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Emotional/Social Development
Motor/Physical Development
Inappropriate Activities (What your child should not do.)

Disobedience to the rules and disrespect towards both the teacher and classmates is inappropriate because it does not help cultivate self-control and self-concept/self-esteem in others if they are being disrespected. Kids who continue to show disobedience or disrespect after a friendly reminder to change their behavior will sit in time-out. Respect also encompasses cooperating fairly in assignments, activities, and games. Inappropriate activities that encourage such inappropriate behaviors include rough-housing and fighting. Both activities will not be tolerated.
Motor and Physical Development
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Social and Emotional Development
Disobedience to the rules and disrespect towards both the teacher and classmates is inappropriate because it does not help cultivate self-control and self-concept/self-esteem in others if they are being disrespected. Kids who continue to show disobedience or disrespect after a friendly reminder to change their behavior will sit in time-out. Respect also encompasses cooperating fairly in assignments, activities, and games. Inappropriate activities that encourage such inappropriate behaviors include rough-housing and fighting. Both activities will not be tolerated.
Motor and Physical Development
In a classroom, It would be inappropriate to see every child's motor and physical developments as the same. Caregivers and teachers must understand gender diversity in motor play. Giving boys and girls the same opportunities but the teacher must adjust accordingly. It would be very inappropriate to ignore children who might have physical challenging conditions and teachers need to mindful and adjust accordingly to these challenges. It would also be incorrect to have activities where children sit out and don't participate the whole time. Children need to be moving all the time while playing these games. Games like musical chairs where they would have to sit out need to be rearranged to give children all they playing time they can have.

Area 3: Language development
Perhaps one of the most important tasks of our 3 and 4 year olds is learning our language. Here at Sunnyside, we speak English. This language is revealed to our children through words represented by images, such as with picture books, and through games/activities that give understanding to the meaning of what’s being said, such as Simon Says, Legos (when directions are given to make something), and group and one-on-one discussions on books (“what color was the frog?”, etc.). Our goal is to make our kids interested in reading, which is a daily activity in class. In addition to exposing kids to the language and gauging their understanding, Sunnyside’s preschoolers are encouraged to communicate their own thoughts by speaking and writing. Speaking encourages curiosity in a controlled setting, where respect for others when they’re talking is also enforced. In writing, we teach the alphabet, through song and practice, and encourage kids to put their own thoughts and ideas on to paper through drawing. Eventually, the goal is to get them to write full words. The curiosity, understanding, and communication skills we cultivate here at Sunnyside are sure to assist our preschoolers’ further education down the road.
To be avoided:
Don’t want to discourage kids by giving them too difficult of mental operations that they are biologically and cognitively not ready to perform. Such examples that might generate low-self esteem in their own merits and abilities are problems that include concrete and formal operation thinking (if 4+8=12, then 12-4=8; solving problems in head). Also, papers/extensive writing assignments and assessments over extensive memorization would be inappropriate. Finally, teachers should work to avoid interruption from classmates when another classmate is talking. Such behavior would discourage curiosity and expression of ideas. Sources:
Myers. (2009). Psychology In Modules, 9th Edition. New York: Worth Publishers. [retrieved] 10/25/12, from http://www.coursesmart.com/9781429245951/firstsection#
The Connecticut State Department of Education. (2006). Preschool Curriculum Framework. Retrieved from http://www.sde.ct.gov/sde/lib/sde/PDF/DEPS/Early/Preschool_framework.pdf

Cognitive Development
Curriculum Goals:
1) Show ability to reason, question, and remember (schemas/logic)
Our goal is to shape our children’s schemas to encompass an understanding of the basics of counting, the alphabet and writing, objects and animals, and more by guiding them to assimilate and accommodate by encouraging discussions (asking questions), reading, exploration, experimentation and prediction, and sorting/classifying objects into groups (through criteria, comparing and contrasting, recognizing patterns, and ordering objects in a pattern that makes sense [shortest to tallest]). By having our well-trained teachers guide the children to make these associations and observations on their own through such activities, rather than simply feeding them the information, the children remember the information and schemas, which are correct with the help of the teachers, much better. While doing so, the children develop important learning skills. Through predicting during experimentations or reading, children practice reasoning. When predicting what will happen in a book, the children are able to practice their newly developed theory of mind, which is the ability to read intentions and form ideas about others’ mental states. Being encouraged to look through the eyes of the character in the book, our preschoolers also are guided to take another person’s point of view, which helps them ease out of their egocentric perspective. Next, by encouraging questioning, they cultivate a curious attitude towards learning. Also, asking children to recall what they learned through a book or experimentation during the afterwards discussions, the children practice their memory. Each skill is essential for the child’s further education.
Area 2: thinking skills – mental operations/problem solving
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Area 3: Language development
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Sources:
Myers.
To be avoided:
Don’t want to discourage kids by giving them too difficult of mental operations that they are biologically and cognitively not ready to perform. Such examples that might generate low-self esteem in their own merits and abilities are problems that include concrete and formal operation thinking (if 4+8=12, then 12-4=8; solving problems in head). Also, papers/extensive writing assignments and assessments over extensive memorization would be inappropriate. Finally, teachers should work to avoid interruption from classmates when another classmate is talking. Such behavior would discourage curiosity and expression of ideas.
Myers. (2009). Psychology from http://www.coursesmart.com/9781429245951/firstsection#
The Connecticut State Department of Education. (2006). Preschool Curriculum Framework. Retrieved from http://www.sde.ct.gov/sde/lib/sde/PDF/DEPS/Early/Preschool_framework.pdf

Cognitive Development
We don’t want to discourage kids by giving them too difficult of mental operations that they are biologically and cognitively not ready to perform. Such examples that might generate low-self esteem in their own merits and abilities are problems that include concrete and formal operation thinking (if 4+8=12, then 12-4=8; solving problems in head). Also, papers/extensive writing assignments and assessments over extensive memorization would be inappropriate. Finally, teachers should work to avoid interruption from classmates when another classmate is talking. Such behavior would discourage curiosity and expression of ideas.
Social and Emotional Development
Disobedience to the rules and disrespect towards both the teacher and classmates is inappropriate because it does not help cultivate self-control and self-concept/self-esteem in others if they are being disrespected. Kids who continue to show disobedience or disrespect after a friendly reminder to change their behavior will sit in time-out. Respect also encompasses cooperating fairly in assignments, activities, and games. Inappropriate activities that encourage such inappropriate behaviors include rough-housing and fighting. Both activities will not be tolerated.

Tots of Tomorrow: Providing Kids With A Brighter Future
Tots Of Tomorrow was created to help children develop skills that will improve their chances for a promising future. Our goal is to help your child grow and develop properly during their childhood development. Believe it or not, these years are very critical to the years that come and these skills will stick with them throughout their childhood development and mold them into a successful adult. We want the best for them and for their future success. Below are the general areas that we focus your child's development on.
Cognitive Development
Emotional/Social Development
Motor/Physical Development
Inappropriate Activities (What your child should not do.)