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 I graduated from Brigham Young University in Early Childhood Education with a minor in Music.  I taught preschool for 3 years and then decided to open my own, which I did in the 2001-2002 school year.  I have five daughters, age 16, 13, 9 ,7, and 3 and one son that is 5.   I play the piano and violin.   In my spare time(?), I love to read and stamp.  In the winter my favorite thing to do is snowboard, and in the summer I enjoy being at the pool.  

    My philosophy on early childhood learning is the Developmentally appropriate approach (DAP).  This I learned at BYU and in my student teaching.  DAP basically states that children learn at different development levels and times, that they learn best by sensory experience, and there are many areas of development.  I believe that preschool is a time for young children to learn to follow rules, play with other children, and experience the fun in learning.  My preschool is not an "academic" one.  I will not just focus on teaching children to read and write.  Since this is only one area of development, focusing only on that will cause missed opportunity in all the other areas.  We will have fun learning the alphabet and writing our names, but we will also work on pre-math skills such as number recognition and patterns.  We will work on literacy skills such as rhyming.  We will also learn thinking skills which are so important to future learning.  These are best developed in children during free play.  This is time for them to encounter problems and work on solutions with out there being a wrong or right answer.  The children will have opportunity to work on their fine motor skills which are necessary for writing, tying shoes, doing up buttons, etc.  We will also have time to work on large motor skills.  

    My goal is to have each student excited to go to Kindergarten, ready to follow their teacher, able to play with the other students, and have a firm foundation in all areas of development.  I believe that best way for young children to learn is through hands on learning.  We will do few worksheets and there may be days when your child will not bring anything home.  Don't worry, they have still learned and participated.  For example, when we create our classroom grocery store, children will be using organization, problem solving, and cooperation skills, they will be reading and writing.  But to them it will just be fun.  We will do a lot of sensory experiences.  Some of my favorite are painting with shaving cream and cutting spaghetti.  We will have a water day, when we will discover what floats and sinks.  And don't miss our volcano day.  We will be learning science, but more importantly, we will be having fun in the mud.  To a casual observer, we appear to just be playing.  But, then again, a child's work is "playing".  That is how they make sense of their world.  It is my lucky opportunity to orchestrate their play so they are learning what they need to learn at their developmental level.