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Big Learning Box 3-5 Years

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  3-5yr, 5 day

  Posted by Sheri on Jul 19th 2022

  The learning box, I love it! Comes very well organized. Each day has its own bag with everything u need for lessons and crafts, There is a manual for the month. Each day it tells you how to teach materials. Gives u simple songs to sing. Also included was a flag, weather activity, has a huge kids calendar, pattern learning, shapes, colors, sight words. I have tried several curriculums and this one feels the closest to what and how our local area preschools are teaching. Im a family daycare for 6 kids.

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  Big Learning box

  Posted by Jane Rivera on Apr 6th 2022

  Love the curriculum makes the day go by so smoothly when the lesson is planned out in advance and easy to prepare

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  3-5yr, 5 day

  Posted by Sheri on Nov 16th 2021

  This is the best program! I love how each day is in its own bag! No sorting, crafts, worksheets, everything u need for that day for all kids in one bag. Highly recommend

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  BIG LEARNING BOX 3-5 YEARS

  Posted by Nat on Oct 4th 2021

  I am very impressed so far with the Learning Box. It will definitely assist me as we are transitioning our son to being at home temporarily from daycare. He loves the pictures, books and songs. Everything is so organized and pre-made crafts are so helpful.

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  Awesome Program!

  Posted by Tiffany Roughgarden on Feb 9th 2021

  I cannot say enough good things about this program! I was not originally planning on homeschooling my daughter, and after making a split decision to do so I began searching online for a program that would allow us to perform hands on learning without the use of a tablet. I am SO happy that I picked the learning box preschool. We are currently in our 1st month and are having so much fun. The teaching manual is easy to follow and the program incorporates lots of songs, crafts and games which I love. I also love the recommended additional activities and books which have inspired my daughter and I to do more baking and get a library card, which has added a lot of additional fun.

  Any grievances I’ve had with the program so far are very minor, but in the spirit of leaving an honest review I will list them here:
  
  1. One of the packets I received in the first month was missing the letter punch out. You can tell each bag is individually hand stuffed so it’s easy to see how something like that could occur. I wound up making my own letters easily enough out of construction paper, but I am hoping that it does not happen frequently.
  
  2. You can tell lots of sections in the manual are copy and pasted, which results in lots of areas referencing the wrong book or sight word. It’s easy enough to figure out what they meant to put there if you are the one following the program every day, but it could be confusing if you are passing it off to a grandparent, nanny, etc for a day.
  
  3. Valentine’s was not picked as a holiday in the February box which is no big deal because you spend half the month learning about love, but I was surprised that a calendar square wasn’t sent to represent the day on the calendar. They do send blanks, however, so I made my own.
  
  4. The program appears to create some of it’s own books to fit with the theme, which is amazing, but one of the books had a clear typo that read “were” instead of “where”. Although minor, I guess I was just surprised by the lack of proofreading for a book created for an educational program.

  Overall the program deserves 6 out of 5 stars in my opinion. Brilliant concept and tons of fun.

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  The best all in one curriculum!

  Posted by Unknown on Jan 20th 2021

  This is the third year (my second child) we’ve used learning box preschool for our co-op preschool. Everything is so easy to understand and follow, and the kids love the activities. We’ve actually taken our preschool virtual, we split the box contents between our 4 kids and then meet for preschool on zoom. It’s been great to keep up with a fun routine, the kids love it, and we moms don’t have to stress over what to teach! Win win win!

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  Amazing

  Posted by Kizzy on Jan 14th 2021

  I've been looking for home school material like this for a while now but its even better than I imagined! Will definitely be ordering monthly.

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  Amazing!

  Posted by Ashley Smith on Nov 16th 2020

  I have subscribed to LBP since my daughter was barely walking. Now she's building small words and learning the Pledge of Allegiance!! I can't say enough compliments about this program. Easy to follow and use and everything is relevant AND there are leftover materials to keep for future crafts. Love, love, love!

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  Preschool box large

  Posted by Holly Olesky on Nov 11th 2020

  Missing sheet for student in some packs but otherwise love the product

Preschool programs | Encyclopedia on Early Childhood Development

Important goals of preschool programs are to help children acquire social skills and learning-related skills. Although beneficial for all children, these programs are especially important for children in disadvantaged groups, guiding them toward healthier development and giving them the tools they need before school entry.

