Our School has a traditional curriculum based on what has seemed appropriate for the ages of the children, the season of the year, the holidays of our culture and activities which have worked for us in timing and content. The following is not intended to be all inclusive, but a general guide.

Letter and number recognition is a part of every activity and experience in our classrooms. We advocate an environment rich in opportunities for speaking, listening and also rich in print—where children are given opportunities to make sense out of print and to express their thoughts both orally and in print. In addition, the children play with many manipulative toys and materials that are used in teaching recognition of letters and numbers.

Fall Curriculum: September - November

Units: Myself and Other People: Friends, Names, How People are alike and different
Activities: Making individual faces which are used throughout the year for attendance and letter recognition, Experience charts about friends and personal likes.

The Calendar: Days have names and numbers, months change.
Activities: Singing the days of the week, filling in the number daily, The child whose parent participates draws a picture on the calendar, class counts the days of the month, counts how many days to…fill in birthdays, holidays. Concepts of yesterday, today and tomorrow are developed.

Summer/Autumn: Seasons change and have names.
Activities: Fall weather, the clothes we wear, observe leaf changes, carving pumpkins, plant pumpkin seeds, cook pumpkin muffins, apples, graph favorite apples, cook applesauce, compare apples and pumpkins, write a class book about pumpkin farm trip; farms and harvest time. Leaf rubbings and prints, paper bag pumpkins, fall collage, autumn colors at easel, orange play dough. Raking leaves in the playground.
Field Trip: Green Meadows Farm

Halloween and Thanksgiving Celebrations:
Activities: Costume Parade for Halloween, emphasis is placed on the separation of reality and fantasy, Halloween color collages, marble painting, printing with cookie cutter shapes, Experience chart about things we are thankful for, cooking cranberry relish

Some of the books we will read: We Are All Alike.We Are All Different, Cookie’s Week, The Seasons, The Big Red Barn, Go Away Big Green Monster, Stellaluna, Pumpkin Pumpkin, Picking Apples and Pumpkins.

Music and Fingerplays: The Little Red Box, Grey Squirrel, The Acorn Song, Five Little Pumpkins, Five Little Leaves Up In A Tree. Pretty November. Introduction to rhythm instruments.