3K for All

Leading Kids Preschool 3K for All Program

Leading Kids Preschool 3K for All Program uses Interdisciplinary Explorations Curriculum that is designed to connect children, families, and teaching staff and invite them to engage in comprehensive, in-depth, play-based learning across domains of the Early Learning Outcomes Framework.

Guiding Principles of the Early Learning
Outcomes Framework:

Approaches to Learning

The Approaches to Learning domain incorporates emotional, behavioral, and cognitive self-regulation under a single umbrella to guide teaching practices that support the development of these skills. This domain also includes initiative, curiosity, and creativity. Supporting children’s skills in this domain helps children acquire knowledge, learn new skills, and set and achieve goals.

Social and Emotional Development

Social development refers to a child’s ability to create and sustain meaningful relationships with adults and other children. Emotional development refers to a child’s ability to express, recognize, and manage their own emotions as well as respond appropriately to others’ emotions.

Language and Communication

Language development refers to emerging abilities in listening and understanding (receptive language) and in using language (expressive language). Language and literacy skills can develop in any language, and for the most part, they develop first in the child’s home language. Supporting development of the home language helps prepare young children for learning English. Emerging literacy refers to the knowledge and skills that lay the foundation for reading and writing.

Mathematics Development

Mathematics development refers to understanding numbers and quantities, their relationships, and operations, such as what it means to add to and take away. Mathematics also includes shapes and their structure, reasoning, measurement, classification, and patterns.

Perceptual, Motor, and Physical Development

Perception refers to children’s use of their senses to gather and understand information and respond to the world around them. Motor skills support children in fully exploring their environment and inter- acting with people and things and thus, support development in all domains. Gross motor skills refer to moving the whole body and using larger muscles of the body, such as those in the arms and legs. Fine motor skills refer to using the small muscles found in individual body parts, especially those in the hands and feet. Children’s physical well-being depends on a number of factors, including their knowledge and use of safe, healthy behaviors and routines. Children’s ability to keep themselves safe and healthy, such as communicating to adults when they are hungry or sick, is extremely important in its own right and contributes to learning and development in all areas.

Pre-K for All

Leading Kids Preschool PRE-K for All Program

Leading Kids Preschool PRE-K for All program uses The New York State Prekindergarten Learning Standards to help children succeed in school and prepare for college and careers.

Our curriculum is based on
five domains of development:

Approaches to Learning

how children become involved in learning and acquiring knowledge.

Physical Development and Health

children’s physical health and ability to engage in daily activities

Social and Emotional Development

the emotional competence and ability to form positive relationships that give meaning to children’s experiences in the home, school and larger community

Communication, Language and Literacy

children’s understanding, creating, and communicating meaning.

Cognition and Knowledge of the World

what children need to know and understand about their world and how they apply what they know including math, science, social studies, the arts, and technology.

We apply this curriculum
in our daily activities:

During Class Meetings

children come together and become a community of learners, explorers, and friends. They discuss the calendar, weather, and plans for the day. They build language skills by listening and responding to stories as well as singing songs and reciting nursery rhymes. They practice counting, look for patterns, and explore other math concepts.

During Read Aloud

children listen to stories every day. They ask questions, learn new words, and discuss different parts of books. During this time, children develop listening, reading, writing, speaking, and critical thinking skills. They get excited to hear what will happen next and what they will learn each time the teacher turns the page.

During Center Time

children make decisions about where they will explore, discover, and learn each day. They learn independence by working by themselves or with other children. They read and write, build, cut, paint, and pretend.

During Small Group

children spend focused time with the teacher and other students. They develop new knowledge and practice what they learn with support from the teacher and other students.

During Active Play

children play outside every day, weather permitting. Playing outside helps develop children’s muscles, improves coordination, and reinforces healthy habits. Children also learn social skills such as taking turns, talking to others, making friends and getting along.

During Meal Time

children have a role in getting ready for a meal. Meals are often set up in family style so children can serve themselves and continue learning social skills as they engage in rich conversations during meals.

Our Lunch

Happy healthy meal everyday!

Breakfast-Cereals w/Organic milk Snack-yummy & healthy snacks
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