Adjustment to the pre-school setting is emphasized through a structured and predictable schedule which allows time for busy and quiet learning through key experiences in the following areas: (also, cited are some examples)

• Self Awareness: expressing initiative, distinguishing “me” from others, doing things for themselves
  
  
• Social/Emotional: Building relationships with peers, expressing emotions, showing empathy towards others, developing social play.
  
  
• Creative Representation: Initiating and pretending, exploring building and art materials.
  
  
• Music & Movement: Listening/responding to music, exploring pitch, moving whole body, feeling and expressing steady beats.
  
  
• Communication & Language: Listening and responding, participating in “give and take” communication, exploring books, enjoying rhymes and songs, introduction to letter recognition, etc.
  
  
• Science: Exploring objects using the five senses.
  
  
• Math: experiencing “more”, one to one correspondence, introduction to number recognition, colors/patterns, shapes, exploring location, filling and dumping, etc.
  
  
• Physical: Running, jumping, balancing