Unlock Your Child's Potential with VPK in Pembroke Pines

• Advanced Cognitive Development

• Technology based Curriculum

• Computers and Coding

• Memorization and Identification

• Reasoning Skills

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Language

To support language development and emergent writing skills, teachers:

• Encourage children to use more complex sentences.

• Encourage children to contribute to group conversations.

• Encourage children to retell familiar stories using props.

• Help children recognize their own name in print.

• Provide tools for children to create writing marks in sand and other media with a stylus.

• Help children begin to recognize most uppercase and some lowercase letters.

• Encourage children to draw to tell stories, dictate their stories to their teachers, and use invented spellings to label their work.

• Encourage children to retell familiar stories using props.

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Math

Children use math to solve problems, create plans and interpret the world around them. To encourage the exploration of math concepts, teachers:

• Provide board games with opportunities to count and compare quantities.

• Encourage children to match patterns of items and creating their own patterns.

• Have children help set the table, count items to ensure that each member of the class has what they need.

• Encourage children to talk about the sequence of events.

• Encourage children to create and extend patterns.

• Encourage children to name and write numbers 0-10.

• Use position terms such as above, below, beside, and between.

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Science

Children are given opportunities to engage in hands-on scientific exploration and predict outcomes of experiments. To help children explore science concepts, teachers plan scientific experiments such as:

• Encourage children to sort objects based on different attributes and explain their reasoning.

• Mixing baking soda and vinegar and have children observe what happens.

• Experiment with colored water so children can examine primary colors and create secondary colors

• Plant seeds and have children predict growth patterns and document their observations.

• Provide classroom objects to create simple machines to enhance their play.

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Social/Emotional

Our teachers help children learn how to:

• Identify their emotions and the emotions of others.

• Use words and actions to effectively express how they feel.

• Regulate their emotions with adult support, if needed.

• Maintain friendships.

• Play with peers for an extended period of time.

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Physical

The curriculum incorporates gross (large) motor development and also personal care routines. Children learn to:

• Demonstrate coordination and balance in a variety of activities.

• Communicate about foods that will keep them healthy.

• Demonstrate basic safety practices.

• Attend to personal care practices with minimal help from adults.