With the new school year on the horizon, Desert Rose Preschool at Las Sendas, is pleased to share some of the key components making our preschool a very special place where children are cared for with love.
Desert Rose Preschool at Las Sendas is licensed and in compliance with all state regulations. We have three adults at all times to teach your children. They have had training in teaching preschool. We all have First Aid and CPR training, and have gone through fingerprinting clearance.
This is my 27th year of teaching. I taught kindergarten for 14 years, and have been trained in working with children with special needs. Desert Rose Preschool at Las Sendas has been operating at the Trailhead Members Club nearly 13 years. You must live in Las Sendas to have your children attend our school.
All children will learn Early Learning Standards:
• Social and Emotional
• Knowledge Self: Awareness—recognition of expression.
• Social Interactions: With others, separation, cooperation.
• Responsibility for self and others: Self-control, respect.
• Approaches to learning: Curiosity, creativity, initiative, problem solving, persistence, confidence.
Language and Literacy
• Oral Language Development: Listening and understanding, speaking and communicating.
• Pre-Reading Process: Print awareness, book handling skills, sounds and rhythms, letter knowledge, vocabulary development, comprehending stories.
• Pre-Writing Process: Written expression.
Mathematics
• Number Sense and Operation: Number sense,
numerical operations.
• Data Analysis: Collection and organization, data analysis
• Geometry and Measurements: Spatial relationships and measurement.
• Structure and Logic: Logic and reasoning.
Science
• Inquiry: Observations, questions, investigation, analysis and conclusions, communication.
Physical Development, Health and Safety
• Physical and Motor Development: Gross motor, fine motor.
• Health: Personal health and hygiene.
• Safety: Safety/injury prevention.
Art and Music
• Visual Art: Creating art, art in context, art in inquiry.
• Music and Creative Movement: Creating music, music and creative movement in context and inquiry.
• Dramatic Play: Creative dramatic play, dramatic play in context and inquiry.
Learning Activities
The children will have art and music every day, and snacks will be provided. Children will learn to write their names and all the letters of the alphabet as well as numbers from 1 to 20 and above. We will teach them to count to 100, and will celebrate that day with a party. The children will be taught the days of the week, months of the year, weather and the four seasons. We will have lots of thematic learning with activities for the early childhood.
We are planning various special events, including an open house, our Valentine’s Day party, the annual Easter Egg Hunt, Halloween Parade and Thanksgiving Feast. The children also will participate in a snack drive for Sunshine Acres Children’s Home, and we will share Christmas cookies. A graduation ceremony for the pre-kindergarten class closes the school year. Every child will receive Clifford the Big Red Dog magazine and Let’s Find Out. All gifts and refreshments are included in your monthly tuition. Your child will be ready to enter kindergarten fully prepared, filled with confidence and maturity.
The fall classes will start on Aug. 26. You will receive a phone call and a postcard to welcome the student to Desert Rose Preschool at Las Sendas. This year, I am going to offer the same options as last year. You can choose the days and times for your child. You will have the choice of morning until 11:30 a.m., or add Lunch Bunch until 1 p.m. The all-day option offers class until 3 p.m. We must have at least six children for the all-day class to make it work.
Last year, I tried to accommodate the needs of the students and parents. So, if you have a special need, please let me know. We will work it out. As a teacher, I’m very flexible. Remember, Desert Rose Preschool at Las Sendas is not a day care. It is a private educational preschool.
All 3-year-olds must be potty trained.
Please call me for additional information at (480) 654-4223, or send an e-mail to jbuttitta@cox.net.
My goals for our children
1. Help each child develop a good self-concept of his various abilities at school. Help him to be happy with himself by relating well to other children in the group, by relating to teachers, by learning to accept the routine of the group and by learning to accept rights of others in the class.
2. Enable each child to learn basic concepts—sizes, shapes, colors, numbers, letters, etc.
3. Help each child to be more aware of the world around him.
4. Help each child develop his small and large muscle abilities.
5. Help each child find that learning is a pleasant experience.
6. Help each child develop the ability to depend on himself for his personal needs.
7. Enable each child to express his own creative abilities.
I offer the following advice every year to parents:
Preparing Your Child for Separation
For most children, leaving home to go to school marks the biggest change in their daily lives. It’s also a change for parents. A child is being sent off to school. Some children take separation in stride. Others have difficulty. Here are some key points to help you.
Don’t
• Don’t build up the first day. Be eager, but don’t continually bring it into your conversation. Let your child bring it up.
• Don’t allow siblings to tease or alarm your child about school.
• On the first day of school, don’t stay. Say goodbye at the classroom door. Don’t linger.
• Don’t let your child feel there is a chance of not going to school. Don’t engage in discussion about it. Be natural, but firm in tone. Be supportive and reassuring.
Do
• Explain to your child what you will be doing while he is at school.
• If you can have him meet the teacher and see the classroom before the first day of school, it will help lessen his anxiety.
• Explain the fact the teacher will help him go to the bathroom if he needs help.
• Explain how long the preschool will last.
• Relax and enjoy your time. I promise your child will be taken care of with love and patience.