Pre-Kindergartener’s

Our Pre-K program blend play based activities such as letter identification and silly stories with repetitive letter sounds to teach them crucial skills.

Pre-K Activities

Some further skills kids will develop in our pre-kindergarten program include:

  • Participating in teacher-led group activities
  • Managing transitions
  • Following rules and routines
  • Counting
  • Sorting
  • Expressing themselves through art and movement
  • Identifying some printed letters and words

The development of literacy skills is a high priority of our pre-kindergarten program, and in order to achieve this, we maintain a literacy center in each learning area that allows kids the opportunity to get hands-on experience with relevant materials such as books, paper, and writing utensils. This further helps them learn the fine motor skills they will need for written literacy later in life.

In keeping with our play and inquiry-based philosophy, we utilize exploration and play whenever possible to teach them these important skills, and so we incorporate play activities involving letter identification and reoccurring letter sounds.

Pre-K Curriculum

KidKademy’s curriculum for older pre-kindergarten kids is built around a foundation of two-week-long lesson-planning periods, with topics ranging from the weather, animal habitats, the changes of the seasons, helping in our communities, to science experiments. These study periods begin with inquiries into the topic at hand, followed by play-oriented activities to chase down the answers. First the children are asked what they know already about the topic, followed by asking their ideas on where they want to take the topic and what they want to learn.

Hands-on Learning in the Classroom

All of our play and inquiry based activities are designed to be hands on in order to provide a more personal learning experience for each child. For instance, during the fall, as they learn about the seasons changing, older pre-kindergarten children will go on field trips for apple- and pumpkin-picking at local farms.

Learning areas for older pre-kindergarten children contain many different aspects, such as for:

  • Dramatic play
  • Block and building
  • Sensory tables
  • Manipulatives and math
  • Science
  • Art and creative expression
  • A cozy corner
  • Literacy
  • Music and movement