Welcome to Preschool3 and 4

Marmara

Daily programme

PYP UNITS OF INQUIRY

• WHO WE ARE-How I have grown and changed• HOW WE EXPRESS OURSELVES- Productions

and creativity• HOW THE WORLD WORKS- • Inventions• SHARING THE PLANET- Plants

INTEGRATED SUBJECTS

• LITERACY: Expanding English Vocabulary, Pre-emergent reading and writing, communication skills.

• MATHEMATICS-Number, patterns, shapes, colours, measurement.

• ARTS: Visual, musical, Dramatic movement• SCIENCE:exploration of our world• SOCIAL STUDIES: Who we are• PHYSICAL EDUCATION: Movement and spatial

awareness.

ESSENTIAL AGREEMENTS

• Be caring and open-minded• Be principled• Be safe• Be a communicator: use your words• Be a listener and a thinker

Learning Through Play

• Play-based activities help your child to learn independently.

• Different skills are used to help your child to grow and develop through play.

Cognitive Skills through Play

• Each area of play builds on the development skills your child needs.

• The areas your child chooses each day helps them to reinforce skills they need for their development.

Benefits of play

• Importance of play• Why should we let our children play?• How does play help my child to learn?• Play is the work of childhood.• Play is interaction with the real world.• Play is how a child learns.• Play allows children to develop in physical,

social, emotional and cognitive development.

How does my child learn through play?

• Discovery• Inquiry• Problem solving• Cooperation• Persistence• Oral language• Creativity

Play in First Language

• Allows children to formulate ideas in their first language.

• If your child has a good grounding in their first language they will transfer skills to another language easily and quickly.

• Children will learn at different rates.• Children will express themselves in a new

language when they are ready.

What areas of play are their in the classroom environment?

• Dough• Sand• Paint• Water• Construction• Home Corner• Outdoors

What are the specific skills my child learns in play?

• Physical• Cognitive• Language• Emotional• Social

RELEVANT LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT

• Language is in all dramatic play activities. • Talking and listening skills are developed

through dramatic play. • In role play children experiment with

language.

Physical Skills

• Using tools and mastering how to use these.• Development of fine motor skills• Hand-eye coordination• Manual dexterity and control of • hand movements

Cognitive

• Measurement, mass and volume• Explore textures• Explore shapes, number and money• Understanding the nature and properties of

materials

Emotional

• Creating in an independent way• Pretending to have power and showing

emotions• Understanding the world• Express a range of feelings

Social

• Co-operative play• Parallel play• Equipment sharing• Solitary

How can I help my child at home?

• Read to them daily.

• Listen to their stories.

• Go on nature walks.

• Play with them at their level.

• Give your child structure and boundaries.

• Be consistent.

HOUSEKEEPING

• Phone tree• Child illness• IICS website• Room parent: Susanna Ravasi• Snack• Cupcake days• Arrivals and dismissals

Questions