Discovery Kids World
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AFR Christian Child Care Academy
Accelerated Learning & Multiple Language Instruction
Instead of Just child care take advantage of a Great Foundation
90% of brain growth occurs before age 5.
LANGUAGE:
The Spoken Language: The Guide speaks correctly, with absolute clarity, isolating particular abstraction being presented; internalization of the abstraction. “Correct by teaching, not by correcting”.
Language development includes speaking, writing and reading. Pre-reading skills include the development of vocabulary, expression of thoughts, recognition of letters, discrimination of shapes, sequencing, moving left to right and top to bottom.
Pre-writing skills include preparation of the muscles to hold a pencil, preparation of the hand to trace outlines, and the ability to control the pressure when using a pencil.
Reading skills include the use of sandpaper letters, letter sounds, classified pictures, mystery words, blends and digraphs, long vowel patterns, and commercial books.
Writing skills include tracing letters, writing letters on squared, lined, and penmanship paper. Stories are read and discussions are held to increase the childs's verbal, vocabulary, and thinking skills.
Pre-Reading
Because our classroom is multi-age, younger students are constantly exposed to the older children in the class who are already reading.
The total environment of of our classroom
tends to create and reinforce in our young children a spontaneous interest in learning how to read. We begin to teach reading as soon as that interest is first expressed. Younger students recognize the shape and phonetic sounds of the alphabet through the sandpaper letters: a tactile alphabet, and Zoo - Phonics.
Sight words are taught through games and words made into pictures for easy memorization. ( Picture Me Reading Program )
Using a total exposure approach, we help the youngest children to develop a highly sophisticated vocabulary and command of the language. Children are taught to listen and recognize the individual phonetic sounds in words. Children are introduced to literature by reading aloud and discussing a wide range of stories and rhymes.