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Preschool programs provide early childhood education and care for children from various cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds in the years prior to their entry into Grade 1. Settings typically include schools, nursery schools, childcare centres and private homes. Since the middle of the 20^th century, preschool programs have been increasingly widespread given the recognition of the importance of learning during early childhood when brain development is very rapid. One of the important functions of preschool programs is to help children acquire learning-related skills, such as the ability to express thoughts, adapt behaviours to situational demands, control impulsivity, show curiosity, remain concentrated and be socially competent. As such, school readiness is not only about teaching children basic language and mathematics skills, but is also about promoting self-regulation. Although beneficial for all children, these early childhood learning opportunities are especially important for children in disadvantaged groups as they play a critical role in reducing the impact of negative early experiences and in redirecting their development into a more productive trajectory. Accordingly, preschool programs can help to reduce the educational gap between children from vulnerable and more affluent families.

What do we know?

Several cognitive and socio-emotional benefits are associated with participation in preschool programs. Not only do they tend to increase children’s intellectual abilities, positive social behaviours, school commitment, and their likelihood of graduating from high school, but they also lower children’s likelihood of repeating a grade and of engaging in antisocial behaviours during their adolescence. These long-lasting positive impacts are increasingly recognized across both developed and developing countries (e.g., Bangladesh, Uruguay), and are mostly found in high-quality preschool programs characterized by two critical components: a) an effective curriculum (i.e., the content of what is taught to children) and b) a positive classroom environment that increases children’s extrinsic motivation to learn. Curriculum is central to supporting and strengthening children’s learning and development. Yet, because children’s academic functioning interacts with other factors (e.g., children’s temperament, family background and cultural tradition), preschool programs that rely on custom-designed curriculum tend to provide better outcomes as they integrate different types of approaches and take into account children’s emerging aptitudes. Along the same lines, learning is fostered in an environment characterized by positive student-interactions. When children feel competent, identify with their teacher and receive appropriate feedback from them, they tend to be more motivated to learn.

Examples of preschool programs that are effective at promoting long-lasting benefits include Head Start, PATHS and Tools, among others. The Program for Alternative Thinking Strategies (PATHS) focuses on promoting self-regulation in children by a) establishing a positive classroom environment with rules and routines; b) teaching children ways to self-soothe, cool-down, and problem solve; and c) modelling prosocial behaviours (e.g., helping, sharing and turn-taking). Similarly, the Tools of the Mind (Tools) is a preschool program intended to promote academic functioning and self-regulation among children from vulnerable families by emphasizing problem solving in small groups, peer collaboration in play, social rules through memory aids and sociodramatic play.

What can be done?

To advance children’s development, preschool programs should promote learning-related strategies, rely on an effective curriculum and be comprised of qualified preschool teachers. Several educational strategies can be implemented within preschool programs to promote children’s learning-related skills. For example, in order to bridge the gap between other- and self-regulation, children are encouraged to use private speech to verbalize their objectives and to evaluate their performance. It is also recommended that teachers model a few situations that involve self-regulation (e.g., looking away from an attractive reward, holding hands under the table) and provide memory aids to symbolize social rules. Furthermore, a useful strategy to promote creativity, comprehension and peer cooperation is to engage children in collaborative play, problem-solving activities, pretend play and sociodramatic play. Pretend play allows children to negotiate what they have to do to coordinate their roles and make choices. Similarly, sociodramatic play helps children to imagine other’s state of mind and to display different emotions as they are switching characters’ roles. Overall, effective educational strategies are required in early education programs to promote children’s emotional, behavioural and attention self-regulation.

In addition to emphasize learning-related skills, high-quality preschool programs should have a good curriculum.Itmust be structured enough, while giving enough flexibility to allow for the different needs of children and their families. Generally, curricula are most effective when a) children are active and cognitively engaged in their learning; b) instructional goals are clear; c) teachers have positive and meaningful interactions with students, in turn allowing them to track children’ progress and make the necessary changes; d) what is taught builds on children’s prior learning; and e) it is comprehensive.

Finally, preschool teachers should receive an adequate training to become sensitive to children’s needs, rules and routines and to the socio-emotional climate. As part of their training, they should develop the capacity to contribute to children’s cognitive and social development and to reach out to parents to make them full partners of children’s early education.

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What are the main functions of preschool programs?

Preschool programs provide early childhood education and care for children, and help them develop a range of skills that make them ready to learn when they start school, such as:

• Social skills: the ability to empathize and interact successfully with their peer group, and also relate easily to adults.

