4 Year-old Pre-K All-Day Program

"If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales.

If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales."

~ Albert Einstein

Our goal in our Pre-K classroom is to provide our students with an opportunity to learn while balancing both an organized enviornment and learning through play. We base our program on the Creative Curriculum with a focus on the Everyday Math Program and Handwriting without Tears. We feel that it is important to teach our students skills through hands on activity and movement.

Throughout the year the students are asked to do a few family projects which involve an activity that a parent and child complete as a team - most often some sort of art project. We believe that this is a great time to talk to your child about school and see his/her progress in learning. This is a wonderful way to get family involved in what is going on in the classroom.

As new themes arise each week we change our areas of the classroom to help keep our students' interest. It is always exciting seeing the students' reactions to our new items in the book area, sensory table, dramatic play, block area and discovery table. We also dedicate a bulletin board to a "Star Student" every other week to display pictures, favorites, and news about a friend in our class. The children always look forward to seeing who the next Star Student is.

Our Pre-K program is devoted to helping children grow and prepare for Kindergarten in a positive environment. We do our best to accomodate our teaching to service the needs of each child in our class. Ultimately, our goal is to guide our students day-by-day and facilitate their learning as they have only just begun their jouney in education.

Daily Pre-K Schedule

6:30-8:00 Arrival/breakfast/free play

8:00-8:15 Group time

8:15-8:30 Prepare for outside time

8:30-9:15 Outside time

9:15-9:30 Snack

9:30-10:20 50 minutes of free play/art

10:20-10:30 Clean up

10:30-10:50 Small groups

10:50-11:00 Story

11:00-11:30 Bathroom/Get sleeping bags/Get ready for lunch

11:30-12:00 Lunch/Bathroom

12:00-2:00 Naptime

2:00-2:30 Bathroom/Snack

2:30-3:15 Outside Time

3:15-3:30 End of the day Group Time

3:30-4:15 Free play

4:15-4:30 Clean up

4:30-4:45 Story time

4:45-6:00 Table toys/Stories/Dismissal

January 2026 News!

4s (Ms. Liz)

Happy New Year 2026!

January is here and it comes with lots of fun times!

We will talk about winter weather. We will work on self help skills. Snaps, buttons, zippers, and buckles. All we need to do and learn to play outside.

Winter animals—who is out in winter and who hibernates in winter? Where do frogs, fish, and other animals and bugs go in winter.

Winter play is great; sleds, making snowmen, snow balls.

We already enjoyed some winter play. We look forward to more play outside. Painting snow with watercolors is fun too!

Making penguins and other winter animals will be great fun and watercolor snowflake cotton ball snowmen is always fun.

So much fun in winter to make and do.

Happy Healthy 2026,

Miss Liz and the 4’s

4K

We have had an eventful 2025 and are looking forward to the new year! 4K is going to keep working on understanding emotions and coping tools along with personal space. We will dive into new topics while still incorporating number and letter recognition as well.

Our themes for January include Winter, Artic Animals, Emotions, and Senses.

Have a great month,

Ms. Jocelyne, Ms. Hasna, and Ms. Kaylee