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.

The Hobbitts Preschool Curriculum is based upon the Ohio’s Early Learning and Development Standards.  These standards were created as part of a collaborative effort of the Ohio Department of Education, Department of Job and Family Services, Ohio Department of Health, Ohio Department of Mental Health, Ohio Department of Developmental Disabilities, and the Governor’s Office of Health Transformation.  The following is a brief outline of concepts and developmental skills that will be addressed during your child’s years at Hobbitts Preschool.  It is our hope that, in partnership with the parents, our children will be properly prepared for the kindergarten experience. 

Social & Emotional Development

• Play and share cooperatively

• Learn appropriate manners
  
• Socially accepted means of communication
• Expression of feelings
• Human diversity/similarities & differences
• Listening skills

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• Learn to follow classroom rules

• Develop respect for classmates and teachers
  
• Able to resolve conflicts with peers
• Engage in conversation with adults and peers
• Independent personal care task
• Concern for others/compassion/empathy
• Realizing consequences for actions

Cognitive Development 

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

• Number recognition, number concepts, measurement, ordinal number, concept of adding & subtracting
  

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

• Name, color, and shape (2D & 3D) 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, sorting, comparing, sequencing, rhyme, opposites, and positional words
• One-to-one coorespondence
• Graphing/charting
• Differentiate between living and nonliving
• Scientific process/ scientific properties (solid, liquid, gas)
• Past/present/future

Language Development

• Follow two-step direction
  
• Share observations, problem solve, reason, predict, seek answers
• Articulate thoughts, feelings, and ideas clearly/audibly
• Describe people, places, and experiences
• Illustrate verbal descriptions through drawing
• Take turns when talking.  Encourage conversation exchanges
• Understand differences bewteen fantasy and reality
• Retell or re-enact stories
• Understand parts of book/author, illustrator, characters, story, etc.
• Recite poems, chants, songs, nursery rhymes, etc.
• Understand that print carries meaning & that letters carry a sound
• Letters put together make words
• Begin recognition of simple written words
• Differences between asking a question and stating a fact
• Following from left to right in written material
• Able to complete/expand a thought
• Able to describe, categorize, compare, and contrast information in text

 
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.
  
• Eye-hand coordination
• Use of hands to manipulate objects/perform task
• Complex oral-motor skills (blowing, sucking, tongue twisters)

• 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.
  
• Able to dress self

 

     

 

 

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