Your Preschooler/kindergartner is ready to learn! This age is so curious, and ready to explore the world around them in any way possible. Our Preschooler/kindergarten program is designed to grow this sense of wonder in the children’s minds. This room will be for preschoolers who are more advance and kindergartners that still want to be kids. This room is a perfect mix for 3.5-4.5-year-olds. It will also help relieve the waiting list and times in the other daycare rooms allowing more flexibility and options for parents. The preschool/kindergarten children are co-constructors in developing intellectually by exploring and experimenting the environment around them. The preschool kindergartner’s will be encouraged to use thinking skills and language throughout the day. Each child’s care, play, learning, and development are nurtured as teachers work within a practice of relationships, appreciating family, social, and cultural practices and traditions and embracing a strong capable image of the child, as a mighty learner and citizen. Children are supported to develop self-regulation skills- the ability to adapt their behaviour, attention, emotions, and thoughts in response to what is going on around them (sitting still when appropriate, the ability to defer reward and positive self-talk are a few examples). Children are supported to express pro-social behaviour voluntarily choosing behaviours that help and benefit others, such as sharing and cooperation. In the Preschool/Kinder room, our program encourages the children to build self-help skills such a dressing themselves, toileting themselves, and eating with utensils. Your child will also spend time learning basic academic skills, such as scissor and glue work, proper pencil holding techniques, letter/sound recognition, and writing or tracing letters and numbers. Circle time promotes learning with repetition of important skills for kindergarten success! They will also play outside daily in our large playground, and inside in the room’s vast centers (construction, manipulative’s, loose parts, puzzles/games, kitchen/house, music, and tabletop activities). Children will also experience in house field trips such as a petting zoo, yoga, dance, special guest readers and puppet shows are brought into the centre.