Programs

Goals: What we want to accomplish with the children

Coleeta Daycare uses the Ohio Preschool Standards to drive the lessons that help our children grow. We provide Preschool Classrooms and Kindergarten Prep. Below are some examples of what your children will learn in each subject.

Language Arts:

Learn how to communicate using sign language.
Identify own name in print.
Recognize and name some upper and lowercase letters in addition to those in first name.
Print letters of own name and other meaningful words with assistance using mock letters and/or conventional print.

Math:

Count to 10 in the context of daily activities and play.
Demonstrate one-to-one correspondence when counting objects.
Sort, order, and classify objects by one attribute (e.g., size, color, shape, use).

Social Studies:

Begin to use the language of time units (e.g. day, night; yesterday, today, tomorrow).
Identify personal characteristics such as gender, physical attributes and family composition within one's own cultural context.
Demonstrate autonomous (self-initiated) cooperative behaviors, such as: [helping, turn taking, sharing, comforting, and compromising.]

Science:

Show awareness of changes in the weather as well as use weather and season related vocabulary.
Identify and demonstrate the safe use of developmentally appropriate tools such as: scissors, hammers, scales, writing utensils.
Participate in simple scientific explorations with others (e.g. digging to the bottom of the sandbox or testing materials that sink and float.)

See what we are working on currently in the classroom.

Sample Themes

Below is a list of sample themes we have previously used at the daycare. Each week we focus on a new theme.

The Size and Shape of Things:

Shape sorting (math)
Shape concentration (manipulative)
Shape collage (art)
Play dough shapes (sensory)
Discussed differences between the shapes (lang. arts)

Primary Colors (Red, Yellow, Blue):

Color wheel: 3 primary colors make 3 new colors (lang. arts, art)
Mixing with finger paint….What's the new color? (lang. arts, art, sensory)
Color mixing magic (water and food coloring in 2 different colors) (science, lang. arts)

Transportation:

How did you get to school? (graph)
Car tracks (paint and cars) (art)
Gas station and mechanic shop (dramatic play)
Car and truck sort (math)
Banana boat snacks (manipulative)