3 to 5 Years
Accelerated Pre-K (3 to 5 years)
At Milestones Academy, we offer accelerated Pre-K program to children between the ages of three and five years old. Children at this age can concentrate longer, make better connections between things and have exceptional abilities to communicate, express their ideas, take risks and make friends. They even begin to understand that other people have important feelings. At our preschool, the four specific areas of learning will have more focus and weight:
Literacy – Storybooks, pre-reading and pre-writing activities and technology integrated literacy games.
Mathematics – Variety of opportunities for children to explore numbers, shapes, data collection, measuring and weighing.
Expressive Arts and Design – Music and movement, arts and crafts, painting and drawing
Understanding the World – Opportunities to learn about other people’s cultures, languages, our local communities and begin to understand pluralism.
Key Essentials:
The Early Years Foundation Stage requires that children in a group setting must be assigned to one adult called their Key Person. The key person approach is a way of giving undivided attention and focus aimed at close attachment of individual children with individual staff members. The key person is responsible to help your child feel settled and familiar with the setting, feel confident and safe within it and for children to feel secure and happy as they explore and try new things in their preschool. Key person experience also ensures that parents have the opportunity to build a personal relationship with one staff member rather than a number of people who work within the childcare setting. The same key person is there to greet your child in the morning, to provide comfort to them if they’re upset, to enjoy time with them and play with them one on one whenever possible or offer intimate bodily care. This staff member will also have other children for whom she is a key person and as part of being skillful at their job is being available for all children at all times.
- Open floor plan
- Soft places
- Natural lighting
- Loose parts
- Developmentally appropriate sized equipment and furnishing
- Pleasant reminders of home in the form of family pictures, boards, music and cultural toys
At Milestones Academy, we realize that children need consistency and a variety of ways to learn. As a response to children’s ages and stages we use high quality developmental toys to help their brains make connections and build strong foundations. Their daily activities include quality story times, yoga, language rich interactions, outdoor time, gym time and variety of opportunities for arts including music, painting, and movement and socializing
Our curriculum broadly supports children’s development through creating environment that encourages their physical, social-emotional and language development. At Milestones Academy, we encourage active learning through materials to explore with all their senses, opportunities to make choices, prospects to communicate their discoveries and feelings and ongoing responsive support of trusted adults every single day. We track children’s growth and development, share their achievements with parents and work together with you to develop common strategies for supporting your child’s development and sense of self.
For safety and security purposes, the classes are equipped with CCTV cameras and recordings are confidential and will not be shared with all the parents through our app. Based on demand or need, the recording of certain periods of time are available for viewing should parents wish to do so.
Depending on children’s readiness and interest, we offer a holistic reading program called Jolly Phonics. Jolly Phonics is the world’s leading literacy program in English, and it teaches children how to read and write using phonics while heavily relying on their pre-reading and pre-writing skills. Phonics is a method used to teach sounds that letters make rather than the names of letters in the alphabet. The sounds are taught in a systemic way along with all other important skills needed for your children to read and write comfortably and confidently through characters, fun actions, stories, songs and interactive games. Learn more about Jolly Phonics here.
In our efforts to meet all the modern learning styles of children, we have a dedicated technology area at Milestones Academy. We use technology to enhance children’s learning in classrooms through intentionally chosen learning applications and programs appropriate for your child’s age. A trained teacher will lead this learning phase and help children make a connection between concepts learned from the technology and concepts they have learned in the classroom.
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