Parents:  Here are some examples of the skills your child will
    learn and practice during a typical day in a family day care
    setting.

    Your child/children will be on a Professionally planned preschool curriculum called "Mother
    Goose Time."
    Mother Goose Time offers packets of themed based hands-on activities and arts and crafts,
    providing a balance of important preschool skill experiences for 2 1/2  to 5 year old children.

    Mother Goose Time curriculum fulfills the Head Start Domain Elements, Standards and Indicator
    guidlines, and is consistant with the National Association for the Education of  Young Children
    guidlines for curriculum content.     
                                                                       
                                                      Mother Goose Time Link

    Finding toys or learning material to work by self or with others
    Cognitive: Makes decisions about interests and abilities.
    Self-help: Finds toys by himself or sets up environment for play.
    Social/Language: Learns to share, barter, manage conflict, and ask for help.
    Emotional: Learns about acceptance and rejection.  Expresses needs.

    Block Play
    Physical: Learns to balance blocks and line them up (small motor coordination).
    Cognitive: May count blocks, sees pattern and design.  Learns to build and plan structure.  Matches
    blocks that look alike.
    Social: Learns to share and cooperate.

    Dramatic Play
    Social: Plays adult roles.  Develops self-image and coordinates with others.
    Language: Learns to express self in another role.
    Cognitive: Decides appropriate dress and apperance for role; uses visual perceptions to assess
    self, others, and play environment.  Learns and remembers behaviors to imitate.  Developes
    abstract thinking abilities.
    Self-help: Dresses self.  Sets up play environment and finds props.

    Story Time or Listening to Music
    Cognitive: Listens and retains information.  Follows story line (sequencing) with eyes and/or ears.  
    Recognizes words, pictures, instruments and rhythms.

    Fingerplays and Songs
    Cognitive/Language: Learns words, gestures, and melody (sequencing, repetition, speech and
    listening skills).  Follows directions.
    Physical: Coordinates movements (large motor).

    Dance
    Cognitive/Language: Listens to music and rhythms.  Learns to understand simple movement
    directions and their relationship to the music.
    Physical: Coordinates movements (large motor).

    Climbing/Riding
    Cognitive: May count the rungs to the top of a climbing structure; plans his climb.  Maps out direction
    and distance to ride; watches for others in path.
    Physical: Large motor coordination, balance.
    Social: Takes turns, interacts.

    Sand Play
    Cognitive: Measures sand and maps out roads (spatial relationships).
    Physical: Pours, dumps, pushes, gathers, scoops, packs (small and large motor).
    Social: Shares, interacts, cooperates.

    Putting Toys Away
    Cognitive: Sorts toys, follows directions.
    Physical: Places object on the shelf, replaces lids, opens and shuts doors.
    Social: Takes turns, learns to handle toys carefully.
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