4-Year-Old Kindergarten (4K)
Preschool 2 / 4-K
During the preschool day, your child will learn the skills necessary to prepare him/her for a happy and successful living experience. The learning environment will stimulate their curiosity and provide meaningful, concrete (firsthand) experiences which are fundamental to the way a young child learns.
Developmental Goals
Our goals are based on the physical, emotional, intellectual and social development needs of the child. Our preschool program will contain the following components:
Self-esteem and Positive Self-image
Self-expression and Communication Skills
Intellectual Development
Opportunities for intellectual development will be fostered by exposure to the following:
These skills are achieved through daily routines, calendar, stories, games, sensory activities, identification labels, and play.
Physical Development
Our program will give ample opportunities for choice time, which will give children time to practice the skills they have learned.
The preschool program will have teacher-directed and child-initiated activities, quiet and active times and work in large and small groups.
The program and activities will provide for and encourage the use of other cultural and ethnic differences, in such a way as to include languages, special needs, foods, customs, lifestyles, clothing and celebrations.
Supply List
4-K supply lists are available at many stores or online at http://www.wisp.k12.wi.us
4-K Registration Policy
CCCC is a school district sponsored 4-year-old kindergarten site. If your child is 4 years old on or before September 1 of any given year, his or her primary classroom will be the 4K room. Parents are responsible for registering their child for 4K through the school district. The school district then reimburses CCCC to cover the additional cost of 4K program operations. The child will not be allowed in 4K if they are not registered with the district.
During the preschool day, your child will learn the skills necessary to prepare him/her for a happy and successful living experience. The learning environment will stimulate their curiosity and provide meaningful, concrete (firsthand) experiences which are fundamental to the way a young child learns.
Developmental Goals
Our goals are based on the physical, emotional, intellectual and social development needs of the child. Our preschool program will contain the following components:
Self-esteem and Positive Self-image
- Encourage cooperation
- Positive behavior
- Completion of tasks and creativeness
- Individual attention and active listening will foster feelings of self-worth and self-importance
Self-expression and Communication Skills
- Group time will be a daily activity where each child is given a chance for self-expression on any topic. Others will be attentive to each child. This will increase a child’s feeling of self worth.
- Communication skills will be reinforced through open-ended conversation and verbal interaction.
Intellectual Development
Opportunities for intellectual development will be fostered by exposure to the following:
- Social and Life Skills :
- Self-help skills to encourage independence and to promote healthy habits (e.g., personal hygiene, taking care of personal belongings, dressing themselves, shoe tying, manners)
- Units will explain and educate about areas in their lives (e.g., families, plants, animals, insects)
- Academic Skills
- Math concepts – matching, patterning, and categorizing objects
- Numbers and alphabet – recognition of shape and sound, writing and comprehension, name writing
These skills are achieved through daily routines, calendar, stories, games, sensory activities, identification labels, and play.
Physical Development
- Small Muscle Development and Creative Expression
- Art activities will be organized to provide for each child’s own individual creation. Activities for following directions and creative expression will be incorporated.
- Dramatic play – Our home living Center will encourage children to use their imaginations to recreate experiences they have seen and been involved in.
- Music and movement – Children will be encouraged to express themselves through dancing, music, and instruments.
- Large Muscle Development
- Physical skills such as running, hopping, skipping, use of balls, tricycles, scooters, climbing structures, balancing equipment and exercise records will be part of the daily routine.
Our program will give ample opportunities for choice time, which will give children time to practice the skills they have learned.
The preschool program will have teacher-directed and child-initiated activities, quiet and active times and work in large and small groups.
The program and activities will provide for and encourage the use of other cultural and ethnic differences, in such a way as to include languages, special needs, foods, customs, lifestyles, clothing and celebrations.
Supply List
4-K supply lists are available at many stores or online at http://www.wisp.k12.wi.us
4-K Registration Policy
CCCC is a school district sponsored 4-year-old kindergarten site. If your child is 4 years old on or before September 1 of any given year, his or her primary classroom will be the 4K room. Parents are responsible for registering their child for 4K through the school district. The school district then reimburses CCCC to cover the additional cost of 4K program operations. The child will not be allowed in 4K if they are not registered with the district.
