Pre - K Program

The 2010-2011 school year will be the 10th year for the Pre-K program at Dolley Madison Preschool. The program is a continuation of the warm, nurturing atmosphere that has been a Dolley Madison tradition.

This program is designed for students who have completed a four-year old class and would benefit from an additional year before entering Kindergarten. Young people from Dolley Madison and other preschools are welcomed.

A continued emphasis on:

• Social and emotional development
  • Board games
  • Centers-imaginative play
  • Puppets
  • Role play
  • Floor activities-turn taking-sharing
  • Social games and songs
• Physical Development
  • Fine Motor
    • cutting
    • art projects-painting-coloring-gluing-pasting
    • tracing-copying-stencils
    • sensory stimulation
  • Gross Motor
    • use of a large playground
    • indoor crawling tunnel
    • stomach scooters
    • tumbling mats
• Intellectual and language Development
  • Emphasis on oral communication and literacy thought
    • circle time
    • stories
    • themes
    • sequencing
    • dictating of stories
    • child draws pictures of their world
  • Approaching pre-reading both visually and phonetically
    • visual discrimination tasks
    • auditory discrimination tasks
    • rhyming words
  • Mathematical Development
    • count students, snack, calendar etc.
    • recognize and write numerals
    • associate numerals with quantity
    • compare quantities

Dolley Madison is a happy, safe environment in which to grow and learn

Speech and language therapy services as well as occupational therapy services are available.