Our Program
THE PRESCHOOL offers a morning program (5 days/week, Monday through Friday,
from 8:00 a.m. to noon). If you have special request you want to have your child to stay late we can arrange that with small cost involve.
We’re open from early January through December. Please see the calendar for vacation dates.
MORNING PRESCHOOL includes free-choice and teacher planned activities,
snack (brought from home), indoor & outdoor play, and circle time.
Free-choice activities are always available, for example: blocks, manipulatives,
dress up, role-play, self-directed art activity (drawing, cutting, etc.) outdoor play,
books, sand corner, or water play…
Teacher-planned special activities include: special art projects, songs, music,
dance, Tamil, gardening, cooking projects, small group activities,
special books ,hands on math, simple science & nature, and circle times.
The Preschool offers a developmentally appropriate curriculum which emphasizes:
Children “Learning Through Play.
Opportunity for creative expression & social play
Individual and group projects relating to our themes
Children free to choose their activities indoors and outdoors
Many opportunities for children to learn about and observe science, gardening, and nature
Our Themes
Teachers plan the curriculum relating to subjects that are interesting to young children. Some ideas emerge from the children themselves, parents’ ideas, and our neighborhood. We plan many books, songs, cooking projects, and creative art projects relating to that theme. Parents are also welcome to join in with projects and circle times.
Some of our themes might be:
BUGS, BUTTERFLIES & GARDEN CREATURES
GARDEN ART
FAMILIES AT HOME, WORK & PLAY
NIGHT-TIME ANIMALS
RAIN FOREST
SEA LIFE
MY FEELINGS
COMMUNITY HELPERS
BIRDS
MUSIC
MAKING BOOKS
I’M SPECIAL, MY BODY & ALL ABOUT ME
WHEN I WAS A BABY, NOW I’M A BIG KID
FOOD & STORIES
EARTH & SPACE
BUILDING
