The PM program is for children who will turn four years old by December 31. For most children, this is their second year of nursery school. The children are encouraged to continue practicing social skills, including problem solving and understanding the concepts of friendship and cooperation. Mastery of fine motor and gross motor skills begin to emerge as the children use familiar materials in new and creative ways. Projects may involve more than one step to complete and may extend over more than one class session. These more challenging experiences help our older preschool children hone their abilities to concentrate remember and recognize. Children are given the opportunity to expand their experiences beyond self, home, family and school by participating in fieldtrips into the community. Some children graduate from the PM Program and move on to other schools and programs throughout the city.

PM Nursery Goals:

1. Provide a print-rich environment to stimulate the further development of language and literacy skills in a meaningful context such as:
   • teachers take down dictation from the students
   • children make books on various topics
2. Extend the variety of experiences to challenge the now greater ability to concentrate, remember and recognize including:
   • classification and sorting
   • projects extending over more than one session
   • projects having more than one step to completion
3. Provide experiences to enhance problem solving skills.
4. Offer activities to enhance developing math concepts. Hands on experiences and the use of manipulative counting materials to provide children with concrete number experiences.
5. Place greater emphasis on fine motor activities as these skills develop along with eye-hand coordination.
6. Expand experiences beyond the self, home, family and school to include excursions into the community.
7. Provide guidance in dramatic play as children learn to extend and elaborate themes, work through problems, understand concept of friendship and cooperation, and generally enhance social skills.

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