Ages 3 to 5
Preschool promise program is for families that live in the state of Oregon and qualify by living at or below 200 percent of the Federal Poverty Level in Oregon. Before entering the PSP program, families must fill out an application at https://preschoolhub.org/interest-form/ and get approved. To work with this program, we receive guidance from different agencies including the Oregon Department of Education, Department of Early Learning and Care, Early Learning Hub, and CCR&R.
We currently have 14 slots in our Preschool Promise Classroom for this program. Through the day children do different activities using different materials that will help them to reinforce their skills and prepare them for kindergarten. Children are observed for the purpose of measuring their progress, identifying their needs, planning activities, and sharing that information with parents. We use the Creative Curriculum and Preschool Unit to plan learning activities that support social/emotional, physical, and cognitive development as well as language, literacy and math acquisition.
Preschool Promise classroom includes developmentally appropriate toys and materials on each of the designated areas for blocks, manipulatives, literacy, art, reading, music, and dramatic play. In our program, children are observed for the purpose of measuring their progress, identifying their needs, planning activities, and sharing that information with parents. We ask parents to work with us in creating goals and making plans to help their children to succeed. To record children's observations we use the Teaching Strategies Gold tool.
As a result of our observations we create 3 reports a year. Those reports should show children progress in the areas of social, emotional, cognitive language, physical, literacy and math. We ask parents to meet with us at least 3 times a year for conferences. We talk about the observations, goals, plans and other information that they may want to share with us. During the first 45 days of entering the program children are evaluated using an Ages and Stages Questionnaire that will help us to identify their communication, problem solving, personal social, gross motor, and fine motor needs and strengths. If a child falls below the expectations in any of the areas, we talk with the parent about referring the child to a specialist.
Ages 3 to 5
In this classroom, children follow a daily routine with activities that support all areas of development. Each activity is planned taking into account the needs of each child and the learning standards for their age. Observations are made for the purpose of measuring each child's progress and needs, planning activities, and sharing information with families through scheduled conferences. During our conferences with families, we talk about what teachers have observed in the classroom, goals, plans to meet the goals and other information that we or that family may want to share.
For activity planning we use The Creative curriculum that focuses on the social, emotional, cognitive, physical, language, mathematics and literacy areas. We also use the Preschool Unit Curriculum that focuses on the areas of literacy, math, science, art social studies, fine motor, sensory, gross motor, music, circle time, and social/emotional. During the first 45 days of entry, the child is assessed using the Ages and Stages Questionnaire. If the child falls below expectations in any of the areas of communication, problem solving, gross motor, fine motor, and personal social, we discuss with the family about making a referral to a specialist in the field to guide us in the process of helping the child meet the expectations.
Ages 1 to 3
In this room we have an established routine and throughout the day the children have the opportunity to do different activities that support all areas of their development. We are open from 7:00am-4:00pm in this classroom. Although children are under the age of 3 we provide an early preschool to our children in the infants and toddlers classroom. They follow the same routine as our preschool classrooms and do similar activities that are age appropriate.
The furniture is at the children's height and the materials are appropriate for their level of development. Teachers have extensive knowledge of student development and are willing to work in partnership with families to identify the needs of each student. Observations are made to measure progress and conferences are scheduled with families to share the progress and needs of each child in the classroom.
To measure the progress of the children we use Teaching Strategies Gold. As a guide to prepare activities we use the Creative Curriculum that focuses on the social, emotional, cognitive, physical, language, mathematics and literacy areas. We also use the preschool unit curriculum that focuses on the areas of literacy, math, science, art, social studies, fine motor, sensory, gross motor, music, circle time and social/emotional development. During the first 45 days of entering the program we send home an Ages and Stages Questionnaire to identify communication, problem solving, personal social, gross motor, and fine motor needs and strengths. If the results show that the child is below the expectations on one or more of the areas, we discuss with the family about referring the child with a specialist in the field.
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