Our Pre-K is a Kindergarten prep class. We are the Superheroes for Jesus! The goal of this class is to prepare students to transition smoothly into Kindergarten the following year. We work throughout the school year to strengthen social emotional skills, academic skills, and Kindergarten readiness. This class uses the Learning Without Tears (formerly Handwriting Without Tears) to teach how to form upper and lowercase letters, numbers, strengthen pre-writing skills, and proper grip. We introduce letter sounds and sight words and encourage early literacy with the Step Into Reading sight word books. Students practice writing their letters, names, and numbers independently while also learning shapes, colors, days of the week and months of the year. Basic math skills such as counting, more/less, sorting, making sets, simple patterns, ordinal numbers, graphing, simple patterning, measuring and sequencing are also introduced. Our students absolutely love conducting science and cooking experiments! This year, our students made rain clouds in a jar as we taught about the weather. Every month, the dramatic play area is rotated to keep things new and exciting for students. We utilize many hands-on learning opportunities such as playdough to enhance fine motor skills used to master proper grip, Legos and blocks to enhance STEM & STEAM learning, and academic based learning such as our Kindergarten table, workbooks, and teacher-directed centers. The teachers work with small groups at centers to work on mastering proper pencil grip, proper scissor grip, letter and number recognition and directed art activities. Our goal in Pre-K is to adequately prepare each student to move on Kindergarten or Jr. Kindergarten the following year with the proper academic foundation to build upon.
Pre-Kindergarten students also participate in monthly “fun days” including:
- Grandparent’s Day in September
- Orange/Harvest Days in October
- Thanksgiving Parties
- Happy Birthday Jesus Christmas Parties
- Western Days
- Valentine’s Parties
- Seuss Days
- Easter Parties
- Mother’s Day Parties
