Ages 3.5-5

Our Pre-K classroom is designed for children who are preparing for the transition into kindergarten. At this stage, children are becoming more independent, developing longer attention spans, forming stronger friendships, and building the academic and social skills needed or success in an elementary school setting. Our program combines structured instruction, hands on activities, creative exploration, movement, and purposeful play to create a well rounded learning experience.

Kindergarten Readiness Through Meaningful Learning

Our Pre-K program introduces children to a more structured classroom routine while continuing to respect the way young children naturally learn. Children participate in teacher led lessons, small group instruction, learning stations, independent activities, outdoor play, art, music, and collaborative projects.

Throughout the day, children practice listening during group instruction, following multi-step directions, completing age appropriate tasks, caring for their belongings, working independently, and participating respectfully as members of a classroom community. These routines help children become more comfortable with the expectations they will encounter in kindergarten.

Accredited Pre-k Curriculum

Our classroom uses the experience Preschool Curriculum, a structured and research based early learning program that supports academic growth, creativity, physical development, and social/ emotional learning. Lessons are organized around engaging monthly themes and include stories, music, games, art projects, experiments, group discussions, and hands on learning material.

The curriculum supports development in several important areas:

Literacy and Language

Children build vocabulary, listening comprehension, phonological awareness, and early reading skills. They practice recognizing letters, connecting letters with sounds, identifying rhyming words, retelling stories, sequencing events, and expressing their ideas through conversation, drawing, and early writing.

Early Writing

Children strengthen the fine motor control needed for writing through tracing, drawing, cutting, manipulatives, and other hands on activities. They begin practicing proper pencil grip, writing their names, and forming letters and using pictures and early writing to communicate ideas.

Mathematics

Children practice counting, number recognition, one to one correspondence, comparing quantities, sorting, patterns, measurement, shapes, spatial relationships and beginning addition and subtraction concepts. Activities are presented using games, manipulatives, movement, and real world examples.

Science and STEAM

Children are encouraged to observe, predict, experiment, build, and ask questions. STEAM activities may involve nature, weather, animals, plants, simple machines, engineering challenges, sensory materials, and cause and affect exploration.

Creative Arts

Art experiences encourage children to experiment with different materials, colors, textures, and techniques. Children are given opportunities to create original work, develop imagination, and express themselves rather than simply copying identical projects.

Music and Movement

Songs, rhythm activities, dancing, and movement games strengthen memory, coordination, listening skills, self expression, and body awareness.

Social-emotional Learning

Children practice recognizing emotions, communicating respectfully, taking turns, sharing, solving conflicts, showing empathy, cooperating with classmates, and managing frustration in healthy ways.