PRESCHOOL
3 - 4 years
Bright Beginnings Develop And Grow
opening a whole new world for our Shining Stars’ achievements.
Preschool
3-4 years
Bright beginnings develop and grow,
opening a whole new world for our Shining Stars’ achievements.
A Space Designed For Small Group Interaction
Our Shining Stars are full of wonder and spend their time observing and exploring the world around them. They love to play with words and language. Because preschool children are moving into cooperative play, the classroom centers are designed for small groups of children to interact with each other and to allow them to refine their social skills.
Children Have Room To Practice Until Perfect
Fostering foundational skills to allow preschoolers to expand their horizons and seek out information by exploring new territory in a supportive secure environment is our number one goal. Our teachers understand that they learn through repetition and provide a variety of hands on learning activities that allow children to practice and master our Shining Star curriculum goals.
Your Child Uses Imagination To Spark Creativity
Creativity blossoms is our Shining Star’s classroom. The art, dramatic play and music areas are extremely popular choices. Shining Stars are frequently practicing skills, trying new things and use their imagination help understand the world around them and interact with their peers.
Degreed Teachers Expand Your Child’s Learning
Our degreed, experienced, well-trained teaches are the fundamental foundation to what makes our preschool program above the rest. This standard sets the pace for the confidence providing self-reliance skills that only a degree in early childhood education can provide.
exciting Themes Help Your Child To Soar
Focused around weekly themes, your child will flourish both creatively and culturally through a variety of annual events, including exciting in-house field trips, splash pad days, extracurricular activities, holiday parties, celebrations, STEAM science night and monthly home economics projects.
Performing Arts Play Encourages Expression
The introduction of the performing arts at our annual preschool play lets your child be a star for a day. Our little performers will surprise and delight you as they show off their acting skills. Evidence shows that Theatre Arts activities support early childhood development in the following ways:
- Pretend play builds curiosity through exploration and imaginative questioning
- Language-rich stories and songs build vocabulary and activate brain development
- Creative Storytelling gives children opportunities to make choices and use their voices
- Expressive movement exercises large motor skills, supporting muscle and brain development
- Self-expression is foundational to self and social awareness and to developing healthy relationships
A Center That Meets Children Where They Are
An eco-themed classroom creates an adventure for our Shining Stars. Everything is at a child’s height and size allowing support for our Shining Stars journey to independence. Bright, beautiful rooms with patterned carpets, enchanting wall murals, natural lighting and ecofriendly amenities create an exemplary learning experiences for your preschooler. These two spacious classrooms provide large learning centers full of educational toys and equipment for children to rotate through during our curriculum time.
Shining Star Interactions
Our Shining Star Interactions allow more independence while still providing security and support from caregivers close at hand.
Our teachers understand how to create an environment that balances the two as it supports growth and development in social and emotional areas. Below are some of the many ways that our qualified teachers will meet your child’s individual needs:
- Building a trusting and communicative relationship with teacher and peers
- Creating an environment in the classroom and school that supports autonomy and freedom
- Developing an understanding of the dynamics of socially acceptable behaviors
- Developing a positive sense of self confidence and self-awareness
- Refining self-help skills
- Maintaining low rations for more individualized attention
- Weekly foreign language instruction
- Bi-weekly music enrichment programs
- Authentic assessments help to target the individual child’s needs preparing them for elementary school
Developmental Goals For
Our Shining Stars
Communication
- Attend to communication of others
- Uses a wide variety of words
- Responds to increasingly complex language from others
- Understands, follows, and uses appropriate social and conversational rules
- Expressed himself in more sophisticated ways
- Uses verbal and non-verbal language to communicate
- Follows two-step directions
Literacy
- Recognizes letters of the alphabet
- Understands how print is used
- Explores the role of print
- Asks and answers questions about a book that was read
- Retells a story in their own words
- Writes for a variety of purposes
- Identifies and attempts to write first name
Social Skills
- Engages in positive relationships with adults
- Participates in cooperative play with other children
- Uses basic problem-solving to resolve conflicts with other children
- Expresses a broad range of emotions
- Expresses care and concern toward others
- Recognizes self as a unique individual
- Expresses confidence in own skills and positive feelings about self
Social and Environmental Studies
- Identifying and appreciating similarities and differences in basic social groups
- Identifying members of immediate family and their various roles
- Recognizing and appreciating traditions and languages of other cultures
- Identifying various roles within the community
- Recognizing the American Flag
- Discussing homes
- Beginning to see how personal actions affect the environment
- Using creativity and imagination to think of new ways to use old objects
- Becoming aware of waste and personal usage
Math and Manipulative
- Knows number names and count sequence
- Recognizes numbers
- Knows the number of objects in a small set without counting
- Compares numbers
- Understands and creates simple patterns
- Describes attributes of items
- Sorts items into groups based on color, size or shape
- Know names of common shapes
- Compares groups of items to understand more and less
- Begins to develop an understanding of the passage of time based on their daily schedule
Sensory, Science and Technology
- Observes and describes different objects in their environment
- Engages in scientific talk
- Makes predictions
- Plans and conducts investigations and experiments
- Identifies the five senses
- Compares and categorizes different objects in their environment
- Begins to understand different life cycles
- Describes how the weather affects our lives
- Identifies items in the daytime and nighttime sky
- Uses technological resources to problem-solve, communicate and illustrate
Large Motor Development
- Demonstrates control, strength, and coordination of large muscles
- Walks and runs with control and balance
- Jumps and climbs on playground equipment
- Throws and catches a ball
Small Motor Development
- Demonstrates increasing control, strength and coordination of small muscles
- Uses fingers to manipulate a variety of materials
- Traces and cuts different shapes
- Begins to make letters in large spaces
Health and Safety
- Demonstrates self-care skills
- Understands the importance of personal hygiene
- Has a knowledge of personal safety practices and routines
- Understands that food is a need
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