The curriculum at Skidaway Community Preschool was developed using learning goals and objectives based upon the Georgia Early Learning and Development Standards (GELDS) for children ages 1-5. Our curriculum was designed to foster the growth of the whole child, not just intellectually, but socially, emotionally, and physically. Character education is a daily part of our curriculum, and our students understand what it means to be part of a community. Our lessons and activities are theme based and are planned around the developmental domains to include physical, social/emotional, language and literacy, and cognitive skills. We combine our learning experiences with unstructured play, which allows for the balance most appropriate for our youngest learners.

Each day, your children will participate in both self-initiated and teacher-directed enrichment activities, ensuring concept absorption while accommodating children’s varied learning styles. Daily lessons and activities include art, music and movement, reading, science/sensory exploration. Our children are safe to explore and experiment, finding their passions at a young age. Our preschool curriculum incorporates the development of fundamental skills including math and literacy readiness, following directions, visual memory, dramatic play, problem solving, and self help skills. We believe that all learning can and should be fun for young children, and all of our learning experiences are designed with this in mind. Our curriculum engages our youngest learners and fosters a lifelong love of learning.

Our Threes and Pre-K programs are enhanced with the use of the Heggerty curriculum of phonological and phonemic awareness. Lessons are taught daily in the classroom with explicit teacher modeling and scaffolded support. Students learn to play with language and hear the sounds in spoken words. Through the use of the curriculum, teachers see improvement in students’ reading, spelling, and writing as the students learn to hear the sounds in words.

In our Threes program, the Heggerty curriculum teaches five phonological awareness skills. Rhyme, initial phoneme isolation, and blending are introduced at the beginning of instruction, and segmenting words and final phoneme isolation are introduced in later weeks of instruction. Two early literacy skills—alphabet knowledge and language awareness via nursery rhymes and sentences—are also taught.

In our Pre-K program, the Heggerty curriculum teaches eight phonemic awareness skills: rhyme, onset fluency, phoneme isolation, blending, segmenting, adding, deleting, and substituting. Additionally, letter names, sound recognition, and language awareness via nursery rhymes are taught.

By developing phonemic awareness, students can better understand the relationship between letters and sounds, which are crucial for learning to read and spell.

Our Pre-K curriculum is enhanced with the use of Handwriting Without Tears materials for fine motor and literacy development to ensure our students are well prepared for elementary school.

You are welcome to come by and visit our preschool. To schedule an appointment, or for more information, please call our Director, Amie Nixon, at 598-0151 x 1106.