Little Ivy Learning Center

The Senior Nursery curriculum is designed to prepare students for reading and math readiness in the Pre-K program. Our goals include:

• Developing social and emotional skills including respect, sharing, friendship, and feelings.
• Learning how to relate to and get along with others.
• Reading readiness including: identifying letters of the alphabet; recognizing same, similar, and different; symbol and name recognition; and developing an interest in books
• Math readiness including: identifying numerals, shapes, colors; recognizing the difference between top, bottom, over, and under; greater than and less than; and classification of objects.
• Developing listening skills through short stories and poetry read- alouds, following simple directions, and identifying common sounds.
• Developing pre-writing skills by practicing eye-hand coordination, learning to work left to right, drawing vertical and horizontal lines, proper grasp of writing tool, and tracing letters.
• Speak in complete sentences, engage in short conversations, use pronouns correctly, speak before a small group during show and tell, memorize short songs and fingerplays, and answer questions with relevant responses.
• Developing gross motor skills of the large muscles of the back, legs, shoulder, and arms working on coordination and balance.
• Developing fine motor skills of the small muscles of the fingers, hands, and wrists by working with play dough, stringing, lacing, coloring, gluing, painting, cutting, tearing, and folding.