Pre Kindergarten Program

The Bridge to a Successful Future

Our Pre-Kindergarten program is designed to pave the educational road ahead for our children. The first few years of the classroom environment is essential for developing the skills needed to achieve in our educational system. Enabling children to learn proactive skills, will allow them to achieve their highest personal level. Our goal is to prepare children through a curriculum that is designed to provide them with these skills, by preparing them with tools needed to achieve in today's educational system. Our program is designed to be the bridge to their future.

When participating in our program, children will engage in activities that allow them to grow intellectually, physically, emotionally and socially. Therefore leading them to be better prepared for their future in a six hour classroom structured environment. These children will be given a challenging yet achievable curriculum along with a large support system from our staff. When participating in this program, children will obtain skills that will teach them to engage in thinking, reasoning, understanding, concept development and better communication with others. The curriculum will also include dramatic play, art and educational field trips. We provide hands-on help, as well as the freedom to explore; allowing children to build confidence in themselves, which is essential for their development and success.

Our Program Entails

Language:

Our goals include language acquisition in both verbal and nonverbal communication. We appreciate that language is rooted within family and community traditions as we encourage children to expand communication skills. Our curriculum also supports early literacy through developing beginning reading skills such as learning letters and sounds and immersion in a print-rich environment.

Mathematics:

Learning numbers, operations, recognizing attributes and patterns, making comparisons and using simple concepts of geometry, measurement, and time are all a part of beginning mathematical learning. Using mathematical vocabulary, understanding quantity and sequencing help your child begin to identify relationships.

Science:

We support children's scientific inquiry and knowledge through observation, the use of simple tools, representation of findings, and the use of basic scientific terminology and vocabulary. Science encourages your child to explore, respond to questions, make discoveries, apply information and find more than one solution to a problem.

Health and Safety:

We practice sound health, nutrition and safety practices through our science activities, our gross motor program, and enjoying a healthy snack together with friends.

Social Studies:

Encouraged Cognitive Exploration helps children understand social roles and rules, the local community, and their own contributions to the well-being of the social and physical environments in which they live.

Practical Life:

encompasses several different important areas of a young child's early education experience. Practical Life activities are ones that your children use in their everyday life such as: setting a table or sweeping the floor or helping to wash and cloth a baby. We will show your children how to perform these practical tasks and then in turn the child will be able to join mom or dad in completing these jobs at home. When a child learns a skill at school that can be used in everyday life it builds self-confidence and they begin to understand that the role they play in life is quite purposeful.

Welcome to Reggio Emilia Approach

Philosophy:

The program is based on the philosophy that all children are equal and each of them are individuals. We have to facilitate them according to their own rate of development. We aim at providing a warm, safe and nurturing environment which will cultivate children's optimal social and emotional growth as well as their physical and intellectual skills. Not only will feelings of confidence and success be promoted, we will also encourage children to learn to be creative and independent.

Parents are Important

Parents are the most important people in a child's life and development. We recognize your child's dependence on you and other family members for support in all areas of development. We welcome and value your knowledge. You are always welcome to visit, observe, participate and contribute your knowledge and ideas.