So what exactly do we do at The Learning Factory Preschool Academy? We welcome you to step inside a typical day at our Austin preschool program.
Discovery Time: Upon arrival children are welcome to explore materials in our manipulative center and interact with each other.
Circle Time: Class gathers in a circle on rug to go over calendar, weather, name of the week (letters and the sounds in the name), songs, poems, finger puppets, and stories.
Free Center Time: Children rotate around to different learning centers that are set up reflecting the theme of the week/month.
- Art Center: Children are free to explore
and create their own designs though various mediums.- Math Center: Number sense is
developed by using manipulative objects. While recognizing and counting numbers is important, so is sorting and classifying objects. This helps children begin to notice how items are alike and different, and creates an awareness that is vital for learning.- Reading Center: Children can cozy up to a good book in our class library or listen to a book on tape or the computer. Reading literature enlarges children's comprehension, improves both listening and speaking skills, and increases vocabulary!
- Writing Center: We add a tactile (kinesthetic) component when we practice shaping the letters with different materials. Shaping letters with dough, tracing them on textured paper cutouts, and writing in the sand or salt trays help children internalize the shape of the letter, while developing their fine motor skills. Most experts believe that kids learn best when they are taught using a multisensory approach.
- Dramatic Play Center: This center is the foundation for all learning for young children, and provides them with a variety of valuable learning opportunities. Play is how children begin to understand the world. Children's play develops and unlocks creativity and imagination, helps to develop reading, thinking, and problem solving skills as well as motor skills.
- Computers: Explore and discover with Jump Start World, a 3-D world adventure land. Builds math, reading, and critical thinking. Over 90 leaning games that teach more than 50 skills. Curriculum based on national and state standards. Safe because kids are never online.
- Snack/lunch Time: Each day the students have a healthy snack/lunch and drink right after fitness time.
Movement/Fitness: 30 to 45 minutes of each day is devoted to fitness, coordination, and fun! Children work on fine motor skills, big muscles and small muscles with a variety of exercise movements and objects. We will do yoga, obstacles courses, parachute games, crawl, climb, bounce and much more.
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A Typical Day in Our Preschool Program -
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