ALLOWING CHILDREN TO GROW SOCIALLY, EMOTIONALLY, PHYSICALLY, AND INTELLECTUALLY
Pre Nursury
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Where young children begin to make meaningful connections within the classroom and beyond.
Young children come into the world with a breathtaking drive to learn. They are powerful thinkers, creators, and problem-solvers and make meaning through their relationships with the people around them and through their interactions with the environment.
Children are naturally inquisitive about the world around them.
Learning is a continuous progressive evolvement of children through exploration in DFS Classrooms!
FOUNDATIONAL EARLY YEARS – PRE-NURSERY (2/3s)
Pre-Nursery serves as a transition from our youngest to mixed-age classes. Tailored for children aged 2 to 3, it introduces Montessori and academic subjects, fostering longer work periods and focusing on social and emotional skills essential for success in a mixed-age environment. Our approach prioritizes each child’s readiness, progressing them based on individual needs, not just age. As children grow, communication skills advance, with expressions of feelings, opinions, and thoughts through verbal and non-verbal means. Your children will begin to appreciate that art, speech, drama, role play, songs and books are different ways of telling a story. Their understanding of the world will involve exploring their immediate environment and resources. During this stage the children will also get better at social skills and problem solving.
Pre-Nursery
Key Development Areas
Brain development
Art & Craft
Music & Dance
Outdoor Learning
Fitness
Relationship-based approach
Physiological Needs
Play-based learning
Fine motor development
Gross motor development
Cognitive Development
Language Skills
Sensory Development
Social-Emotional Health
Building on Writing Skills
Group interactions
School Year Goals
To learn the Alphabet’s phonetic sounds
To learn the symbols and values of numbers 0-20
Writing Letters with help of dots
To encourage vocalisation and asking for what they want
To encourage sharing, waiting of turns, waiting in line
To encourage awareness of self and others
To point to things as answer to Teacher’s question
Saying Please, Thank you, I’m sorry, Hello, Goodbye, I love you when warranted
Basic shapes & colours
Magic Letter (Name initial of self)
To pack away on their own
To sit and listen to Teacher
To sit through a short presentation or story
To crumple, stick, sprinkle and apply glue
To use playground equipment properly and safely
To use potty
Know more about school operations
A Typical Day at First Step
Arrival & Fruit Break
Prayer, Yoga, Rhymes, Music, Conversation & Communication
Circle Time, Show & Tell, Story Session and Vocabulary Introduction
Classroom Academic Activities @ Learning Centers
Meal Break
Free Play
Dispersal – BYE BYE
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