As the children of Early Childhood School of Georgetown migrate on their developmental journey into Preschool, they also enter the second floor of our Victorian house. This geographical  move not only marks each child’s progression physically, but also allows each preschooler the emotional and cognitive recognition he and she deserves. The three classrooms upstairs are designed to celebrate every child’s growth as well as their eventual graduation from the early childhood environment, into the beginning of his and her primary school education.Early Childhood School of Georgetown has two preschool rooms. Each room contains a blend of children, aged 2.9 months to 3.11 years old. This heterogeneous developmental mix offers huge motivation to the younger children in building their self-initiation skills. This also provides the older children an opportunity to build self-confidence, model team mentality and to build leadership roles.

Preschool Curriculum

• Each day begins with Morning Meeting, which:
  • Fosters positive social skills
  • builds on self-control initiative
  • creates a place and designated time to plan for and prepare for the day
  • creates a place and designated time to review curricular and pro-social goals
  • offers opportunity to learn and build upon calendar skills, weather awareness and name recognition
• Self-help skills are an important focus- Preschoolers practice skills such as putting on coats unassisted, personal hygiene, healthy snack choices and problem solving
• Language and Literacy Development:
  • Children have multiple opportunities each day to practice fine motor skills with name tracing, cutting, coloring, pasting and teacher-directed/thematic-based activities
  • ECSG  celebrates the Letter  and Number of the Week program
  • Preschoolers are inspired to build on emergent literacy skills with weekly practice during Writer’s Workshop activities, journaling, and daily play in our Writing Center
• Mathematical Conceptualization:
  • Children nurture logical thinking skills, number recognition, weather, sequencing skills, days of the week, seasons, and months of the year during daily morning meeting
  • Comprehending patterning, sorting, shapes and size are mathematical skills that are integrated, introduced and built upon with in the daily implementation of various thematic units
• Science/Social Studies Skills:
  • Preschool Science and Social Studies Curriculum consists of weekly and bi-weekly thematic developmentally appropriate units
  • Examples of weekly themes are transportation, magnets, farm life, exploring comparison through size and shape, and much more!
  • Each preschool classroom is equipped with a fun sensory  and or science table; perfect for hands-on exploration based on thematic units
  • Literacy development and numeracy skills are always interconnected with the classroom’s science and social studies’ themes
• Gross Motor Development is nurtured through daily outside playground time