Preschool (Ages 3-5) - Nicholasville, KY
During these formative years our teachers introduce your active and enthusiastic learner to more structured learning opportunities. One of the best ways we can help your child succeed is to teach them to be creative and confident thinkers. Our approach to your preschooler’s development reflects that belief through hands-on exploration and discovery, which helps build critical thinking skills, creativity and confidence. We tap into your child’s natural curiosity of their environment through hands-on, project-based investigations of everyday topics. Children work on learning letters and letter sounds, name recognition, as well as letter and number recognition. They will experience large group, small group and individualize time. Upon graduating our preschool program, your child will feel confident and prepared to enter Kindergarten.
Classrooms are set up into the 7 learning centers across all ages. Each center plays a major role in the child’s development. In blocks, children work on their hand/eye coordination while building blocks. In dramatic play, they are learning about pretend play which develops practical life skills. In math and science, they are developing problem solving skills, as well as cause and effect. Each learning center is designed to constantly provide an active and engaging environment, work on social and emotional development, help label emotions, and offer guidance on helping to cope with those emotions.
Meet Our Teachers
The Creative Curriculum for Preschool
One of the best ways we can help your child succeed is to teach them to be creative and confident thinkers. Our approach to your preschooler’s development reflects that belief through hands-on exploration and discovery, that helps build critical thinking skills, creativity and confidence. We tap into your child’s natural curiosity of their environment though hands-on, project-based investigations of everyday topics. This study approach allows your child to gain a deeper understanding of the topic by asking questions and discovering answers through exploration.
We focus on 38 research-based objectives that will inform every study and are aligned with state early learning guidelines.
SOCIAL-EMOTIONAL
1. Regulates own emotions and behaviors
a. Manages feelings
b. Follows limits and expectations
c. Takes care of own needs appropriately
2. Establishes and sustains positive relationships
a. Forms relationships with adults
b. Responds to emotional cues
c. Interacts with peers
d. Makes friends
3. Participates cooperatively and constructively in group situations
a. Balances needs and rights of self and others
b. Solves social problems
PHYSICAL
4. Demonstrates traveling skills
5. Demonstrates balancing skills
6. Demonstrates gross-motor manipulative skills
7. Demonstrates fine-motor strength and coordination
a. Uses fingers and hands
b. Uses writing and drawing tools
8. Listens to and understands increasingly complex language
a. Comprehends language
b. Follows directions
9. Uses language to express thoughts and needs
a. Uses an expanding expressive vocabulary
b. Speaks clearly
c. Uses conventional grammar
d. Tells about another time or place
10. Uses appropriate conversational and other communication skills
a. Engages in conversation
b. Uses social rules of language
COGNITIVE
11. Demonstrates positive approaches to learning
a. Attends and engages
b. Persists
c. Solves problems
d. Shows curiosity and motivation
e. Shows flexibility and inventiveness in thinking
12. Remembers and connects experiences
a. Recognizes and recalls
b. Makes connections
13. Uses classification skills
14. Uses symbols and images to represent something not present
a. Thinks symbolically
b. Engages in sociodramatic play
LITERACY
15. Demonstrates phonological awareness, phonics skills, and word recognition
16. Demonstrates knowledge of the alphabet
17. Demonstrates knowledge of print and its uses
18. Comprehends and responds to books and other texts
19. Demonstrates writing skills
20. Uses number concepts and operations
21. Explores and describes spatial relationships and shapes
22. Compares and measures
23. Demonstrates knowledge of patterns
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
24. Uses scientific inquiry skills
25. Demonstrates knowledge of the characteristics of living things
26. Demonstrates knowledge of the physical properties of objects and materials
27. Demonstrates knowledge of Earth's environment
28. Uses tools and other technology to perform tasks
SOCIAL STUDIES
29. Demonstrates knowledge about self
30. Shows basic understanding of people and how they live
31. Explores change related to familiar people or places
32. Demonstrates simple geographic knowledge
THE ARTS
33. Explores the visual arts
34. Explores musical concepts and expression
35. Explores dance and movement concepts
36. Explores drama through actions and languageE
ENGLISH LANGUAGE ACQUISITION
37. Demonstrates progress in listening to and understanding English
38. Demonstrates progress in speaking English