Pre-school

(2 - 5 Years)

Our preschool and pre-k classes focus on preparing your child for entry into school. We provide a curriculum that is not only focused on understanding and appreciating your child but on the development of your child’s potential. Our program is filled with investigation, exploration, and discovery, where active and enthusiastic children can refine and expand their skills and knowledge. Through intentional teaching, purposefully-designed learning environments, and enriched activities, our teachers ensure your preschooler will have meaningful learning experiences that lead to success in school and in life.

We provide your child with

- Nurturing, safe and happy environment.
- Educational toys & stimulating activities
- Exclusive age-based curriculum.
- A variety of learning experiences

We believe that

- Each child learns and develops at his or her own pace
- Preschoolers learn by using their senses
- Preschoolers learn through language and movement while developing skills
- Preschoolers need hands-on experiences with a wide variety of materials
- Partnering with you is essential to your child’s development

Our Classrooms:

- Learning Stations
- Hands-on Activities
- Exploration Area
- Social Interaction
- Discovery Area
- Safety is our priority
- Milestone-Based Curriculum

Pre-School: At Growth Mindset Learning Lab, we realize that loving and learning go hand-in-hand. We use ‘ages and stages’ tools for measuring child development. We strive to have the most comprehensive learning and supportive environment possible. We want your preschoolers to be happy, safe, and receive a well-rounded foundation for the future. Learning occurs daily as your child interacts with their peers and teachers in small and larger groups. We provide opportunities to have fun and discover new skills in appropriate learning centers and, at recess, play outside.

Our exclusive milestone-based curriculum focuses on the following areas of development

Language Arts

Pre-schoolers are constantly increasing their vocabulary. Children enjoy the library center with age-appropriate books as they have opportunities to share and retell their stories. Each week, learning a new letter with fun experiences gives them a strong foundation for reading and writing. Children are encouraged to ask questions, share ideas, explore their feelings and talk. They begin the process of simple sight words and letters and making sentences in conversations. Sign language is taught as a second mode of communication. An introduction to Spanish is also taught with simple numbers, colors, and basic communication.

Science

Children are natural explorers! We help them explore their world by providing science centers for growing their own plants, feeding our fish, watering our flowers, and experiencing science experiments and projects. The children enjoy their classroom sand and water table by seeing items float and sink and finding hidden treasures in the sand. We encourage your child to use their own problem-solving skills in various situations.

Mathematics

We encourage counting and identifying numerals. Each week a new number is added to our curriculum. We count, add, and take away to learn math techniques. Patterns, shapes, and measuring devices are also for learning experiences and solving simple math problems. Children will practice sorting objects and learn how to sequence items. The blocks center is utilized daily to build roads, towers, garages, buildings, and many more imaginative structures.

Social and Emotional Development

Problem-solving skills are worked on daily by using charts and communication. Children are beginning to learn how to accept independence and play with their peers and take turns. Our dramatic play center is a favorite. Pretending, dressing up, cooking, and having tea parties are always fun activities you can observe in our rooms.

Fine and Gross Motor Skills

Our preschoolers practice their motor skills daily. Skills, such as feeding themselves, learning to hold pencils, creating colors, and working puzzles find tune each other the fine and gross motor skills. Our teachers support this development by providing appropriate materials such as play dough, crayons, markers, colored pencils, and various puzzles. Your children run, climb, jump outside, throw and kick balls, and dance with or without music. Our preschoolers are active! We practice walking in a straight line, walking backward, jumping through hoops, and balancing on one foot. They even play musical instruments and enjoy making their own music as they learn.

Social

Toddlers begin to learn to play for longer periods of time, but they still need to know their teacher is close by. Our teachers play, talk, and are very involved in the child’s day. Social skill activities are planned to help toddlers share and respect the rights of others. Toddlers love to help pick up toys, so the teacher uses this as part of their daily activities. Arts and crafts activities are planned daily and are displayed in the classroom and hallways.