Our Preschool program offers first grade readiness for children closer in age and ability, and enables the class as a whole to work together on skills and concepts. This program offers curriculum that is based on the children’s developmental needs and interests. Children are offered a well-thought out environment with opportunities to explore in areas such as Books and Writing, Science, Sensory (sand and water play), Cooking, Dramatic Play, Blocks and Puzzles. Children play outside daily (weather permitting) on our natural playgrounds or explore the campus. Social interactions and conflict resolution are part of the curriculum. Teachers support children’s learning by providing interesting experiences and by asking questions that direct children’s thinking. All this takes place in a safe, nurturing and homey environment!

Inside Your Preschooler’s Day

Each day at our centers preschoolers explore science experiments, create artwork, play characters and movement games. In this way they learn following directions and other key skills for learning success.

Purposeful Play is Early Education 

Each day is packed with carefully designed activities structured around the six main development areas.

Your Preschooler’s  Developmental Areas 

Language and Literacy Development

• engage in longer conversations with adults and other children using a greater variety of words
• begin to identify the first sound in a word
• identify and name five to ten letters and begin to know sounds for some
• recognize his or her own name and begin to write it using both letters and letter-like shapes

• take on simple activities independently like setting the table with cups and plates and continue until the task is done
• pay attention to a person or activity for five to ten minutes
• examine new objects or situations with deeper curiosity
• control impulses with fewer adult reminders

• build relationships with familiar adults, talking about thoughts and needs with them
• seek out other children during play time and begin to build relationships with them
• play with other children showing the ability to resolve disagreements with little help from adults
• express a variety of emotions by incorporating emotions into pretend play

• begin to gallop while improving jumping and hopping skills
• trace letters and simple shapes while also showing signs of a right- or left-hand preference
• gain independence with self-care skills such as undressing to use the toilet and remembering to wash hands
• identify healthy and unhealthy foods

• connect number words and numerals to the quantities they represent
• engage in pretend play alone or with others by taking on roles and using props
• participate in scientific experiments led by adults
• Understand history by discussing changes to the community

• create detailed artwork that includes  people, animals, and things
• play movement games that involve following directions as well as creating unique moves
• play a character role in simple dramatic scenarios from books
• repeat more complex melodies and rhythm patterns