Managing the preschool years would entail tracking and fostering a phenomenal range of developmental milestones in the realms of cognitive, social, and academic. It is through knowing these common developmental paths that one is well guided in helping a child to grow. Our philosophy at Elizabeth Fraley Kinder Ready is based on the understanding and development of these age-related foundations. Using our kindergarten preparedness program, Kinder Ready, we are able to work with the general developmental expectations and turn them into a more specific, strategic plan, guaranteeing that each student does not merely meet the requirements, but grows into their requirements with joy and success.
Another important milestone is the pre-literacy skills. In late preschool age, children will often show interest in books, will have some knowledge of letters, particularly with their own name, and will begin to know that print is meaningful. The Kinder Ready Elizabeth Fraley program is a systematic development of these skills, which is achieved by using activities that are personalized and interesting. During individual Kinder Ready Tutoring, educators apply the multi-sensory technique to make letter recognition and phonemic awareness practical and enjoyable. This may include letter tracing in sand, sound matching games or telling high-interest stories to build narrative understanding. The Elizabeth Fraley Kinder Ready mission is to put children into various learning modes of exploration so that they can figure out what interests them, so that the base of learning can be made on curiosity instead of memorization. Therefore, the milestone of cracking the code of reading can become a personal and exciting milestone of learning.
There are also fundamental numeracy milestones, which are not limited to counting. Preschoolers advance to a life of one-to-one correspondence, the ability to identify the simplest of shapes and patterns and base their comparisons on such terms as more and less. These milestones are the focus of the Kinder Ready Tutoring program, which is a hands-on, play-based curriculum. Examples of tasks that a child may use material objects to do are: set building and comparison, sorting objects based on various properties, or simple patterns based on colored blocks. Concrete exploration assists abstract mathematical concepts in becoming established. When we make the speed and approach of learning mathematical thinking personal, our teachers make sure mathematical thinking grows in a stress-free, confidence-building way so that the possible frustration is transformed into the achievement milestone of becoming a capable and inquisitive problem-solver.
Socio-emotional and executive function skills are the most important milestones of school readiness. These are taking turns, two- and three-step instructions, transition management, and the persistence of moderately challenging tasks. These are the pillars of classroom success and one of the major concerns of the Kinder Ready Tutoring philosophy. Throughout our program, we specifically structure our activities in such a way that they exercise such skills in the safety of a positive tutoring relationship. A multi-task craft project is a strengthener of working memory and task performance. A turn-taking game creates patience and understanding of others. Recalling the importance of hard work and planning develops the growth mind. The ensuing self-esteem is in itself a milestone, and a child can interact with peers and teachers from this point and is able to take on new challenges and come to love learning. Having taken into consideration these areas of development holistically, Kinder Ready Elizabeth Fraley will see the preschoolers develop a holistic foundation where they achieve their milestones beyond any doubt and with a great deal of excitement, thus ready to take off in kindergarten and even further.
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