• Language skills: the ability to have adequate language skills in order to benefit from experiences facilitating their cognitive, educational and social development. 

• Executive function skills: the ability to hold and manipulate information in the brain, plan and regulate one’s behaviour, problem-solve, and be creative.

• Emotional self-regulation skills: the ability to adapt behaviours depending on the situation, to control impulses and to shift attention. 

• Self-regulation in learning skills: the ability to postpone immediate satisfaction to attain long-term goals, sustain attention, be persistent, and remain concentrated.

Preschool programs are particularly successful in giving children from vulnerable families a boost, putting them on even footing with more affluent families as they prepare to start school.

Publications

Preschool and Learning-Related Skills

Preschool Programs: Effective Curricula

Protective Role of Executive Function Skills in High-Risk Environments

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Early Childhood Education Report 2014: It’s Time for Preschool

November 2014

MBDOU Kindergarten No. 280, Samara

Level of education – pre-school education.

Form of study – full-time.
Normative term of study:

According to the main general education program – the educational program of preschool education of the MBDOU “Kindergarten No. 280”, g.o. Samara – 4 years

According to the Adapted Basic Educational Program of Preschool Education for Preschool Children with General Speech Underdevelopment (OHP) – 2 years

Training and education in the budget institution is carried out in Russian.

The kindergarten is financed from the city budget and the regional budget.

We work on the following programs: Samara includes the use in educational practice of the Program of education and training in kindergarten, ed. M.A. Vasilyeva, V.V. Gerbovoy, T.S. Komarova. The purpose of the program: the timely comprehensive development of the mental and physical qualities of children from birth to 7 years in accordance with their age and individual characteristics. Under this program, 60 pupils of preschool educational institution .

Remedial education is based on the Adapted Exemplary Educational Program for Preschool Children with General Speech Underdevelopment. The purpose of special education in groups for children with OHP is to eliminate, compensate for the existing defect and secondary manifestations. 44 pupils study according to the correctional program.

Partial general education programs:
– Program for the development of musicality “Harmony” K.V. Tarasov. 104 pupils of the preschool educational institution study under this program.
– “Primrose” Cognitive development of children in kindergarten. Averina T.V., Nikolaeva L. A. 104 pupils of the preschool educational institution study under this program.
– “Education of ecological culture in preschool childhood” Nikolaeva S.N. 104 pupils of the preschool educational institution study under this program.
– “The program on the basics of life safety for preschool children” Avdeeva N., Knyazeva O. 75 pupils of the preschool educational institution study under this program.

Order No. 98 on approval of the annual work plan for the 2022-2023 academic year

Order No. 101 on the approval of day regimens for the cold period

Order No. 108 On the organization of the work of the advisory center for the 2022-2023 academic year

Order No. 123 On the transition of MBDOU to the autumn-winter mode of operation

Order No. 124 On the organization educational activities in 2022 – 2023 year

Order No. 127 On the creation of a psychological and pedagogical council of MBDOU for the 2022-2023 academic year

Order No. 130 on changing the parental fee

Order “On the establishment of a working group to develop the basic educational program of preschool education”

Order “On the creation of a creative group to develop the main educational program of preschool education”

Order “On the approval of the main general educational program of preschool education”

Order “On the approval of workers programs for teachers”

Development program of the MBDOU “Kindergarten No. 280” Samara

The main general education program is the educational program of preschool education of the MBDOU “Kindergarten No. 280”, g.o. Samara

Adapted basic educational program for preschool education of children with severe speech disorders

Calendar study schedule for the 2022-2023 academic year

Daily routine for the 2022-2023 academic year

Curriculum for the 2022-2023 academic year

direct educational activities for the 2022-2023 academic year

Annotation to the work programs of educators

The work program of the second junior group of general developmental orientation

Work program of the middle group of general developmental orientation

Work program of the preparatory group of compensatory orientation

Work program of the senior group of compensatory orientation

Annual plan for 2022-2023 academic year

Information on the number of students (pupils) for the educational programs being implemented 9005 Information on ensuring the possibility of obtaining education for people with disabilities and persons with disabilities in the MBDOU “Kindergarten No. 280″ g.o. Samara

Information about e-learning and distance learning technologies in MBDOU “Kindergarten No. 280”, o. Samara

Methodical development. Additional general education program – additional general developmental program of social and pedagogical orientation “Skillful fingers” (for children 6-7 years old). Author: Khomenko E.V., senior educator – students 23 pupils . The term of study is 1 year.

