• Documents

  • Preschool Program Plan
  • Tweety and Owl Curriculum- 33 months to 4 years old
  • Munchkin Room Curriculum- 4 and 5 years old
  • Preschool Readiness- Is My Child Ready for Preschool?

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  FULL DAY PRESCHOOL PROGRAM 
   

  If you walk into our classrooms you will hear the faint laughter of young children engaged in play and learning at our Nativity Early Learning Center (NELC). The NELC's preschool programs are designed to maximize the educational and social benefits for your child's future success. 
  Your child will experience the joys of learning in their preschool classroom as they explore the following academic areas:
  
  There are six areas of development that our youngest children focus on throughout their days in the preschool programs at the NELC.  These areas follow the MN Early Childhood Indicators of Progress.  We have also added an additional area on Religious Education.
   

  • Social and Emotional Development
    • Emotional Development, Self-Concept and Social Competence and Relationships
  •  Different Approaches to learning
    • Curiosity, Risk-Taking, Imagination and Invention, Persistence and Reflection and Interpretation
  •  Language and Literacy Development
    • Listening, Speaking, Emergent Reading and Emergent Writing
  •  Creativity and the Arts
    • Creating, Responding and Evaluating
  •  Cognitive Development
    • Mathematical and Logical Thinking- Number Concepts and Operations, Patterns and Relationships, Spatial Relationships/Geometry, Measurement and Mathematical Responding
    • Scientific Thinking and Problem Solving- Observing, Questioning and Investigating
    • Social Systems Understanding- Human Relationships and Understanding the World
  •  Physical Motor Development
    • Gross Motor Development, Fine Motor Development and Physical Health and Well Being
  •  Religious Education
    • The children will develop an awareness of God, the bible, learning prayers, empathy, respect and values through developmentally appropriate activities including being kind and loving to each other. We also celebrate all Catholic holidays.