Pre-Kindergarten
Heritage Christians Pre-Kindergarten program prepares your child for that big developmental step to Kindergarten. Through our challenging activities, children develop critical thinking and problem-solving skills they will need to be successful in kindergarten, school, and life. Your child will be presented with daily opportunities for listening, speaking, and engaging with peers and teachers.
Areas of Focus
- Language
- Math
- Science
- Sensory exploration
- Dramatic & Creative Play
- Blocks & Manipulative Play
- Art exploration
- Kinesthetic movement and physical education
Academic Program
Math time offers lots of hands-on addition and subtraction activities – introducing your child to the basic mathematic concepts. The world of science is where your child’s imagination will really come alive. Introducing science experiments and how science works throughout our day will keep your child’s mind engaged. And our program offers a continual path to strengthen literacy, mathematical skills, and most important social and emotional skills.
Physical movement and outside play is also important to a child’s development and is an integral part of our curriculum. Children play outside every day, weather permitting, in their own age-appropriate playground area. When weather is below 40 degrees or over 90 degrees, children play indoors.
As part of the Pre-K curriculum your child will participate in Enrichments that enhance different areas of their learning. The three daily Enrichments include:
- physical fitness in our fully equipped gym – building gross motor skills and teamwork
- computer lab and children’s library – offering individual instruction in language, reading, comprehension and fine motor skills with computers, hands-on activities and games, and books
- creative movement room – allowing your child to express their creative side through dance, music, drama and art
By allowing Pre-K students to experience these important developmental learning stages – they will be become more comfortable with their own independence and learning skills and techniques and be ready to move on to Kindergarten armed with a world of knowledge which will prepare your child to become a successful learner.
Preschool is a fun and exciting time in a child’s life. Your child will absolutely love coming to school daily at HCCC. Our teachers are very dedicated and experienced in the developmental stages of these important years. They realize that each child needs to develop at their own pace and therefore offer many activities in language, math, science, fine motor, and gross motor skills. The activities are set up in learning centers that offer opportunities for your child to develop self-confidence, decision-making, patience, and independence skills. Learning through play is one of the most important ways your child will learn and is an essential element of our curriculum.
Each class offers social circle time where students co-mingle and interact with the teacher and the daily lesson. This provides each student the opportunity to listen and speak and engage their classmates and teachers, building cognitive and social skills while learning.
Preschoolers also engage in learning at themed stations known as “shelf jobs” and “table centers”. Each classroom has designated areas where students gather in small groups to play with themed toys and learning tools. Each area focuses on mathematics and science, reading and language, dramatic play, practical life skills, and manipulative play.
- Math and Science area have games and tools that encourage counting, number recognition, and recognition of basic scientific principles, including collecting and examining “bugs”, scales to determine heavy and light, determining hot and cold, etc…
- The reading and Language area has familiar and contemporary books and other letter tools that encourage letter recognition, phonetics, and beginning reading skills.
- The Dramatic Play area encourages creative expression through pretending and role playing with costumes, puppets, and puppet shows, and ‘grown-up’ toys and tools like brooms, dustpans, workbenches, etc…
- The practical Life Skills area encourages teaching life skills like holding pencils and crayons correctly, how to hold silverware, washing hands, potty training, and cleaning up after yourself.
- The manipulative Play area encourages the development of gross motor skills through activities like sorting and building.
Physical movement and outside play is also important to a child’s development and is an integral part of our curriculum. Children play outside every day, weather permitting, in their own age-appropriate playground area. When the weather is below 40 degrees or over 90 degrees, children play indoors.
As part of the Preschool curriculum, your child will participate in Enrichment that enhance different areas of their learning. The three daily Enrichments include:
- physical fitness in our fully equipped gym – building gross motor skills and teamwork
- computer lab and children’s library – offering individual instruction in language, reading, comprehension and fine motor skills with computers, hands-on activities and games, and books
- creative movement room – allowing your child to express their creative side through dance, music, drama and art
By allowing preschoolers to experience these important developmental learning stages – they will become more comfortable with their own independence and begin learning tolerance, patience, rules, self confidence, decision making, and independence skills.
