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Preschool Curriculum Guide
Block Play

What Children Do . . .

Children use materials: wooden unit blocks, large hollow blocks, small pattern blocks, legos, and more.
They create: roads, train tracks, buildings, towers, animal worlds, airports, dinosaur environments, artistic designs, and more.

What Children Learn . . .

Socially & Emotionally

Cooperation with others, making choices, negotiating skills, respect for self and others, self expression, creative use of materials, represent and understand real life situations.

Cognitively: Literacy, Math, & Science

Identifying shapes, understanding scale, classifying and sorting, count sequentially, make predictions, cause and effect, creative thinking, problem solving, develop concepts of balance, measurement, and gravity, language development skills, vocabulary, pattern identification skills, and develop spatial reasoning skills.

Physically

Gross motor development, small motor development, visual perception, muscle control and coordination.
 

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