focusing on children ages
3 years - 5 years

Mission and Philosophy

The preschool age group is where we begin laying the foundation for academic success for the remainder of the children’s lives. This may sound extreme, but it is at this age where learning can be fun, exciting and rewarding and create that expectation for learning throughout life.

Our goal for preschoolers (age 3-5 years old) is to prepare them with the foundational skills be able to learn not only in their primary education, but to engrain character, a sense of community and integrity into the lives of these young students. In order to facilitate this, our environment is created in a way for them to explore with a little more purpose and intent as they still engage in play. Our areas of development are thought out to impact their thinking, social engagement and cooperation as they explore and create. Our teachers are trained to observe, document and assess their development as they move along their age specific milestones. We then make adjustments to the environment or direct instruction to specific children to help them individually move as each child may learn or engage in the environment differently.

Daily routine

Our daily routine and activities are pretty similar each day. Our teaching philosophy is based on the High Scope Philosophy, which simply allows for some self-directed activity time for children to engage in our areas of development, with small and large group direct instruction from our teachers. Our day starts by highlighting the areas of development that are available, and a description of the areas of focus within each area during breakfast. The children are allowed to engage as they desire while teachers support their play, observe and ask questions about their ideas, thoughts and answer the children’s inquiries. We then review what the children have done during their self-directed activity time during our morning snack and circle time.

We then transition to gross motor activities either outside or inside if the weather does not permit. Following this time, we have lunch and rest time or quiet activities for those who do not rest. We then resume more social play and self-directed activity time in the afternoon with some small group led activities and a return to more gross motor activities leading to the close of the day.

Kindergarten Readiness


Overall, parents are looking to prepare their child for primary education in a school setting and we want to ensure you that that is what we strive to prepare your child for. Preschool is just that “pre-school” suggesting that it is precursor to formal education. Not only is our focus on the academic readiness, being able to navigate the social, emotional and structural aspects of formal education. How to function in a group, how to negotiate play, turn taking, recognizing your own needs and the needs of others are just as important as reading, writing and arithmetic. Beyond the school setting, these skills help your child be successful at life and we want to help produce winners at life not just repeaters of the information given to them.