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Key Learning Experiences
Social Skills
 
This is an important focus during the pre-school years. We help children
learn to relate effectively with others through a mentoring process which values
their own ideas along with the teachers guidance.
+ Negotiation
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+ Expressing & Understanding feelings
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+ Interpersonal skills
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+ Understanding the perspectives of others
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+ Cooperation
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+ Group interaction & living skills
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+ Manners
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+ Respect
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+ Children learn to brainstorm and problem solve in the
process of learning
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Language, Literacy, Phonemic Awareness and Pre-Reading
 
Pre-schoolers are encouraged to communicate as they express their
feelings and their thoughts. Learning to communicate effectively and to
use language as a tool for thinking are two of the many goals we have for pre-school
children. BCP uses a literacy program called "Handwriting Without
Tears". This hands on program helps prepare children for Kindergarten in a
developmentally appropriate way. It focuses on writing readiness, strokes, shapes,
letters, and numbers. We also provide many opportunities with print so that children experience
language in written form as well as verbally. Some experiences include:
Alphabet Knowledge
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Print Awareness
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+ Learning to identify and discriminate
differences
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+ Environmental Print
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+ Recognizing letters and words
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+ Dictating stories
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Handwriting Without Tears
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+ Reading signs and symbols
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+Capital
Letters first
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Oral Language |
+ Exploration & Letter Building with
wood pieces
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+ Alliteration |
+ Finger warm ups & grip
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+ Music, Poetry, Rhymes |
+ Magnetic Letters
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+ Whole Language |
+ Mat man
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+ Repetition, Sequencing and Story telling
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+ Roll-a-dough
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Phonological Awareness
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+ Wet,
Dry, Try
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+ Distinguishing letter sounds
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+ Experimenting with sounds
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Art and Creative Expression (Hands-On Approach)
 
At BCP children are provided a wide variety of media with which to interact
and create. It is the process of using these materials that is most
valuable.
+ Self-Expression
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+ Predicting
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+ Sensory-Oriented
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+ Building Self-Esteem
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+ Open-Ended
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+ Problem-Solving
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+ Experimenting
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+ Emphasizing the process
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Math and Cognitive (Hands-On Approach)
 
In Pre-school we work on:
+ Counting
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+ Estimating
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+ Classifying
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+ Measuring
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+ Comparing
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+ Seriating (ordering)
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+ Patterning
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+ Spatial relations
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+ understanding Time and Temporal
relationships
+ One-to-One Correspondence
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Science (Chemistry, Physics, Biology)
 
Children love to explore with their senses! Group experiments and
discussions, and a science area in each room allow opportunities to discover new
things about their world.
+ Observing
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+ Predicting
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+ Questioning
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+ Experimenting
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+ Interpreting
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+ Inventing
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+ Critical Thinking
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+ Cause-Effect Relations
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+ Knowledge of Physical and Natural World
+ Tracking Motion
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Large and Small Motor skills
 
 
These early years are a time of emerging small muscle strength and
coordination for pre-schoolers.
The following activities provide opportunities for the child to grow and develop
critical muscle groups.
+ Running
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+ Jumping
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+ Balancing
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+ Climbing
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+ Throwing
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+ Catching
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+ Creative Movement
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+ Rhythm Activities
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+ Cutting
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+ Stringing
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+ Tracing
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+ Rolling Dough
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