Methodical development. Program for the formation of communication skills by modeling situations with dialogue in children 5-6 years old with general underdevelopment of speech. Compiled by: Kolesnikova A.E., teacher-speech therapist V.K.K. – 44 pupils are studying. The term of study is 1 year.

Methodical development. Additional general education program – an additional general developmental program of social and pedagogical orientation “Smart Cubes” (for children 5-7 years old). Author: Kolesnikova A.E., teacher-speech therapist V.K.K. – studying 21 pupils . The term of study is 2 years.

Methodical development. Multimedia manual for the GCD “House for three bears”

Methodological development. Electronic manual for sports entertainment “How to beat the flu” Prepared by: Shishkina E.V., teacher of MBDOU “Kindergarten No. 280”, Samara

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Kindergarten No. 41 – Education

About current educational programs, including implemented adapted educational programs:

Form of education:

Full-time.

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Normative period of study:

The terms for obtaining preschool education are established by the federal state educational standard for preschool education. An educational organization provides preschool education, supervision and care for pupils from the age of 2 months until the termination of educational relations.

Possible terms of the Program implementation:

C Structural division	Program implementation data
	age at the beginning of education	age of graduation	possible duration training
General development groups	2 years	6-8 years	5-7 years
Compensating directivity groups	3 years	6-8 years	4-5 years old

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About the period of validity of state accreditation:

Pre-school educational institutions are exempted from the accreditation procedure.

“st. 92 h.1. “State accreditation of educational activities is carried out for basic educational programs implemented in accordance with federal state educational standards, with the exception of educational programs for preschool education, as well as for basic educational programs implemented in accordance with educational standards”

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Language of instruction:

In a preschool educational institution, educational activities are carried out in the state language of the Russian Federation. Educational activities can be carried out in the native language from among the languages ​​of the peoples of the Russian Federation, including Russian as the native language, in accordance with the educational program for preschool education, the adapted educational program for preschool education of children with disabilities and based on the application of parents (legal representatives).

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About academic subjects, courses, disciplines (modules) provided for by the relevant educational program; practices provided for by the relevant educational program:

The structure of the curriculum of the educational program of preschool education and the adapted program of preschool education for children with disabilities provides for organizational forms of joint activities of preschoolers and teachers in the main areas of development (social-communicative, cognitive, speech, artistic and aesthetic and physical). More details can be found by going to the section of the page “About the curriculum with its application in the form of an electronic document” at the link: Read the curriculum >>

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The practice provided for by the relevant educational program:

The practice of implementing the educational program of preschool education and the adapted program of preschool education for children with disabilities is carried out in the mode of operation of a preschool educational institution, takes into account the focus of groups, age and individual characteristics of pupils, special educational needs . More details can be found by going to the section of the page “About annotations to the work programs of disciplines (for each academic subject, course, discipline (module), practice, as part of the educational program) with the application of work programs in the form of an electronic document”

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About the description of the educational program with the application of the educational program in the form of an electronic document or in the form of active links, the direct transition to which allows access to the pages of the Site, including: , with the further possibility of its use in the design of educational programs for preschool education in groups of various orientations, since:

• fully complies with GEF DO;
• takes into account the “Exemplary basic educational program for preschool education”, thirteen “Exemplary adapted basic educational programs for preschool education for children with disabilities” posted on the website https://fgosreestr. ru/
• reveals the features of the organization and implementation of educational activities of a preschool educational institution that implements the practice of joint (integrative / inclusive) education.

The unified edition of the educational program of preschool education “Equal Opportunities” is a model constructor of a complex of educational and methodological documentation, on the basis of which the teaching staff of GBDOU No. 41 “Center for Integrative Education” organizes and carries out educational activities of pupils in groups of general developmental and compensatory orientation.

In general developmental groups, the implementation of the educational program of preschool education “Equal Opportunities” is carried out.

In compensatory groups, an adapted educational program of preschool education for children with disabilities is implemented, taking into account the peculiarities of their psychophysical development, special educational needs, individual capabilities, which provides correction of developmental disorders and social adaptation of pupils with severe speech disorders and pupils with complex defects ( severe and multiple developmental disorders).

On this page of the site, all three editions used for the design, organization and implementation of educational activities in the Kindergarten No. 41 of the combined type “Center for Integrative Education” are presented.

