Dove Day School
Big futures come from small schools.
Preschool
In the early years we are interesting people, the world is new to us and we are engaged in exploration and discovery.
The Early Childhood educator uses the child's state of perpetual inquiry, providing activities and materials to reach developmental and educational goals.
Learning happens with every
sense in every moment.
ART is child produced because mastery of materials comes from regular exposure and confident self expression requires that the teacher stay out of these creations.
Science: Both messy and passive science are in use to keep 'why?' alive in the classroom and to illustrate the satisfaction of a good question.
Here the children prepare a mound of sand for a 'volcano'.
Music: Rote memorization is pre literacy but singing is fun. Rhythm instruments and familiar recordings are also used.Each day your child will find play in fine and gross motor, cognitive goals, pre-literacy and logic, social, and sensory activities.
While themes are planned a year in advance, one week of every four remains available for 'emergent curriculum'. This is when the teacher expands on the children's interests. We had a week on trash trucks! How awesome is that?
Junior Kindergarten (for ages 4 & 5)
Come and see how academics are blended into play and routine to prepare our students for school. They learn letters and numbers, write their own names and some are even tying shoes. Accomplishments abound.
The platform where the wonder of trash trucks was first discovered.
Rainbow Room (for ages 2 & 3)
The expert play of the three year old attracts the attention of the two year old. The three year old gets to be a hero daily showing off their skill and wisdom to the impressed two year old. The teachers use small age specific groups to elaborate on skills and concepts. This classroom offers potty training!
Infants (ages 2 to 23 months)
Appropriate Perspective brings the necessities of the infant's day to the infant's level. The 'high chair' has been replaced by a 5" height chair that lets even the smallest eater plant their feet on the floor. Adults have to get on the floor too because the most important people in the room are SHORT. There's tummy time, walks and plenty of holding and talking for the belly babies and the more experienced infants participate in craft, sensory discovery, buggy rides, outside play, and singing 'circle time'.
The tummy time area is kept apart from the active space.
Your baby's day takes place on the floor.
