Four Year Old Class (4 Days)

The goal of the Fours team is to provide a Kindergarten readiness program while encouraging creative and enriching free-play. Our Four-Year-Old is exposed to both pre-reading and pre-math activities. Handwriting, through the use of sensory activities and worksheets, develops the skills necessary to be prepared for Kindergarten. Children are exposed to the alphabet through art, songs, and daily individualized activities that emphasize each letter and its properties. The goal is that the children will recognize each letter by its upper and lower case and its sounds. Math readiness skills are built upon daily through hands-on activities and work sheets. These activities provide awareness of the concepts of sets, number recognition, sequencing, patterning and one-on-one correspondence. During Circle Time, exposure to the daily calendar allows for opportunities involving numbers and relativity. Shape, color, letter, and number recognition are emphasized through interactive games, sorting, and matching activities in this group activity. 

Creative skills are developed and nurtured throughout various activities during our busy days. Social and emotional skills, and recognizing positive boundaries are emphasized during free-play which is still generously available in addition to providing a creative outlet, art projects are a medium for teaching colors, taking turns, and learning multi-part directions. Most art projects help to build small motor coordination through the use of scissors, paint brushes, markers, glue sticks, and other tools. 

The Four-Year-Old Class focuses on a different theme nearly every week of the school year to expand the children’s knowledge of the world. Theme units are enhanced through on and off-site Field Trips that are scheduled throughout the year. Theme concepts are also taught through finger plays, art, storybooks, foods, and crafts. Language skills and vocabulary are developed through these fun units of study as well. Topics range from "Insects" to “Animals in Spring", from "The Christmas Story" to “Celebrate Easter”, from "Health and Our Bodies", to ‘Community Helpers” and “Transportation’ to “Around the World Passports”. The Weekly enrichment classes provided for the Four-Year-Olds are: ‘Super Science’, ‘Art Creations’, ‘Chapel/Kids Praise’, and ‘Gymsport’. Fours will play on our air bounce and in the Rainy Day Room during inclement weather days.

The goal of the Fours’ teachers is to provide Kindergarten prep in a loving, caring, and stimulating environment which will encourage the individual development of happy, thoughtful, curious children who know they precious because they are loved by God.