DESCRIPTION OF EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS IMPLEMENTED
Adapted educational program preschool education EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES for students with disabilities		Educational program preschool education EQUAL OPPORTUNITY
description	see	description	see
copy	see	copy	see
short presentation	see	short presentation	see

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About the curriculum with its application in the form of an electronic document:

Curriculum – a document of the educational and methodological complex of the educational program of preschool education “Equal Opportunities”. The curriculum regulates the organization of educational activities in groups of general developmental and compensatory orientation in five educational areas, in the following organizational forms of educational activities provided for by the Federal State Educational Standard for Education:

• – free joint activities of teachers and pupils;
• – independent activities of pupils;
• – classes;
• – joint activities of teachers and pupils, regulated by time.

Curriculum for the implementation of the main part of the program and remedial work regulating the duration of classes and joint activities of teachers and pupils regulated by time, in the aggregate, by the total duration of time, does not exceed the value of the weekly educational load established by SanPiN 2.4.1.3049. The curriculum does not provide for vacation periods. Holidays correspond to the days adopted by the Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation.

Get to know the curriculum >>

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Schedule:

Get to know >>

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Daily routine

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, practices, as part of the educational program) with the application of work programs in the form of an electronic document:

Work programs for preschool education

Work program name	Work programs (links to COPIES)	Annotations to work programs
Education work program	Learn about the program >>	Read >>
Calendar plan of educational work	View calendar >>
ROP Site #1
ROP group “Dandelion”	Learn about the program >>	Read >>
ROP group “Solnyshko”	Learn about the program >>
ROP group “Sunflower”	Learn about the program >>
ROP group “Freckles”	Learn about the program >>
ROP of a defectologist: Kargina E. V.	Learn about the program >>	Read >>
ROP educator Popova E.A. (Art. aesthetic)	Learn about the program >>
ROP speech therapist: Mikhailova O.V.	Learn about the program >>
ROP speech therapist: Sereda M.V.	Learn about the program >>
ROP speech therapist: Stepanova I.G.	Learn about the program >>
ROP teacher for physical development: Popova S.A.	Learn about the program >>
ROP music. supervisor: Romanova I.A	Learn about the program >>
ROP teacher-psychologist: Borkovskaya O.L.	Learn about the program >>
ROP Site #2
ROP GKP “Luchiki”	Learn about the program >>	Read >>
ROP “Ladushki”	Learn about the program >>	Read >>
ROP “Bees”	Learn about the program >>
ROP “Rainbow”	Learn about the program >>
ROP “Chamomile”	Learn about the program >>
ROP “Teremok”	Learn about the program >>
ROP musical director: Gorokhovoy E. A.	Learn about the program >>	Read >>
ROP teacher-psychologist: Kurochkina I.V.	Learn about the program >>
ROP educator for physical development (Shchurova Yu.S.)	Learn about the program >>

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About the calendar study schedule with its attachment in the form of an electronic document: ”, adapted for children with disabilities GBDOU kindergarten No. 41 of the combined type of the Central District of St. Petersburg “Center for Integrative Education”.

The academic calendar for the academic year determines:

• – duration of the academic year;
• – distribution of working time for the implementation of the content of the educational program by trimesters;
• – fixes the requirements for the school week, ensuring the implementation of hygienic standards for the mode of the educational process,
  established by SANPIN 2. 4.1.3049-13 “Sanitary and epidemiological requirements for the device, content and organization of the working regime – preschool educational organizations.”

Get acquainted with the academic calendar >>

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About the methodological and other documents developed by the educational organization to ensure the educational process, as well as the working program of education and the calendar plan of educational work, included in the main educational programs in accordance with Part 1 of Article 12.1 of the Federal Law of December 29, 2012 N 273-FZ “On Education in the Russian Federation”, in the form of an electronic document:

Go to catalog >>

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About the number of students in educational programs being implemented, including:

the number of students at the expense of the federal budget allocations (including the allocation of the number of students who are foreign citizens)	Explore >>
number of students at the expense of budget allocations from the budgets of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation (including with the allocation of the number of students who are foreign citizens)
number of students at the expense of budget allocations from local budgets (including with the allocation of the number of students who are foreign citizens)
number of students under education agreements at the expense of individuals and (or) legal entities (including with the allocation of the number of students who are foreign citizens)

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About the license to carry out educational activities (extract from the register of licenses to carry out educational activities):

License No.