities in
Reading/Writing/Science/Social Studies to coincide with the theme of the month
10:30–10:45 Bathroom Break
10:45–11:15 Outdoor Playtime (if weather permits) or Indoor Gym
11:15–11:30 Bathroom & Water Break/Stories & Books
11:30–12:00 STEM/Spanish/Manipulatives
12:00–12:30 Lunch
12:30–12:45 Hygiene Care
12:45–1:00 Prepare for Nap/Quiet Music a Must
1:00–2:45 Rest Period – Quiet Music
2:45–3:00 Primary Care
3:00–3:30 PM Snack
3:30–4:00 Puppets/Stories/Rhymes & Songs (teacher-directed activities based on the story of the week)
4:00–4:30 Outdoor Play if Weather Permits (otherwise Games & Manipulatives)
4:30–5:30 Art/Craft Project/Classroom Centers (Indoor Play)
5:30–6:30 Gym Time/Dismissal/Walk Down to Gifted & Talented Room
Sunrise Early Learning Center is open from 7:00 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. Monday-Friday, and is closed only on federal holidays. The center operates throughout the year.
Children arrive as early as 7:00 a.m. every morning and are greeted enthusiastically upon arrival. A typical day at Sunrise includes:
Arrival
Breakfast
Assembly (Entire School & Staff) every Friday at 9:00 a.m.
Individual Classroom Circle Time (With Class Teacher)
Planned Structured Learning Activities For The Day
Students Visit Our Educational Development Room: Library | Montessori Program | Computers
Music Taught By Our Music Teacher
Lunch
Recess
Nap Time
Puppets/Stories & Songs
Art
Outdoor Play (weather permitting)
Manipulative Games
Release Time
