Developmentally Appropriate Preschool

In Adventure Preschool, we strive to provide children with developmentally appropriate activities that help to teach core knowledge. There has been a lot of publicity about how we are pushing children too hard to learn too much too early. 

What we cover in Adventure Preschool is not new. It is the same skill set that was taught 20 years ago to a 3-year-old. We work on social skills; getting along with friends, sharing, saying our name, using our manners. We work on Small Muscle coordination; cutting, coloring, and pre-writing. Academics in a three-year-old room look very different from what most people think of as true academics. 

We cover Math, Science, Language, Literacy, and Large and Small Muscle development.

Math - block play, counting, patterning, shapes

Science - sensory play, exploration, practice with "tools" such as magnifying glasses, tweezers and magnets, learning about colors

Language - vocabulary, speaking, having a conversation

Literacy - Letters in their name, rhyming, alliteration

Muscle Development - coloring, cutting, using stickers, stacking, running, playing outside or in the gym, obstacle courses. 

Most of all, we have a lot of fun! We play and the children learn! We color and the children learn! We explore and the children learn! If you have any questions regarding the skills that your child is learning, please feel free to contact me!