| Shir Shalom’s Preschool: The Learning Center
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A Day at The Learning Center
9:00 Come on in!-Children put their “stuff” on their mats and bring an adult with them in the room. This is our transition time. Children are encouraged to walk around the room with their parent and calmly find an activity to do while the rest of the group is arriving.
9:20-The transition numbers come out to get the children ready for Circle Time.
Nobody wants to be interrupted when they are working hard or in the middle of doing something. This prepares everyone for what happens next.
9:30-Circle Time. Circle Time at The Learning Center is not your typical Circle Time. This is an interactive group time. Our focus is getting our mind and body ready to learn. The Hocus Pocus Box may sound magical to the kids but it is a brain warm for the rest of the day. An obstacle course is pure fun for preschoolers but we now know kids in motion get their brain working as well.
9:50-Structured Group. This may be building blocks as a group, creating through different art mediums, journal writing, story-telling on tape, creating snack for later…the ideas are endless.
10:10- What’s Your Plan? Everyone has to indicate what their intentions are for Free Play. They may only attend to it for a short time but once they commit they need to follow through.
10:15-Free Play. Nothing at The Learning Center is without rhyme or reason so Free Play is not free. This is where the young child really learns the playground politics of life. Sharing, taking turns and breaking down the steps to interact with others is at its peak at “Free Play!” All this goes on at the same time they are learning the academics of pre-reading, writing, math, science, etc.
10:45 Transition Activity
Everyone has a turn to wash their hands and then find their placemat at the table. We wait for our friends because that what friends do. Jobs are posted as everyone sets the table
10:50-Snack. We hope this will be a true social event at The Learning Center. We encourage lots of quiet conversation and socializing. By putting on soft music and dimming the lights we add to the ambiance.
11:15-Outside. Weather permitting we go outside everyday! Kids do much better when they get lots of movement. Inside or outside this is the time we recharge our batteries with an assortment of activities.
11:40-Clean-up. Whether you played with it or not everyone gets a chance to pick out something from the Clean-Up Bag. This is usually done in groups of 2 or 3 children so they have to work together! Being able to organize, sort, categorize and work with others is all a part of cleaning up.
11:50-A story! A story! The literature read at The Learning Center always packs a punch! What better way to help children understand their own behavior than hearing about a character that does the same thing in a book! From mitzvahs to tsores, from rhymes to prose, fiction or non fiction early literacy is one of the foundations at The Learning Center.
12:00-Goodbye! Our day is done…Rest up there is always tomorrow!
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