Three-Year-Old Class
We offer the Three’s class with a choice of two or three days per week. Children enrolled in this class are required to be potty trained. We believe that play is a child’s work. Children play to learn, to grow, and to experience the environment surrounding them. In this program, we follow a structured schedule that balances group activities, free exploration, and teacher directed activities in a learn through play exploration approach. This class focuses on themes which may include All About Me, Falling into Autumn, Nursery Rhymes, Holiday Celebrations, Winter Wonderland, Our Community, All About Animals, and Healthy Habits. Children are taught colors and shapes, numbers, likenesses and differences as well as music and art. Motor skills, both gross and fine, are stressed as an important part of this learning period. As the children follow a structured daily schedule, they are building social skills, and learning to follow directions from a teacher.
Four-Year-Old Class
We offer a program called Four’s where children can attend class four or five days a week. Lessons focus on themes that may be similar to those in the Three‘s class, with more detailed projects where children will have a bigger part in the preparation of the projects. We concentrate on the continuation of development of their social skills as well as the large and small motor skills. Children will study colors, shapes, and numbers and learn about holidays and seasons. Children will also work on recognizing their first and last names, as well as writing their names. Children will be introduced to the letters in the alphabet. In this program, as well as in our other classes, teachers are trained to individualize projects and lessons to challenge each child.
Transitional Kindergarten
Children must attend class five days a week. In this classroom, most of the children have attended Preschool at least one year prior and are ready for more structured learning. Lessons and activities focus on themes that correspond to the Letter of the Week. Children will become familiar with their addresses, phone numbers, and birthdates. The children will study numbers and develop critical thinking skills. The children are introduced to upper- and lower-case letters, the phonetic sound of each and how to form each letter correctly. Pre reading skills are developed through association, opposites, rhyming concepts and play activities. This program is a Kindergarten preparation program, and is designed with the intent for each child to be ready to attend Kindergarten the following year.