What is Preschool?

Preschool is a voluntary educational program to get students ready for Kindergarten.

What is Preschool?

Preschool provides children with the foundational skills needed to be successful lifelong learners. All children come to the classroom with previous learning experience and they have an opportunity with their families to develop positive home school connections as part of their transition process to Kindergarten. Preschool children learn to be learners, how to be curious about how things work and find answers to problems.

Children will have multiple opportunities to have hands-on experiences and opportunities to learn about things that apply to their lives. Teachers will engage children in rich conversations and ask them open-ended questions as part of their intentional teaching lesson planning and interactions to expand on children’s learning. Early Childhood preschool curriculum emphasizes learning through play which is an active teaching and learning method that capitalizes on a child's natural desire to engage in play. This also includes social-emotional practices for self-regulation, creating relationships and language development.

A Preschool classroom focuses on things like self-control and positive behavior in the classroom. Teachers help students by practicing how to wait your turn, how to share, how to deal with frustration and how to solve conflicts. Since early childhood is the beginning of the development of social-emotional skills and the executive functions for self-regulation, staff in Preschool will support these skills that are just beginning to develop during the preschool age.