Rainbow Child Development

Pre-Kindergarten Program

Rainbow Child Development Center provides an educational play-based curriculum to stimulate your child’s environment enabling them to become active learners. Your child has the opportunity to experiment and explore to enhance their individual progress.

The Creative Curriculum focuses on your child’s development in four areas; social/emotional, cognitive, language and physical. The curriculum works with these four areas and has defined goals within each area of development. Preschoolers are learning to develop through different ages and stages.

Social/ emotional development is learning to trust. Children build confidence to develop their independence and feel a sense of pride. Social/emotional development is increased in both areas of independence and socializing. Children enjoy building friendships through group activities and also like doing things alone. Five year olds begin attending to their own personal needs and are learning how to be polite and tactful.

Children are learning to understand and classify objects, typically sorting by one characteristic at a time. Preschool children are intrigued by the cause and effect of why things happen the way they do. They are very curious and imaginative as they learn to separate reality from fantasy. Five year olds learn concepts through discovery and experimentation. They begin to problem solve and make predictions by looking at the things around them and what they already know. They understand how the same object can have two features or concepts.

Children are beginning to talk in sentences and express needs, ask questions, and recite simple rhymes. They will participate in conversations and share their thoughts. Children understand action words and they like to communicate often using big words to describe their actions. Five year olds learn to communicate in sentences and even sometimes paragraphs. They are learning to apply their communication skills through reading and writing.

Children enjoy gross motor activities that involve outdoor play and they look forward to quiet time as well. They are learning to control their muscles, which helps them to quickly move about during outdoor play. Most preschoolers have begun to build fine motor coordination with increasing control. Five year olds have gained increased control with both gross and fine motor skills. During this age children have more control with scissors, paint brushes and pencils when learning how to write letters and their names.

Rainbow Child Development Center understands each child develops differently and through different planned activities. We observe children to continually change our classroom environment to meet the needs of all children.