duck class
The Duck Class is for children that exhibit independence, strong listening skills, and demonstrate excellent self-care and self-control. Children in this class must be fully potty trained, no diapers, or pull-ups.
The teacher in this classroom will incorporate many activities with lots of movement and interaction to keep this busy age group intrigued and learning. The Duck Class is heavily focused on the social person that is emerging by weaving social skills into all the play and learning experiences.
This classroom offers hands-on experiences that are influenced by the interest of the children. Each day is structured to give the child many opportunities to learn with art projects, cooking, science experiments, music, literature, mathematics, and physical play.
Daily circle time offers children the opportunity to sing, share, learn and explore. Nurturing the child’s inherent curiosity is encouraged by enabling the children to explore, discover, and learn though touch, movement, and observation. Children begin to refine their prewriting skills through multi-sensory, hands-on learning. The children begin to investigate the basic elements of pre-math through pouring, sorting, ordering, classifying, counting, block building, and measuring.
Questions are a big part of these children’s development. “Why is the sky blue? Why do birds have feathers?” Questions and more questions. There is plenty of time in the classroom to explore lots of questions.
Children at this age tend to see things that adults find ordinary as very interesting and special such as: sorting, pouring, washing dishes, scrubbing a table and chair, or caring for a plant. When these kinds of activities are introduced in the classroom, the children will become completely absorbed in the activity and work for extended amounts of time.
Pretending and fantasy is much more creative in this classroom. Dress-up and wearing fairy wings while exploring and learning, can be seen in this class.
