1. Welcome to Preschool
3 and 4
Marmara
Daily programme

2. PYP UNITS OF INQUIRY
• WHO WE ARE-How I have grown and changed
• HOW WE EXPRESS OURSELVES- Productions
and creativity
• HOW THE WORLD WORKS-
• Inventions
• SHARING THE PLANET- Plants

3. INTEGRATED SUBJECTS
• LITERACY: Expanding English Vocabulary, Pre-
emergent reading and writing, communication skills.
• MATHEMATICS-
Number, patterns, shapes, colours, measurement.
• ARTS: Visual, musical, Dramatic movement
• SCIENCE:exploration of our world
• SOCIAL STUDIES: Who we are
• PHYSICAL EDUCATION: Movement and spatial
awareness.

4. ESSENTIAL AGREEMENTS
• Be caring and open-minded
• Be principled
• Be safe
• Be a communicator: use your words
• Be a listener and a thinker

5. Learning Through Play
• Play-based activities help your child to learn
independently.
• Different skills are used to help your child to
grow and develop through play.

6. Cognitive Skills through Play
• Each area of play builds on the development
skills your child needs.
• The areas your child chooses each day helps
them to reinforce skills they need for their
development.

7. Benefits of play
• Importance of play
• Why should we let our children play?
• How does play help my child to learn?
• Play is the work of childhood.
• Play is interaction with the real world.
• Play is how a child learns.
• Play allows children to develop in
physical, social, emotional and cognitive
development.

8. How does my child learn through
play?
• Discovery
• Inquiry
• Problem solving
• Cooperation
• Persistence
• Oral language
• Creativity

9. Play in First Language
• Allows children to formulate ideas in their first
language.
• If your child has a good grounding in their first
language they will transfer skills to another
language easily and quickly.
• Children will learn at different rates.
• Children will express themselves in a new
language when they are ready.

10. What areas of play are their in the
classroom environment?
• Dough
• Sand
• Paint
• Water
• Construction
• Home Corner
• Outdoors

11. What are the specific skills my child
learns in play?
• Physical
• Cognitive
• Language
• Emotional
• Social

12. RELEVANT LANGUAGE
DEVELOPMENT
• Language is in all dramatic play activities.
• Talking and listening skills are developed
through dramatic play.
• In role play children experiment with
language.

13. Physical Skills
• Using tools and mastering how to use these.
• Development of fine motor skills
• Hand-eye coordination
• Manual dexterity and control of
• hand movements

14. Cognitive
• Measurement, mass and volume
• Explore textures
• Explore shapes, number and money
• Understanding the nature and properties of
materials

15. Emotional
• Creating in an independent way
• Pretending to have power and showing
emotions
• Understanding the world
• Express a range of feelings

16. Social
• Co-operative play
• Parallel play
• Equipment sharing
• Solitary

17. How can I help my child at home?
• Read to them daily.
• Listen to their stories.
• Go on nature walks.
• Play with them at their level.
• Give your child structure and boundaries.
• Be consistent.

18. HOUSEKEEPING
• Phone tree
• Child illness
• IICS website
• Room parent: Susanna Ravasi
• Snack
• Cupcake days
• Arrivals and dismissals

19. Questions