Martin Reformed Church Preschool

Each day children have the opportunity to sing worship songs, listen to a devotion and pray. Biblical truths are also woven into the programs throughout the year.

At Martin Reformed Church Preschool we use Zoo-Phonics, a fun, engaging program that helps students learn letters and sounds. The program matches an animal and motion to each letter and sound. Students learn lowercase letters in order from A to Z. This program engages students' eyes, ears, mouth and body as they learn, which makes learning fun and helps all types of learners.

Additional areas of language arts:

• Letters and sounds

• Name recognition and writing

• Listening to stories

• Comprehension skills

• Rhyming and finger plays

• Writing expressive language - Speaking and communication

• Receptive language - Listening skills

• Numbers

• Counting and one to one correspondence

• Patterns

• Sorting

• Shapes

• Colors

• Measurement

• Problem solving

• Identifying more/less and same/different

• Graphing

• Observations, predictions and inquiry in science investigations

• Concepts about time (i.e. yesterday, today, tomorrow)

Fine Motor Skills

• Scissor use

• Cutting activities

• Prewriting activities

Large Motor Skills

• Running

• Jumping

• Skipping

• Galloping

• Climbing

• Balance

• Hand-eye coordination

• Self awareness and self regulation

• Self help skills and independence

• Expressing self and emotions

• Problem solving

• Sharing and taking turns

• Following directions

• Expressing self through art, music and movement