Early Education Program and Pre-Kindergarten

Our Pre-Kindergarten program stresses thematic child-initiated learning with emphasis on social, emotional, and whole language development. It offers many creative opportunities for young children to seek and discover, delight and celebrate the world and one another.

Early Education Program Hours

• 3 Year Olds - 8:30 AM to 11:00 AM Monday - Wednesday
• 4 Year Olds - 8:30 AM to 11:00 AM Monday - Friday

What Do We Offer?

• Knowledgeable faculty with over 10 years of early education experience, who love children and will nurture young minds for the future.
• Mrs. Jan Rowe has been involved with the CKS early education program for more than twelve years.
• A strong program developed along with nationally recognized guidelines set forth by the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC).

The Curriculum

• Language, Thinking Skills and Concepts

  Emphasis is placed on enhancing children's literacy; learning through play, alphabet and phonemic awareness activities.

• Pre-Math and Reading Readiness

  These skills are building blocks to more concrete skills learned later, when the child is developmentally ready for success in reading. Activities include: following directions, listening comprehension sequencing, expanding spoken language, and categorizing. In math, activities may include sequencing, categorizing, patterning, and matching. Other experiences involve shapes, numbers, counting, and one-to-on correspondence.

• Perception

  Skills related to the senses; enabling a child to identify and compare using all senses.

• Motor Skills

  Small motor skills with the hands, and activities will prepare the child for the writing skills later in school years. Gross motor skills help build large muscles so the child can walk, run, skip and jump.

• Self-help Skills

  These skills will help children take care of themselves independently. A sense of pride develops which will help them to learn new skills with better ease.

• Social Skills

  Social skills include interaction with others and objects around the child. Learning to interact in a positive way with others is one of the primary objectives of our classroom.

• Music and Dramatic Play

  Our curriculum provides opportunities for the child to act out rhymes, stories, songs, and books and to participate cooperatively with other children in dramatic play.

• Art

  Art activities for young children are process, rather than product oriented with many opportunities being given to use many different art materials and mediums.