High 5

The High 5 program prepares each child for the critical transition from preschool to kindergarten. The program assures that each child will be ready for the academic and social challenges of the kindergarten classroom. Our weekly structured curriculum focuses on developing, sharpening and reinforcing art, science, math, writing, reading and social skills. Our teachers help to strengthen each child’s decision making and self-help skills in a safe supportive classroom environment.

Our High Five Class provides our students with kindergarten readiness opportunities while promoting hands-on and cooperative learning, social interaction and problem solving. Your child will have the opportunity to practice the following skills:

• Recognize, identify and write upper and lowercase letters
• Letter-sound correspondences
• Read common high-frequency words by sight
• Blend and segment onsets of single-syllable spoken words
• Practice fine motor skills
• Copying, extending and creating patterns.
• Compose and decompose numbers up to 10 with objects.
• Create and read a simple graph.
• Identify 2-D and 3-D shapes by distinguishing similarities and differences.
• Practice many other kindergarten readiness skills.

Classroom:

The High 5 classroom is set up to allow preschoolers to involve themselves in independent decision making in their classroom. The children can explore dramatic play, literary activities, discovery science projects, a quiet reading area and a building and construction area.

We use the Handwriting Without Tears Curriculum.  The Handwriting Without Tears curriculum draws from years of innovation and research to provide developmentally appropriate, multisensory tools and strategies for your classroom. The program follows research that demonstrates children learn more effectively by actively doing, with materials that address all styles of learning.

Schedule:

9:00         Arrival Work/Pledge of Allegiance
9:10         Bible Story/Prayer Time/Calendar
9:35         Curriculum (Core Subject)
10:00      Centers
10:20      Snack
10:35      Curriculum (Core Subject)
11:00      Recess/Large Motor
11:15      Story time
11:40      Dismissal

All snacks must be peanut free! Here are some ideas of what you could bring: Fruit snacks, Graham crackers, dried fruit, cheese crackers, Ritz crackers, boxed cereal, vanilla wafers, veggies straws, pretzels or teddy grahams.