Curriculum

The Hobbitts curriculum has been developed to stimulate children's curiosity about their world while teaching them good working and learning habits.  We provide rich and varied opportunities for acquiring the basic knowledge that will prepare children for their future education.  Hobbitts offers a developmental program in which children play and develop at their own pace.  Using thematic units teachers provide many hands-on opportunities to reinforce learning. 

Teacher/Student Ratio - We maintain the following teacher/student ratios: three-year-olds - 1/7 and four and five-year-olds - 1/9.  We feel that these ratios help to create an environment that is best suited to the needs of young children.

Social Development

• Play and share cooperatively

• Learn appropriate manners
  

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• Learn to follow classroom rules

• Develop respect for classmates and teachers
  

Cognitive Development 

• Language and listening skills developed through literature, story telling, and sharing
  

• Number recognition and number concepts reinforced through fingerplays, calendar, puzzles, and games
  

• Creative expression through art using both free and teacher guided activities 

• Name, color, and shape recognition

• Letter recognition, formation, and sounds
• Music/Movement – creative expression through song, dance, and the use of musical instruments
• Science through experimentation.
• Study of the world around us - all about "me", plants, animals, our earth, the sea, space, weather, seasons, occupations, and transportation.
  

• Patterning, sequencing, rhyme, opposites, and positional words

 
Fine and Gross Motor Skills 

• Fine motor skills are strengthened through simple activities – crayon and scissor use, squeezing playdough, peg board fun, and other activities.
  

• Gross motor skills are strengthened by using the large muscles required in walking, hopping, jumping, and throwing.  Playground and Big Room activities naturally develop these muscles.
  

 

     

 

 

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