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Home page of Rascal Roundup Childcare facility, a state licensed family child care home which is nationally accredited.One teacher with high qualifications to care for your child to provide stability and security for your children. Our childcare facility offers a preschool curriculum covering the following topic areas: math, science, reading, literacy, dramatic play, social studies, music, physical education, gymnastics, and outdoor activities to stimulate gross motor skills.Safe, secure, clean, and stimulating environment with different learning centers for children to learn and explore through their own natural curiousity. Curriculum is the planned preschool activities to teach each young child the skills you have planned in advance. My philosophy is that all children have the right to learn and grow in a safe and secure environment that meets the needs of the whole child.

Preschool

Preschool operates from 1:00 to 2:30 two days a week during the school year following the Cherry Creek School Schedule.  Parents can choose between two scheduled classes to attend on Monday & Wednesday or Tuesday & Thursday.  Preschool does not run during the summer as we operate a school-age summer program during this time.  Children accepted from 3 1/2 to 5 years of age.

The next preschool session will begin August 20, 2007.  Please contact Dawn to pre-register and save your spot at 303-690-7684 or via email at dawn@rascalroundup.com.  Limit of 8 students per class. 

Preschool children learn through primarily through their senses following  their curiosity.  Providing mostly sheet work is not age-appropriate or developmentally appropriate for a preschool child.  Once a child is four or five years old, it is more appropriate to expect them to learn through sheet work.  I like to take advantage of children's curiosity and supply them with the tools to investigate their world using hands-on activities.  

Hands on activities include Math, Science, Language, Sensory and Art.  I have a variety of manipulatives for cognitive (thinking) skills and to help develop fine motor skills.  The preschool curriculum aids in development of fine and gross motor, hand-eye coordination, physical growth, pre-reading, and pre-math skills.   Field trips often reinforce the topics for that month's curriculum.   I encourage self-help skills and building positive self-esteem.  Every six months I conduct a child profile to determine what your child knows and doesn't so that I may personalize the preschool curriculum to include your child's needs.  Once the child profile has been utilized, I will ask the parents to attend a parent teacher conference to inform you of your child's progress. 

Time Schedule (versatile to children's interests and needs)

    7:00 -  8:30    -     School-age children arrive

   8:00  -  8:30     -    School-age children leave for school

    8:30 - 11:00   -    Closed unless public schools are out of session

   12:45 - 1:00   -   Preschool children arrive

    1:00 - 2:30    -    Children select centers to play in (child-directed activities in the following centers):

   2:30 - 2:45    -   Preschool children are picked up

 

   2:45 - 3:15    -   School-Age children arrive

 

   3:00 - 3:30    -   After school snack

 

   3:30 - 4:30    -   Homework or free play

 

   4:30 - 5:30    -   Children work in centers or on long-term activity  (HO scale train set January - November 2007)

 

    5:00 - 6:30   -   Children are picked up

                           

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This page was last updated on 02/14/07.