Classrooms
"Infants" (6 weeks-12 months)
Infants and toddlers are encouraged to develop at their own pace. Teachers read stories, sing songs, play games to develop motor skills, but most importantly spend a lot of time talking and cuddling to provide comfort, instill trust and create a warm and nurturing environment.
- Introduction to music through songs and instruments
- Introduction to language development through pictures, hand / eye contact
- Introduction to movement: rolling, stretching, dancing, etc.
- Introduction to colors and shapes
- Introduction to Sign Language
- Introduction to Spanish
- Outdoor play
"Waddlers" (12 months–24 months)
- Motor skills: mastering walking and running
- Language development through music, flash cards and story time
- Introduction to shapes
- Fine motor skills: coloring, finger painting and building blocks
- Continued introduction to colors
- Introduction to numbers and counting
- Introduction to shapes
- Introduction to letters
- Spanish
- Sign Language
- Outdoor play
- Independent skills: learning to hold a cup, spoon, fork
- Music with songs and instruments
"Toddlers" (2-3 years)
- Motor skills: mastering walking and running
- Language development through music, flash cards and story time
- Introduction to shapes
- Fine motor skills: coloring, finger painting and building blocks
- Continued introduction to colors
- Introduction to numbers and counting
- Introduction to shapes
- Introduction to letters
- Spanish
- Sign Language
- Outdoor play
- Independent skills: learning to hold a cup, spoon, fork
- Music with songs and instruments
"Pre-School" (3-4 years)
- Letter recognition: upper and lowercase A-Z
- Full name recognition: printing first name
- Printing uppercase A-Z
- Number recognition 1-15 or higher
- Shape recognition
- Introduction to cooking and science
- Learning responsibilities: clean-up time, tying shoes, zipping/un-zipping own zipper, washing and drying hands, buttoning and snapping
- Learning cause and effect
- Sequencing by size (3 items)
- Learning to understand the basic elements of time
- Active outdoor play
- Computers
- Opposites
- Sign Language
- Spanish: review all of the above, numbers 1-15
- Fine motor skills: pasting, painting, puzzles, coloring, cutting, building blocks, finger painting, tracing, pouring from one cup to another
- Math/Reading readiness
- Handwriting (Handwriting Without Tears Curriculum)
"Pre-Kindergarten" (4-5 years)
- Identifying rhyming words
- Phonics: matching letters to appropriate sounds
- Learn full name, age, address and phone number
- Patterning
- Recognizing order
- Introduction to sight word recognition
- Sentence structure
- Verbalize time concepts using a calendar and clock
- Printing first and last name
- Introduction to cooking, social studies and science
- Gross motor skills: running, throwing, and skipping
- Organizing and acting out puppet shows
- Active outdoor play
- Recalling items removed from a group
- Sequences by size (5 or more items)
- Understanding concepts of more or less
- Developing hand-eye coordination and multi-tasking skills
- Computers
- Sign Language
- Spanish: review all of the above, months of the year and salutations
- Handwriting (Handwriting Without Tears Curriculum)
"Before and After School Program" (5-13 years)
- Review and reinforcement of all of the above
- Writing and printing skills
- Math: tutoring by ability
- Homework help
- Computers
- Themed Activities
* All Subject to Change.
