This class is taught by Ms. Laura Bitetto & Ms. Debbie Rosen.  Children will be exposed to a variety of classroom activities, including storytelling, crafts, music, dance, and play.  Activities are focused on a variety of themes that include, but are not limited to, the seasons and holidays.  They will also be introduced to topics such as letters, numbers, holidays, and more.

Nancy Hartelius has over twenty years experience in a program that emphasizes learning through play.  Children will develop necessary skills while participating at a variety of learning centers throughout the classroom.  A strong sense of self-esteem is emphasized.  Her program promotes creativity through crafts and artwork.  Students are introduced into a classroom setting by encouraging cooperative over parallel play.  Circle Time activities include the calendar, seasons, holidays, colors, shapes, letters, numbers, music, dance, and books.

Ms. Meade's class has an academic curriculum based in play. With the use of manipulatives, such as lacing boards, stencils, puzzles, and beads, she focuses on fine motor skills. She incorporates language activities such as books, upper and lower case letters, reading comprehension, and materials for classification and identification. Other language areas addressed are opposites, homophones, and rhythmic words.  Science and math activities include gardening, water and sand tables, cooking, and weather.  Art activities to practice fine motor as well as entice creativity include paints, crayons, cray-pas, gluing, cutting, and play-doh.  Activities are complete both in groups and independently.  Large muscle activities include balls, balance beam, trampoline, and wheel toys.  Building activities include blocks, work bench, and tools, Legos, and Lincoln Logs.  Dramatic activities include kitchen and grocery store, dress-up, dolls, doll houses, and tree house.  Music activities include CD player, guitar, rhythm sticks, and accordions.  Educational activities include books on tape, circle time (which includes, but is not limited to, learning the calendar, learning about the seasons, practicing letters, numbers, and sight words).  Story time includes books being read to practice rhyming, letters, sounds, and story comprehension.  Math activities include counting, skip counting, graphing, and learning the plus/minus/equal symbols and what they are used for.