VPK

Pre-Kindergarten classes, our teachers work closely with each of our students to perfect and sharpen all of the skills they will need for Kindergarten. It is our ultimate goal to ensure that all of our students are emotionally, physically, cognitively, and behaviorally prepared for the demands of a Kindergarten classroom. Students need to have a well-developed sense of confidence, to be able to follow instructions, recognize authority, understand and follow schedules, communicate effectively, have good listening skills, practice self-regulation, get along with and relate to others, manage bathroom needs, and actively participate in physical activities.
In order to help our students master each of these fundamentals and local Kindergarten benchmarks, our teachers use fun academic reinforcements in their daily lessons. Our students will be taught to begin easily recognizing words and more complex concepts surrounding them (such as the basics of sentence structure and word families.) They begin understanding early mathematical concepts (such as weight, size, position, and patterns.) A passion and love for reading will also be passed down to them through involved and interactive story times. They will be able to retell stories and, in the process, learn sequencing. Simple analogies (sky/blue, grass/green) are also introduced to expand critical thinking skills.
By the end of each student’s time in our Pre-K class, they are confident and ready to face the new phase of their life as they move on to Kindergarten.
On a bi-annual basis, we do a formal evaluation based off of age-appropriate benchmarks in order to assess each child’s growth and development.