Preschool
Our Preschool Program is intended for children as young as 2 years 6 months up until 4, children will move into our Pre-K program the Fall after they turn 4. Each Preschool child has 1 1/2 hours of group time with their age specific group each day, mastering skills across several developmental areas. Outside of their designated group time, each child will have daily access to a 30-minute Orff Schulwerk program as well as activities in the Froebel Room, Art Studio, and the Outdoor Learning Environment.
Preschool age children learn through their own experiences, trial and error, and repetition. It is the role of our teachers to help and guide them by ensuring that the environment is safe and supportive. Each child develops in his or her own manner, developmental milestones progress differently for each preschool child over the course of their time at our school!
The Preschool children will master several skills across the following developmental areas:
Gross and Fine Motor Development
Creative Development
Cognitive Development
Social/Emotional Development
Language Development
Mathematical Development
Toliet Learning Policy:
A child needs to be toilet learned before the start of school. If your child needs to wear pull-ups, we consider this not toilet learned. We will however allow children to wear pull-ups only while napping if provided by the parent.
At the beginning of the year, teachers will take the 2 & 3 year old's to the toilet during their 9 a.m. group time and every hour thereafter. Teachers will provide assistance when needed but children should be dressed in non-restrictive clothing to make their toileting more successful.
If your child is not toilet learned by June 1st you will need to notify us. Once notified, you have several options:
Opt to pull your child’s enrollment in which you will be reimbursed for the tuition deposit.
Opt to place your child on an “On Hold” status, which means that we keep your fees, you don’t pay tuition, and we offer your spot to another family. We will work your child into an opening when toilet learning is completed and when we have availability. If your child is not potty trained or a spot does not become available for the contracted school year, you may enroll for the next school year with the fees we have “on hold” from the previous year. It is your responsibility to come in during the next school year enrollment period, the 3rd week of January, otherwise we will assume that you are no longer interested in sending your child to our school for the next school year and fees paid will be forfeited.
Opt to continue to secure your child’s spot by paying tuition on the contracted start date. Whenever the toilet learning process is completed, your child may start.
If you do not notify us by June 1st, we will assume there isn’t a toilet learning issue and will continue to reserve your child’s enrollment spot. The “On Hold” status will no longer be available after June 1st.
After June 1st, if your child is unable to start at the contracted time due to a delay in toilet learning you have 2 options:
Opt to continue to secure your child’s spot by paying tuition on the contracted start date.
Opt to pull your child’s enrollment, forfeit tuition deposit and enrollment fees and restart the enrollment process when your child is toilet learned. This includes new payment of the enrollment and tuition deposit fees.