Children derive enormous benefits from yoga:  Encourages creativity & imaginative thinking; Develops balance, focus, & strength; Teaches body awareness & healthy lifestyle choices; Offers a non-competitive environment to exercise & grow.

Creative Movement

The purpose of creative movement with preschool students is to give them the opportunity to explore what their bodies can do, learn control of their bodies, and become more familiar with spatial awareness.  Through teacher guided activities; the students will gain more experience with following instructions, listening for cues, and respecting the space around them. Props are used such as: bean bags, bouncy balls, hoops, cones, sticks, parachute, etc.

Cooking

The Cooking classes are intended to help children learn some basic concepts of good nutrition and to help children enjoy preparing food. It is encouraging to see children grow in self-confidence as they learn to do this grown-up thing…cooking!

Nutrition

These lessons focus on teaching little learners about good nutrition and proper food choices, trying new foods, and that they need to eat a variety of food every day.Spanish

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Dramatic Play

Imagine the thrill of being “turned loose” in a room all set up for a Hawaiian Luau with grass skirts and leis, hula music, instruments (ukulele, rhythm sticks, and drums)!  Themes change weekly from Grocery Store to Fire Station, to Birthday Party, etc.  Dramatic play allows the students to use their imagination, improve their social skills, and have fun!

Park Walks & Exploration

We take full advantage of having Bidwell Park at our doorstep.  Our program includes short nature walks, animal habitat exploration, visits to the Nature Center, art activities.  We also encourage respect for Bidwell Park, its animals, and its visitors.

Animal of the Month

Two by Two Ranch & Petting Zoo comes monthly with a featured animal to educate and delight our children. From the first squeals of delight to the final pats and waves “goodbye” the kids are intrigued and captivated by their special visitors.

American Sign Language

ASL reinforces the learning of educational concepts such as ABC’s, animals, numbers, colors, months, and other specific themes.  The children will learn to sign their names, learn the signs for objects around them, and ask simple questions, and incorporate signing and songs.

Zoo-phonics® is a method developed to make children strong readers and spellers using a “phono” (hearing), “oral” (speaking), “visual” (seeing), “kinesthetic” (moving), and tactile (touching)—whole brain approach. Students actually learn the sounds of the alphabet and advanced phonemic concepts through an easily understood, concrete method of presentation.

Zoo-phonics® uses animals drawn in the shapes of the letters for ease in memory. A related body movement is given for each letter. This concrete approach cements the sounds to the shapes of the letters.