Our preschool program receives the Experience Preschool with Mother Goose Time curriculum in exchange for the documented use of the curriculum. Here, I show you how I use this preschool curriculum in our Catholic, full-day preschool program. The preschool curriculum, including the scope and sequence, is already planned out for us. As a busy director and lead teacher, I truly appreciate this. A Core Concepts bag is included in our curriculum kit each month. We focus on 3 new letters (and their sounds), two numbers, one shape and one color. These "Core Concepts" are embedded in a monthly theme, making learning rich and meaningful. For example, it is more interesting to count, sort and graph small pigs while learning about Down on the Farm, then it would be to do a math activity with a completely unrelated object such as bears. We receive two sets of manipulatives each month and the children absolutely love them. Below is how I choose to display our Core Concepts each month. We review them at Opening Circle and Closing Circle each day. We will take them off the wall for a skill time activity also. The children have enjoyed using the vehicles during skill time because we have been talking about firefighters, bus drivers and so on. The Teacher Tool bag includes the beautiful and easy to use Teacher Guides, a skill poster, theme web, lesson plan calendar among other things. Next, I set up my simple lesson plan book (not included in the curriculum kit). This is an extra step I choose to do, however it really does not add a lot of time to my preparation. I have the following headings:
I then add in special events, what day we will attend Mass, half-day schedules, etc. From there, I decide where I will place the activities from the Experience Preschool Teacher Guide into my lesson plan book. I use the "Small Group Math" and "Table Top Literacy" activities from the Teacher Guide for my Skill Time Group sessions (am and pm). Children are assigned to one teacher so that we can get to know the children better, including how we can assist them or challenge them further. The Experience Preschool curriculum includes suggestions for simplifying or challenging each activity, which is very helpful. This is just a brief overview to give you an idea of how I use the Experience Preschool curriculum in our program. You can watch this video to see how I organize the materials that arrive each month. Feel free to leave a comment down below or email me with questions about how we approach our preschool curriculum.
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AuthorSheila Anderson has over 25 years experience in the Early Childhood Field and still loves going to "school" everyday. Archives
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