PRE-SCHOOL PROGRAM
EARLY CHILDHOOD LEARNING PROGRAM (ECLP)
SFAC focuses on the following areas to help its preschoolers learn best.
Our preschool curriculum is based on what preschoolers should know and be able to do. Our teachers plan and adapt curriculum to help our children learn and grow. It focuses on the following areas:
- Physical development: It includes gross and fine motor coordination through play and manipulative activities like games, simple works, etc.
- Personal-social development: It involves skills and social behaviors such as respecting viewpoints of others, including the development of health habits, independence, abilities to follow rules and routines. Learning about the family and other people is part of the concerns in this area.
- Personal-social development: It involves skills and social behaviors such as respecting viewpoints of others, including the development of health habits, independence, abilities to follow rules and routines. Learning about the family and other people is part of the concerns in this area.
- Cognitive development: It includes the development of communication skills and sensory-perceptual and numeracy concepts and skills. Communication skills refer to competencies in expressing ideas and feelings both in English and Filipino (oral expression and basic readiness skills of listening, pre- reading and writing). Sensory-perceptual and numeracy skills refer to the ability to observe, discriminate, compare and classify, and to understand, count, read and write numbers.
- Creative-aesthetic development: It includes exploration of sounds, music and rhythms, and the development of children’s creative expression through drawing, painting, manipulative activities, etc.
THE CENTERS
A. 1. FAMILY COMMUNICATION CENTER
This area provides a location for parents to leave and receive messages and or talk with the teacher. This area is used for sharing the children’s milestones and accomplishments.
- A message center or a bulletin board
- Basket of folders
- Display shelf or cabinet for children’s works and photos at work /play
B. TEACHER’S CORNER
- A teacher’s table and chair
- A calendar planner posted for the monthly activities
- Book shelf/cabinet
2. MANIPULATIVE CENTER (BLOCKS)
Children strengthen all areas of their development as they play with blocks, toys, dice, jelly beans, numeral cards, puzzles and games.
Children learn to cooperate with one another by sharing and taking turns, learn to respect viewpoints different from their own but develop confidence when they complete a task successfully.
Children’s small muscles develop and are refined, when they carry and carefully place blocks together, construct with interlocking cubes, practice and develop eye – hand coordination when they carefully balance blocks or lace cards.
Block play promotes a concrete understanding of concepts essential to logical thinking. They learn about sizes, shapes, numbers, areas, length, patterns as they select, build with and put away blocks. This area serves as the Math hub in the classroom.
3. DISCOVERY CENTER (SCIENCE/LITERACY/DRAMATIC PLAY)
In this area, children deepen their understanding of the world and develop the motivation and skills necessary to read, write and discover.
Science
The science center in preschool helps the children learn to investigate the world around them. This center is stocked with magnifying glasses, tweezers, safety goggles and kid-sized microscope. Depending on what the class is learning, they have vegetables to dissect, rocks, shells, insects to observe in the center.
Dramatic Play
A center just for pretend play, a home center acting out favorite stories, running a flower shop, selling produce in a roadside stand, and caring for patients in the ER.
4. ART, MUSIC AND MOVEMENT CENTER
Experiences in this area help develop both sides of the brain and explore their creativity. In this area, are art materials and various musical instruments.
5. COMPUTER LABORATORY
6. OUTDOOR PLAY
SFAC ERICHMENT ACTIVITIES
A. VISUAL PRESENTATION – PHONICS
For correct enunciation and pronunciation so our children will learn to speak clearly and Concisely
B. STORY TELLING
combines all four skills: listening, speaking, reading and writing in a meaningful context (monthly or quarterly)
C. TEACHING AIDS
enhance holistic development of the child so that the transition from preschool to primary be as smooth as possible. This helps the child attain the maximum growth and developmental milestones.
With a well-planned curriculum, a purposeful environment and a well-balanced program of activities, SFAC preschoolers develop positive relationships, are competent and aware, and respond positively to challenges, which lead them to be more successful in grade school and beyond.