Pre-Kindergarten Program

A Strong Foundation for Kindergarten

At The Children’s Courtyard, achieving kindergarten readiness is a group effort. Pre-K is an essential steppingstone, where children work independently and in groups through our tried-and-true early childhood educational approach. Our Pre-K program explores:

Problem-solving
Responsive listening
Using language to learn
Social and collaborative skills

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Pre-K Classroom

Classroom

Eight distinct learning centers learning centers in this classroom enable children to explore, discover, and develop a range of essential skills.

Pre-K Classroom

Art Center

Be creative and express yourself. In this center, children learn about a variety of art techniques, different color concepts and cooperation.

Pre-K Classroom

Block Center

While developing hand-eye coordination and learning to be inventive, children also use counting, sorting, and patterning opportunities to build goal-setting and critical-thinking skills.

Pre-K Classroom

Dramatic Play Center

Learning to express themselves emotionally, through collaborative pretend play, allows children to make sense of real life and further develop their early writing and reading skills.

Pre-K Classroom

Math Center

Numbers and simple math concepts, such as addition and subtraction, are introduced through sorting, ordering, and measuring activities.

Pre-K Classroom

Music and Movement Center

Children work on physical coordination, communication, and cooperation while having fun by dancing, moving and singing.

Pre-K Classroom

Science Center

Through an exploration of physical and earth science concepts, such as plant and animal life cycles, children learn to classify, analyze, predict and experiment.

Pre-K Classroom

Reading Center

Print awareness, word recognition, and story reasoning are all key literacy skills that children work on developing in this center.

Pre-K Classroom

Writing Center

Letter and word recognition and formation, segmenting words into sounds, and putting sounds together to make words are all ways that children learn to succeed at written communication.

Curriculum and Developmental Scales

The HighScope educational philosophy provides the foundation for our Young Achievers™ curriculum. Active learning is the defining element of the HighScope approach—giving students direct, hands-on experiences with materials, people and ideas—along with the Plan-Do-Review process. Meanwhile, children work toward milestones across 10 development scales, through customized lessons generated from our digital lesson planning tool.