Language The Pre-K focuses on language as a vehicle of thought. Children learn to develop language skills that are begun at home. Children learn to listen to stories and poems for literary experience. Children learn to listen to topic books to be informed. Children learn to join in and follow along in the reading of old favorites in enlarged texts.
Children learn to browse books independently.
Adults write in front of and with children and encourage them to write at their own developmental level. Children talk, talk, talk, talk. The Pre-K mathematics program focuses on numbers, numerals, counting, measuring, shapes, and patterns. Children use objects to represent mathematics concepts. Children learn math concepts directly by using manipulatives.