Please see our affiliate disclosure here. We have children ages 3-years to 5-years old in our classroom. Often, I get asked how we meet the needs of the children that vary in chronological and developmental age. One way we do this is by using Experience Preschool Curriculum that provides us with weekly Teacher Guides and lesson plans. Each day there is a suggested small group literacy and tabletop math activity and a Science STEAM station. The second way is how we schedule our day and customize the curriculum to fit our needs. Above, a student working with the Tangrams and pattern cards included in this month's Friends and Feelings theme kit. School Readiness Skills: MR5 Patterns and SED 4 Social Relationships. A side note, in each monthly kit, we receive most of the materials for the art projects and tools for literacy, math, and science. These tools are ours to keep and use again in the future. We have an AM and PM Skill Time scheduled each day. Mrs. P. has one group of children (typically the younger, but not always the case). I have children who are going into kindergarten the following year. We will then use the suggested small group or tabletop activity in the teacher guide. Sometimes we repeat an activity from a previous lesson if we feel some children could benefit from more practice. I use a blank teacher planner to write in the title of activity and page number from the teacher guide provided in our kit. You can read another post on how I customize the curriculum, here. I modeled how to create simple patterns to my group and then had them work in pairs to create a pattern to share with me. I walked the students through their pattern if it wasn't quite correct, asking engaging questions and having them work through it again. We then celebrate the hard work of the teams!
I hope you enjoyed seeing how we customize Experience Preschool Curriculum to meet the needs of our mixed-age preschool classroom.
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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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