Abigail Bottoms

Two Year Old "All By Myself"

Our two year old program is designed to familiarize children with the preschool environment. This "All By Myself" program is for the child that has NO difficulty with separation and is able to go to school "all by themselves" (without a parent). A structured environment is slowly developed in which the children can play and learn. We introduce them to circle time, snack time, story time, felt board activities, music and craft time. Much of the class time is focused on teaching socialization skills.

Three Year Old Program

In this program children develop essential skills through participating in various classroom activities. The following is a list of some of these activities.

1. Circle Time - helps to develop listening and language skills.
2. Snack Time - provides an opportunity to practice their language skills by socializing with their classmates.
3. Free Play - encourages children to move from parallel play to cooperative play.
4. Craft Time and Academic Time - provide us an opportunity to teach the children shapes, numbers, and colors. We start introducing the letters of the alphabet and focus on letter sound and recognition. The children will also be cutting with scissors which will help strengthen their fine motor skills.

Four Year Old Program

Our four year old program continues to focus on socialization skills by encouraging the children to play together cooperatively. Academics become more difficult as the children continue to work on letter recognition and sounds. Children begin learning to write the alphabet and their names. We encourage children to listen and follow direction in an effort to sufficiently prepare them for Kindergarten.