Language, Literacy and Communication

Language, Literacy, and Communication

Your child has been learning language and communication skills from the very beginning of life.  Early on they cried, cooed, laughed, and used facial gestures to let you know what they wanted or needed.  Then they moved on to babbling, pointing, and eventually verbally communicating.  In preschool, we help your children continue their journey of communicating through conversations, play, activities, and more.  The games and activities we do in preschool are deliberately chosen and designed to help your child increase their ability to communicate verbally and build the base of their knowledge of the written language.

Below are a few examples of the games and activities that we do during preschool that helps them along in this language, literacy, and communication journey.

The preschoolers spend a lot of time learning about their names: recognizing, matching, "building", tracing, writing, and reading their own name first and then their family's and friends' names.

We play a lot of games with letters.  Many of the games also work on small motor skills and taking turns.

  

The students love to work on puzzles!  Alphabet puzzles help them learn what the letters look like, give them an example (through a picture) of something that begins with that letter (letter sound), and give them an opportunity to work on spacial orientation, planning, and fine motor skills.

 

Over the two years that your child may attend our preschool, they will progress from learning to recognize their name to building their name, then tracing, copying, and eventually writing it. 

Alphabet games are always fun for the kids.  In this game, they take turns and match capital letters with the corresponding lowercase letter.

Some kids are matching capital letters and others are matching upper and lower case letters.