EARLY PRESCHOOL
2 - 3 years
Our Shooting Star Room Is All About ME!
Encouraging independence helps our terrific twos gain autonomy and experience confidence in themselves.
Early Preschool
2-3 years
Our Shooting Star room is all about ME!
Encouraging independence helps our terrific twos gain autonomy and experience confidence in themselves.
Boundless Opportunities For Autonomy
Our Shooting Stars have an amazing amount of boundless energy and an innate sense of curiosity of the world around them. Children know who they are and feel confident in making their own choices. Your Shooting Star works towards several self-help skills. Introducing potty training, encouraging parallel play, promoting self-feeding with spoons and open cups are only a small part of the autonomy that your little one accomplishes.
Positive, Encouraging, Energetic Teachers promote excellence
Energetic teachers are eager to foster and support this need for independence while providing numerous opportunities for the children to make safe choices in a stimulating environment. In addition, our positive reinforcement, hugs, praise, and kind words help make this journey to independence both encouraging and successful.
Communication Helps Teachers Work Closely With You
Communication is important during this advancement in learning and self-care habits. Teachers work very closely with the family and the child to make sure there is consistency between home and school. Keeping you up to date daily about your child’s feelings, what they ate, when they slept, diapering, potty training and curriculum activities provides steady assurance for your early preschoolers’ care.
Working With Words Empowers Children's Learning
Our Shooting Star curriculum supports empowering children with words and developing self-help skills. Teaching vocabulary that lets them express themselves, resolve conflict and get along with others is fundamental in achieving independence. Their rapidly emerging abilities require constant curriculum challenges in order to keep them engaged and busy.
Low Ratios Ensures Plenty Of One On One Time
Maintaining low ratios ensures plenty of one on one time. Weekly, themed lesson plans with teacher directed, hands-on activities based on language, social-emotional, cognitive and physical development skills reinforce our academic standards and provide a sound foundation for elementary readiness.
Freedom Of Choice Helps Your Little One Mature
Part of helping our early preschoolers become more independent is providing them with the freedom of choice. Our students are encouraged to express their creativity through free-choice play in the dramatic play area, block center and art station. Our teachers are aware of this fundamental need and strive to create academic learning centers from which children can choose and participate in daily.
Expanding Their World Through Enrichments and Continued Spanish
Giving the children opportunity to experience as much in a day as possible is our primary goal. Starting in the early preschool room, the children have scheduled weekly times for enriched academic learning opportunities in art, science, home economics, literacy, media and dramatic play. The continuation of our daily Spanish program expands to build your child’s vocabulary enhances early understanding of diversity and cultural awareness.
An Environment That Supports Independence And Discovery
Custom designed for your early preschooler, a eco themed classrooms offer an early learning adventure with a multitude of independent opportunities for our Shooting Stars. Two spacious, bright, beautiful classrooms with natural lighting and ecofriendly amenities help create a pallet of early learning potential. Teachers encourage discovery and independence through large rotational learning centers full of educational toys and equipment. Child-height toilets, sinks, windows, tables and chairs with half walls for diapering and potting help support successful independence and allow safe monitoring children.
Shooting Star Interactions
Our Shooting Star Interactions creates opportunities for more structure while helping build emotional vocabulary. This combination allows your little learner the tools to express themselves, resolve conflict and play well with others.
Building a trusting relationship with others is an essential part of our Shooting Star program. Our teachers are aware of this need and strive to create an environment that not only encourages academic development but also fosters your child’s social and emotional development as well. Below is a sampling of the many ways this is accomplished:
- Assigning each Early Preschool child to a group of peers to help foster bonding and consistency, while creating more social interaction
- Creating a sense of safety in and outside of the classroom so they can begin to explore areas freely
- Providing opportunities for success that create a positive sense of self
- Encouraging independence so that children gain autonomy
- Introducing potty training when developmentally appropriate
- Encouraging self-help skills
Developmental Goals and Milestones For
Our Shooting Stars
Our Shooting Star curriculum goals help our early preschool children develop the skills necessary to become independent learners. Busy as the two’s may be, our teachers can keep up and cherish the opportunity to be a part of your early preschoolers’ bright independence.
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