- Age Group: 3-4 Year Olds
- Class Size: 12 Children
Room 5 is a 6:1:2 integrated preschool classroom for 3 and 4-year-olds. We have both nursery school students and program students in our classroom. There are 4 staff members in Room 5; a Special Education teacher and three teacher’s assistants.
All year long we work on fun and exciting ways to increase our reading/writing, math, academic, attending, social, play, and independent life skills. Each student is able to have his or her school experience involve programming that is specific to his or her needs to make the experience in Room 5 the most meaningful to him or her through one-to-one sessions or small group sessions that have goals that target child-specific needs.
Room 5 uses the Learning Without Tears curriculum to help increase literacy, pre-writing, and other fine motor skills and the Touch Math curriculum to help increase different math skills.
Recently in Room 5....
10.15.24 Individualizing Programming even in groups.
9.13.24 Our students are already getting the hang of their routines! After coming in from the playground, they quickly found their cubbies, grabbed their lunches, and smoothly transitioned to their tables for lunch. They even played on the rug without a hitch—bravo to them for such great progress after just a week and a half!
7.23.24 Why do we Play-Doh?
It’s a sure thing that Play-Doh and other sensory materials are fun for kids. But there’s more to it than mere fun. We see three main benefits of Play-Doh play for our students in Room 4:
- Enhances fine motor skills: Manipulating Play-Doh helps strengthen the muscles in the hand that are essential for writing and other fine motor tasks.
- Encourages creativity and imagination: Using the tools, cookie cutters, and other pieces that we put out with the playdoh, students create various shapes – like pizza, dinosaurs, roosters, and more. Their creativity is stimulated, and their acting out of the products they create is an important part of their development.
- Promotes social skills: We teach our learners about sharing, communicating with one another, taking turns with materials, showing each other what they’ve made, and more. Social skills are usually difficult for our friends, and Play-Doh is a great way to practice them.
7.8.24 Waterplay!
Sweet Success in Room 4! 5.31.24
Room 4 had an exciting and delicious adventure making our own ice cream using ice cream balls! The children had a blast rolling the balls back and forth, turning the simple activity into a fun-filled game. Not only did they enjoy the physical exercise, but they also got to taste the sweet reward of their efforts. It was a fantastic way to combine learning, play, and teamwork!
How to make your own Window Paint 5.1.24
Mix together:
1/4 cup water
1/4 cup flour
1/4 cup dish soap
food coloring to desired color
Then, with a grownup, paint on windows.
Volunteer Appreciation Week 4.25.24
Viola has been with us for over a year now. She started as an intern from Union College in the Spring of 2023, working in Room 4. She returned to Crossroads in the Fall session, and has been a part of Room 4 all year. Her dedication, energy and creativity are truly appreciated! Thank you, Viola!
4.25.24 An Earthy Art Experience
Here you can see our students deeply engaged in crafting Earth Day sun catchers, each framed in a heart, symbolizing their love for the planet. Using blue and green tissue paper pieces to represent water and earth, they meticulously create their sun catchers with the assistance of their teachers. This hands-on activity not only fosters creativity and fine motor skills but also instills a sense of environmental awareness and appreciation for nature.
