Programs

Goals: What we want to accomplish with the children

Coleeta Daycare follows the Ohio Preschool standards that drive the lessons to help our children grow. We provide PreSchool Classrooms and Kindergarten Prep. Below are some examples of what your children will learn under each category.

• 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.

• 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).

• 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./li>
• Demonstrate autonomous (self-initiated) cooperative behaviors, such as: Helping, Turn Taking, Sharing, Comforting, and Compromising.

• 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 already used here at the daycare. Each week we have a new theme to focus on.

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

• 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 and 2 different colors) (science, lang. arts)

• 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)

How I use Galileo in the classroom

Below is a list of pros for using this nationally known program called Galileo Assessment Technology. This program features:

• ideas for lesson plans: Galileo has activities for teachers to do with the children to help them accomplish the goals.
• · Activities for the children to do on the computer that target a goal through Galileo One of our favorites is the Letter Train. Here, children must find the missing letter on the train there is a point system that records the child's score and will confirm that the child has mastered a particular area e.g. names 9 or fewer letters.
• Child(ren) assessments: allows teachers to see the developmental stages a child is in in each particular learning area. This shows our teachers what goals the child/class has completed (e.g. language and literacy; fine and gross motor) and what areas they need to focus on.
• shows where the class is as a whole in each developmental area: allows teachers to look at the class as one to see what I need to work on with the children
• shows change in a child's development from one period of time to the next: allows teachers to see the developmental change in a child from one specific day to another day (e.g. in a months time). This helps the children to learn at their own pace.