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Preschool
Our Preschool program provides a warm, welcoming environment where your child can grow from a bundle of joy to a bundle of curiosity. Your child’s primary caregiver is a nurturing child development professional who is focused on creating experiences and opportunities that invite exploration and support the rapid and important development that is occurring in a child’s fourth year.
Our Preschool program helps children advance skills in core pre-academic areas such as literacy, and math, as well as in other essential areas such as art, social and emotional well-being, and health and mindfulness. Our approach ensures that children are exposed to an array of learning activities and that thrive in all areas of child development, creative thinking, complex problem solving, empathetic collaboration, curious investigation, and astute decision making.
Target Communication Milestones
Without giving the child help by pointing or using gestures, the child carries out directions.
When looking at a picture book, the child tells you what is happening or what action is taking place in the picture.
The child consistently moves the zipper up when you say “up” and down when you say “down.”
The child can recite both their first and last name.
Without you giving help by pointing or repeating directions, the child follows three directions that are unrelated to one another
The child uses all of the words in a sentence (for example, “a,” “the,” “am,” “is,” and “are”) to make complete sentences, such as “I am going to the park, or “Is there a toy to play with?”.
Target Gross Motor Milestones
The child walks upstairs using one foot on each stair.
The child stands on one foot for about 1 second.
While standing, the child throws a ball overhand by raising his arm to shoulder height and throwing the ball forward.
Target Fine Motor Milestones
The child catches a large ball with both hands.
The child climbs the stairs of a playground slide and slides down without help.
After the child watches you draw a single circle with a pencil, crayon, or pen, ask him to make a circle like yours.
The child can cut paper with child-safe scissors.
The child holds pencil, pen or crayon between finger and thumb like an adult.
The child puts together a five- to a seven-piece interlocking puzzle.
Using a shape to look at, the child copies it onto a large piece of paper using a pencil, crayon, or pen without tracing.
Target Problem-Solving Milestones
When you point to a figure and ask the child, “What is this?” the child says a word that means a person or something similar.
When asked, “Which circle is the smallest?” the child points to the smallest circle.
The child dresses up and “play-acts,” pretending to be someone or something else. For example, the child may dress up in different clothes and pretend to be a mommy, daddy, brother or sister, or an imaginary animal or figure.
The child recognizes themself in the mirror.
The child puts on a coat, jacket, or shirt by themself.
Target Personal-Social Milestones
The child serves themself, taking food from one container to another using utensils. For example, child uses a large spoon to scoop applesauce from a jar into a bowl.
The child tells you at least four of the following: first name, last name, age, gender, the city they live in, telephone number.
The child washes hands using soap and water and dries off with a towel without help.
The child tells you the names of two or more playmates, not including siblings.
The child dresses or undress without help (except for snaps, buttons, and zippers).
Target Math Milestones
The child continues horizontal addition with larger numbers. Mastering addition ensures a smooth introduction to subtraction in this level.
The child works on developing mental calculations, while strengthening students’ concentration ability and their work skills.
Target Reading Milestones
Students continue to develop pre-reading skills by saying words with consonant blends, consonant-controlled vowels, and long vowels produced by the silent e.
Students master pre-reading skills by trying to decode words with various vowel combinations (digraphs, diphthongs) and two-syllable words.
Music Smart
Introspection: The child will learn to recognize the lack of coordination between singing, chanting, breathing, and movement.
Coordination: Child will learn to coordinate singing with breathing and movement.
Kinetic Learning Goals
Badminton, Balloons/Bubbles, Basketball, Bean Bags, Bouncing, Bowling, Football, Frisbee Golf, Hockey, Hula Hoops, Hurdles, Jai Lai/Scoops, Jump Rope, Kickball, Lacrosse, NoodleKinetics, Nutrition, Obstacle Course, Parachute Games, Push-ups, Relays, Running, Scooters, Sit-ups, Soccer, Socci, Stretching, Tee-ball, and more.
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