This is what we do every day at Mrs. Danielle's Home Daycare!
"Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood."
-Fred Rogers
Art:
-Developing fine motor skills.
-Engaging in creative expression.
-Improving hand eye coordination.
-Communication ideas.
-Learning about colors.
-Making choices.
-Exploring cause and effect.
Blocks:
-Developing spatial concepts.
-Engaging in cooperative play.
-Improving gross motor skills.
-Exercising my imagination.
-Experimenting with balance.
-Problem solving.
-Learning math skills such as shapes, pattern, size.
-Hypothesizing.
-Building creativity.
-Increasing language skills.
Dramatic play (Home living):
-Developing communication skills.
-Playing cooperatively.
-Trying on different roles.
-Enhancing my imagination.
-Exploring real life situations.
-Speaking.
-Listening.
-Conflict resolution.
-Emotional regulation.
-Courage and growth mindset.
-Creativity and resourcefulness.
-Social skills.
-Problem solving.
-Perseverance.
Manipulatives:
-I am strengthening fine motor skills.
-Learning how to take turns.
-Learning math skills such as shapes, pattern, size, spatial relationships.
-Increasing language skills.
-Determining quantities.
-Practicing following directions.
-Developing hand eye coordination.
-I can take things agpart and put them back together.
Science:
-Developing observation skills.
-Discovering and exploring.
-Making predictions.
-Drawing conclusions from observations.
-Learning new concepts.
-Testing ideas.
-Comparing,
-Discovering how things work.
Puzzles:
-Developing spatial concepts.
-Increasing self confidence.
-Improving fine motor skills.
-Practicing problem solving.
-Exercising our small motor skills.
-Advancing hand eye coordination.
-Enhancing cognitive development.
Books/Letters:
-Developing print awareness.
-Recognizing letters and sounds.
-Improving comprehension.
-Discovering the alphabet.
-Focusing on pre-writing skills.
-Enhancing pre-reading skills.
-Learning letter recognition.
-Toning fine motor skills.
Play dough/Sensory:
-Making observations about shape, weighing,and measuring.
-Developing fine motor skills.
-Improving vocabulary and language skills.
-Learning about capacity.
-Building tactile awareness.
-Experimenting and discovering.
-Observation skills.
-Cause and effect.
-Vocabulary.
-Sharing and taking turns.
-Math and numbers concepts.
-Science concepts.
Reading stories as a group:
-Reading to children introduces story telling and sequencing.
-Childcare settings who read together as a group boost language development and oral skills.
-Reading stories introduce children to early literacy skills like repetition, listing for syllables and rhyming words.
-For children's concentration and promotes a love of books and stories.
Outdoor play:
-Getting fresh air.
-Exploring children's environment.
-Hands on learning.
-Natural environment and parts in the outdoors stimulate children's senses through what they hear, touch, see, and feel.
-Observation.
-Large muscle movement (running, jumping, climbing, ect).
Every day your child is getting ready for school readiness in my home daycare. Here is one of my favorite preschool quotes:
"My Promise to You"
"I promise that each day your child will learn something new.
Some days it will come home in their hand.
Some days it will come home in their head.
Some days it will come home in their hearts."
Mrs. Danielle
