Preschool @ KU Kids Deanwood

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Preschool @ KU Kids Deanwood Recreation Center DC

Our KU Kids @ Deanwood Preschool program balances teacher‐planned and child‐initiated learning, emphasizing responsiveness to children’s strengths, interests, needs, and learning styles through the Creative Curriculum. Nationally known for being forward‐thinking, comprehensive, and rigorously researched, the curriculum allows our teachers to plan and implement content‐rich, developmentally appropriate programs that support active learning and promote children’s progress in all developmental areas.

Teachers incorporate the 38 researched based objectives to understand developmentally appropriate practice and how to create daily routines and meaningful experiences.

Preschool Curricular Components include:

Physical

To help children increase their large and small muscle skills and feel confident about what their bodies can do.

Cognitive

To help children become confident learners by letting them try out their own ideas and experience success, and by helping them acquire learning skills such as the ability to solve problems, ask questions, and use words to describe their ideas, observations, and feelings.

Emotional

To help children experience pride and self- confidence, develop independence and self-control, and have a positive attitude toward life.

Language Immersion

We know that exposure to a second language at an early age, enhances the part of the brain that processes language. Therefore, children are able to understand the intricate nuances of language more quickly than non-bilingual students.

Mathematics

Our teachers build upon the children’s interests to promote mathematics learning. The teachers fully understand the mathematical concepts and skills they will be teaching and are guided on how purposefully to incorporate mathematics learning into daily classroom routines.

Literacy

Our daily lesson plans encompass the six essential aspects of teaching literacy: (1) Talking, Singing, & Playing with language (2) Reading Aloud (3) Storytelling (4) Story Retelling (5) Writing (6) Meaningful Play Conducting Long-term studies

Social Learning

To help children feel comfortable in school, trust their new environment, make friends, learn to communicate, and feel they are a part of the group.

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