Daycare
Exploragym Preschool offers exciting opportunities for your child. We present a great variety of enrichment activities, in addition to exclusive, especially designed curriculum and activity guide. This goes hand in hand with our perceptual movement activities in our enticing gym room.
Our experienced and tenured staff will make sure your child has everything to be happy, and secure while you they are with us. We now offer extended hours and full time care to accommodate working parents!
Call us on available class openings. We will happily try to accommodate your needs.
Below is sample of activities of a four-year old class:
Early Drop Off 8:15 am
Teacher’s greeting,
Sign in day and time:
THEME: Posted each week with any special instructions for parents on bulletin board.
LETTER: The Letter of the Week is posted, and children may bring one item to share which has the first letter of it’s name beginning with letter of the week, and place it in the sharing basket.
9:00-10:00 FREE PLAY: Free play always has new and interesting ingredients in the art cart, play house, block and truck area and puzzle table, to interest a child when arriving. Our gym room has weekly changes with a new floor plan that makes new challenges for the children when they come in at the first of the week. We always have something inviting for the children to do on the table near the door as they say goodbye to Mom or Dad and teachers are there to interact with your child in welcome. Exploragym is a very warm and friendly place to be.
Free play is an important part of the day. It is our plan that free play will become a catalysis, a favorite time, when your child will interact in unstructured play with friends. It is an important ingredient to social development.
10:00-10:15 CIRCLE TIME:
“Good Morning Song”
“Days of The Week Song”
“Months of the Year Song”
“Counting Song” (Spanish)
Story: Relating to the theme. Math Activities During Circletime: Concepts: Which number is larger? Which number is smaller?
NUMBER GAME: “Number Bingo”
Developing Listening Skills: “What color are you wearing? “If you are wearing green, you may go to wash your hands for snack.” Teacher continues, sometimes saying the color about an article of clothing, like if you are wearing pink socks, you may go wash your hands, etc.
10:30:-10:45 Snack Time: Graham crackers, and on Thursdays we do a cooking project where children measure, combine ingredients, stir, and then we bake and eat what we made.
10:45-11:30: Bathroom Break, then Outside Time
11:30-12:00 Daily Art Project: The planned activity is centered around what the children are studying this week, will involve painting, printing, folding, cutting, stamping activities. We use non toxic water based tempra paints formulated in Sweden. We also like to use liquid water colors, colored chalk, glue, and other items to
make a creative art experience.
12:00-12:30: Lunch we have children bring their own lunches. Children and teachers all eat lunch togther, those who need their lunches warmed, have them heated in the microwave. Following lunch,the children have an organized motor movement activity in the gym room.
1:00-2:00 Science Class: Three days a week, we hold Science class for all children staying in our all day program. On the other two days, the children have free play activities from 1:00-2:00.
2:00-4:00 Naptime and table top play in the Classroom: Some parents request a rest time/nap for their children.
We provide cots for a time for quiet play, reading books, puzzle play, and other table top activities during this time.
4:00-6:00:Classroom activities:
1.Bathroom Break,
2.Afternoon Snack,
3.Outside Play,
4.Clean up
5.Free play in the classroom
6.Parents arrival
