It’s hard to find a truly developmentally appropriate preschool these days. It seems that the idea of a “rigorous curriculum” gets pushed down to our younger students and we easily lose focus of what the true purpose of education is.While doing a fine and gross motor development workshop featuring “Motor Skills for Academic Success: Motor Moms and Dads Program” and “Finger Funatics Fine Motor Development Program,” I stumbled upon one of the most AMAZING preschool programs in Denton, Texas. It is called Gonzalez School for Young Children. It has a school setting scaled down to a comfortable size for children, with every wing designed to form a neighborhood reflective of Denton. It is evident that these teachers understand good early childhood pedagogy!
Gonzalez School for Young Children.
Pictures Descriptions:
Top left: RTI board that charts progress.
- Top middle: Tubs for teacher checkout that have unit plans for age appropriate exploration centered around a “community” theme.
- Top right: School Library
- Middle left: Preschool teachers at my workshop working on cutting out a circle with their non-dominate hand to feel the experience of how children sturggle with cutting (they didn’t do so well).
- Middle right: school kitchen where students bake goodies and have real life experiences.
- Bottom left: School Fire Station, where fires are put out with the School Counselor!
- Bottom middle: school post office. Bottom right: tricycles to promote gross motor development
If you are an early childhood educator, you’re in luck!
We are offering a sale on: “Motor Skills for Academic Success: Motor Moms and Dads Program”
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and
“Finger Funatics Fine Motor Development Program”
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Finger Funatics also has a parent companion available for purchase. What a great way to help bridge the gap between home and school!
Both of these programs have screeners to find out where the students are developmentally, so appropriate interventions can be put into place!
Use the coupon code: EARLYCHILDHOOD to receive 15% off either product when making a purchase in October!