Preschool Classrooms

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Our preschool program, through an emphasis on play, interactions, and a quality curriculum, encourages your child’s natural curiosity and promotes the development of self-help skills, communication skills, social competence, and positive self-esteem. Our program includes a balance of individual and group experiences, structure and non-structured, teacher-initiated and child-initiated activities. We provide your child with many different opportunities to explore, help guide them to be more independent, and encourage them to be more self-confident in themselves and their choices. We encourage your child to socialize and communicate with others – to make friends, to get involved with group activities, and to develop social and cooperating skills such as sharing, listening and following directions. This not only provides your child with the maximum learning experience on a day to day basis, but it also helps develop the needed skills to prepare your child for Kindergarten and life experiences.

The curriculum for our Preschool is based on providing a very hands-on learning environment for children. We offer your child a very structured and stimulating preschool experience, providing a weekly based theme with supportive supplies and materials in an encouraging environment. This keeps children busy, engaged, and interested in learning new and exciting things.

Our classrooms are set up into fun Learning Centers providing children the extra additional structured areas to promote and encourage learning. These centers are designed for children to learn new and exciting things and, most importantly, to have fun while doing so.

• Block Center - Children build with blocks and create buildings and roadways. Once their imaginations take off, the possibilities are endless.

• Science & Math Center - Children learn counting skills and gain a love for science with fun science projects and experiments.

• Dramatic Play - Pretend play is great to build a child’s imagination- dress-up clothes, shoes, pretend food, cups, etc. are all provided.

• Art & Crafts Center - Children express themselves and use paint and other materials to create their very own special masterpieces.

• Music Area - Children move freely – to dance, follow directions with a record, use a parachute, use musical instruments, etc.

• Language & Writing Center - Children learn how to recognize and sound out letters, numbers, colors, shapes, and other concepts and will also practice writing their name and small sentences.

• Manipulative Center - This area is great for children to feel independent and to make a choice for themselves by choosing fun learning materials located on easily accessible shelves right at the child’s level.

• Library Area - Children may sit and relax in this area and read a good book, either by themselves, with a teacher or friend.

• Circle Time Area - Children learn about the days of the week, months, holidays, weather, etc.  They sing songs and discuss the week's theme, new topics, letters, numbers, and shapes. This is a great opportunity for the teachers and the children to interact and communicate with each other one on one.

• Sensory Table - This table is always filled with new and exciting things for children to explore and play with. Water, rice, paper scraps for cutting, and snow are just a few fun things that we place in the sensory table.

We believe each child is a unique individual. Learning experiences are cultivated through social interaction, educational activities and discovery, but primarily through play. Play is an essential part of childhood and offers the freedom children need to try out new ideas, practice developing skills, develop relationships, and build confidence.

We believe that each child is a unique individual with a desire to learn which is increased when given the opportunity to develop at their own rate. We strive to provide an environment which nurtures and encourages children to grow mentally, socially, physically, spiritually, and emotionally according to each child’s individual needs. Our curriculum is designed to support these goals and to help each child develop the confidence to openly explore and discover the world around them.

We are committed to working with parents and guardians to optimize each child’s potential as a lifelong learner. Together, we will provide opportunities for children that encourage a love for learning, a sense of personal worth, a respect for others, and learning experiences that will help them develop and exercise the skills they have attained and ready them for Kindergarten success.

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