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Bees

The Bee Room was designed to provide exceptional care for children aged 4 years to 5 years. Enrolled families can expect a safe, secure, nurturing, and age-appropriate learning environment. Social interactions with peers, self-help skills, letter and sound recognition, rhyming, writing of names, as well as, other letters and numerals, numeral recognition and adding and subtracting with manipulatives are some of the many things that the children in The Bee Room are working on. 

Experienced, well-qualified teachers are staffed at a 1:12 ratio. Teachers are dedicated to responding promptly to every child’s daily needs. The Bee classroom provides PreK for Verona and Madison families through our community partnership with the Verona School District.

Parents will receive daily communication about what their child did that day through the Brightwheel app, and pictures through Google Drive. The Bee Room has a parent area which displays weekly lesson plans. In addition to communication at drop off and pick up, families are encouraged to call or visit as desired.

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Classroom Schedule

Bees continue to practice consistency by following a daily routine. Teachers foster growth by introducing new experiences through creative play and exploration while encouraging children to learn.

7:00-8:30

Arrival / Outside Play / Inside Free Choice

8:40-9:00

Morning Meeting

9:00-9:30

Morning Snack (optional)

9:30-10:45

Choice Time / Handwriting Without Tears

10:45-11:00

Circle Time

11:00-12:00

Outside Play

12:00-12:50

Lunch

12:50-3:00

Nap / Quiet Activities

3:00-4:00

Story Time / Snack

4:00-5:30

Outside Play / Choice Time / Pick-Up

What to Expect in the Bee Room

Social Emotional Development

  • Expresses different emotions 

  • Accepts guidance from adults 

  • Respects and cares for classroom environment and materials 

  • Cares for personal belongings 

  • Works and plays well with others 

  • Resolves conflicts by using appropriate words and actions 

Cognitive Development

  • Counts with one-to-one correspondence 1-10. 

  • Orally counts to 20 

  • Sorts objects by color, shape, or size 

  • Names numbers 1-10 

  • Creates and explains an AB pattern 

  • Compares two sets using more, less, and equal 

  • Uses observations to compare similarities and differences 

Literacy and Language Development

  • Identifies 16 or more uppercase letters 

  • Identifies 9 or more lowercase letters 

  • Identifies sounds of some consonants 

  • Understands basic concepts of print 

  • Uses drawing and/or writing to represent thoughts and ideas 

  • Writes name legibly 

  • Identifies some words that rhyme 

  • Isolates beginning sounds of words 

Approaches to Learning

  • Is curious about and willing to try new and unfamiliar experiences 

  • Remains focused when completing tasks 

  • Respects other people and their ideas 

  • Explores movement, music and a variety of artistic media 

Health and Physical Development

  • Demonstrates basic self-help skills 

  • Draws recognizable pictures 

  • Demonstrates standard pencil grip 

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