Your child’s preschool success story features “Big Ideas”: overarching concepts that children need to know in life and school. Students learn a new Big Idea weekly themes such as “Making Friends” or “Learning together “or “Community Helpers” and incorporate cultural and social components.
Each Big Idea’s lesson plan teaches and reinforces specific skills. Each builds on the one before and helps fulfill Pennsylvania’s Core Content Standards requirements for kindergarten.
What’s the Big Idea?
Big Ideas lessons repeat and emphasize skills in fun, engaging ways that create mastery. Children love them and learn because they are multi-sensory, geared to individual strengths and challenge more each day. Learning the letter A? Your child may write the letter with a pencil while another finds it in a sandbox and still another engages in a movement act about the letter A. As the Big Idea continues during the week, small groups split off for more practice. Children work on developmental and personal goals and objectives.
