Sharonville United Methodist Nursery School...... Established in 1968!

OUR CURRICULUM INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING KEY UNITS:

Child gains:

• Confidence by separation from parent.
• Trust and language skills by sharing about themselves and families.
• Understanding of celebration of love on a preschool level.
• Knowledge that God loves us.
• Help getting along with peers and teacher.
• Understanding about sad and happy and how it makes us feel.

LANGUAGE SKILLS included:
DEVELOPED IN ALL THE UNITS THROUGH THE YEAR

• Receptive skills (listening)
• In group time, children practice staying on topic.
• At the art table children follow directions.
• With classroom rules children learn to listen and respond.
• Expressive skills 
• In circle time, each child is encouraged to orally take part
• During social time, children learn to talk and create oral stories or scenarios to “play”.

• Free play using:
• Shape and number manipulatives that reinforce vocabulary and number recognition;
• sets of similar objects in the sensory table to help quantification skills grow.
• Circle time using:
• Finger plays, songs and instruments to reinforce naming, counting and recognition skills.

• Vocabulary, science knowledge and observation skills as they talk about the weather using a  felt board at circle time.
• The concept of how to dress for the seasons.
• Understanding of God’s wonderful spring plants.
• The understanding of the seasons with a walk out doors to feel and look at the changes of the seasons.
• The feel of and vocabulary about pumpkins
• Science concepts and vocabulary growth as children explore the beach and what lives in the ocean.
• Color recognition- red, blue, yellow and green are reinforced in vocabulary and recognition through manipulatives, art activities and finger plays.

• Vocabulary of the child’s body by using a felt board person, whose name is Be Ba Bo.
• Self -esteem when a Sharonville Policeman visits the school to talk with the children about   Halloween safety (not Wed. program).                                  
• Knowledge of safety when a Sharonville Fireman talks about keeping them safe and how he can be trusted in an emergency ( not included for Wed. program). 
• Knowledge of safety in our building (stay with another mom or teacher)