The age old game of Twister is a perfect way for preschool children to practice left and right, colors, and following directions. We play the game at Fremont Kid's Academy to make learning fun and exciting.
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Working with colors is easy when it's made into a game. Here the children in care at Fremont Kid's Academy are sorting beads of different colors onto stacks. They are having a great time working together and learning to identify and categorize colors.
Toddlers love to do things for themselves and imitate activities they see. Writing on a white board is an example of toddlers practicing the skills they see adults do and gives them a sense of achievement as they see their own marks.
Using water as a medium for art is a great way to keep activities clean and fun. It allows children to be creative and not worry about getting their hands dirty or making any mistakes. The art will dry and then they can do it all over again. This type of temporary project allows for the greatest amount of spontaneity and teaches the children to enjoy the process more than the product.
Recognizing numbers is one of the skills that children learn in kindergarten. At Fremont Kid's Academy we provide activities that prepare the children in our care with those same skills. Entering kindergarten is exciting and can be a bit daunting but when the children start to see material that is familiar to them it makes the transition smooth.
Spending time outdoors is a large part of the curriculum for toddlers and preschoolers at Fremont Kid's Academy. Social interaction, gross motor skills, following directions, and physical exercise are just some of the benefits of outdoor time. Having fun and making memories are happy side effects of our carefully planned outdoor activity.
Today's children are tomorrow's innovators. Allowing children to use their imaginations to build fun and exciting inventions with blocks and other items encourages creativity and exploration. At Fremont Kid's Academy, children are immersed in an environment that fosters that creativity and allows space and time for collaboration and cooperation between the children in our care and their teachers.
Fremont Kid's Academy takes kindergarten readiness seriously but the children in our care just feel like they are having fun. Learning to recognize numerals from 1 to 20 is just one of the many activities on the curriculum list that completes our preschool program.
Pre-writing is very important work that the toddlers at Fremont Kid's Academy do everyday. From 18 months through 5 years, we support the learning process by making age appropriate activities available.
Having the ability to read when entering kindergarten gives a child a huge head start and makes learning fun. At Fremont Kid's Academy we help children gain an interest in reading and we support the learning process to make it possible for them to be reading by kindergarten age.
We all know that building with blocks is a common fine motor skill activity that children participate in as they are growing up, but at Fremont Kid's Academy, we also know that accomplishing a build and showing it to their teacher gives a sense of accomplishment and confidence. Exposing the children in our childcare program to many different activities helps them to achieve age appropriate developmental milestones.
Practicing gross motor skills is an everyday occurrence for the children in the childcare program at Fremont Kid's Academy. We help little ones excel at all the important milestones as they grow up in our care. Practicing gross motor skills is an everyday occurrence for the children in the childcare program at Fremont Kid's Academy. We help little ones excel at all the important milestones as they grow up in our care.
Painting with toddlers can be a messy project. One way to make it fun and clean is to dip a ball in paint and let it roll over the paper inside a box. The children can wiggle the box and keep their hands clean.
Sitting up is the first step that a baby takes on the road toward autonomy. Providing interesting things to look at and touch helps keep them sitting longer and works out their core. Fremont Kid's Academy loves helping the children in our care take baby steps on their journey to childhood.
Playing memory games is a fun way for toddlers to exercise their minds as well as their self control. At Fremont Kid's Academy we play with them and help them to work as a team to find the matching card.
Fremont Kid's Academy works to teach the children in our care the lessons they need to know prior to entering kindergarten. Identifying colors and learning to combine them to make new colors is one of those lessons, but to the kids it just seems like fun painting.
Toddlers playing with baby dolls is a fun activity but also has lots of learning benefits. Pretend play is crucial to early brain development and abstract thinking. Baby dolls are a perfect way to exercise those pretending muscles.
Spring break has come to Fremont Kid's Academy in the form of much needed rain which means we had to choose activities for indoors. Jigsaw puzzles are a great opportunity for all the children to work together on a project, and in this case, to learn about US geography.
We are welcoming Spring at Fremont Kid's Academy. The children in our childcare program have made paper bunnies and decorated then with paint, glitter, and stickers.
Fremont Kid's Academy is preparing for our Spring celebrations by decorating cardboard mats with Spring designs.
Getting ready for and participating in kindergarten is a large part of the curriculum for the older children in care at Fremont Kid's Academy. We follow the curriculum set by the Fremont Unified School District so that there is continuity of learning from our program to the school district.
Serving healthy meals is important at Fremont Kid's Academy. We help the children in our care make healthy choices and learn to feed themselves while enjoying a family style meal.
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