Under The Sun Learning Center of West Deptford Center

Our pre-school program utilizes your child’s increased knowledge and longer attention span to help develop their language and social skills. Working at their own pace and guided by our professional staff your child is exposed to a curriculum which has been developed around a variety of selected themes.
The benefits of reading aloud to children on a daily basis are numerous. Children will develop as great listeners and they will become better able to comprehend and understand when they are read aloud to everyday. It is essential to develop these skills in a young child to assure their success as a beginning reader. Our three year old program gets a jump start on balanced literacy by providing a read aloud program along with an introduction to phonics. Weekly themes provide the subject for each book and large and small groups respond to the book in a variety of ways. Children may:

• Perform plays to retell the story.
• Make puppets for the main characters and then use the puppets to perform a show.
• Create an artistic symbol of characters or elements.
• Participate in a game that depicts a particular scene.
• Dramatize scenes through songs fingerplays rhymes and riddles.
• Play in various learning centers with props from the story.