4 Year Old Program

Our 4 Year Old Program continues to develop the skills and concepts from our 2 Year Old and 3 Year Old Programs, as well as preparing students for Kindergarten. Prior to the end of the school year, we will make a recommendation for your child to move on to Kindergarten or attend our Pre-Kindergarten Program.

The following options are available for the 4 Year Old Program:

Monday-Tuesday
Wednesday-Thursday-Friday
5 Days

Classes are available for morning sessions only.

For rates, please see our Tuition page.

4 Year Old Program Curriculum

Emotional Growth

Provide a safe, healthy and secure environment away from home
Provide a welcoming atmosphere and become a significant, consistent adult in child’s life
Create an environment that encourages curiosity, discovery and exploration
Provide experiences that will increase child’s positive self-image, sense of competence and pride in accomplishments
Provide experiences to develop qualities of responsibility, initiative and independence
Provide opportunities to increase attention span, including practice working independently, sitting still, concentrating, following directions and persevering until a task is finished
Provide opportunities for responsibility for completion of weekly homework lessons

Cognitive Growth

Provide learning activities in literacy, language arts and math
- receptive language
- expressive language
- creative writing activities using crayons, pencils, pens, markers, finger paints and water paints with small brushes
- visual discrimination through matching, finding hidden objects, and sequencing
- letter recognition
  - recognizing each letter in print
  - understanding the letter sound
  - finding the letter in the environment
  - expanding on letters in stories and vocabulary
  - proper letter formation in print
  - ability to properly write own name
- Number recognition
  - rote counting to 25
  - writing and understanding the numbers up to 20
  - beginning understanding numbers on the number line
  - correspondence counting and number meaning
  - graphing
  - patterning
  - memory skills
Provide learning experiences in science
- growing and the care of living things
- cooking activities
- gathering and collecting things from nature
- simple experiments
Provide a wide range of art and music activities
Facilitate creative and make-believe play
- with objects
- about situations
- assuming pretend roles
- interacting with other children

Social Growth

Encourage building friendships among all class members
Encourage sharing and taking turns
Encourage and model understanding and respecting differences
Encourage child to accept responsibility for maintaining classroom environment
Encourage child to work cooperatively with others
Encourage child to resolve conflicts constructively
Provide child opportunities to practice thoughtfulness and giving
Encourage child to take responsibility for own actions
Encourage expressive language over physical confrontation

Physical Growth

Provide opportunities for large muscle development, muscle and limb control
Provide opportunities for small muscle development
Provide opportunities to develop spatial skills, hand-eye coordination, balance and coordination
Encourage good habits of health and safety

Spiritual Growth

While Bella Bee Academy maintains a non-faith based environment, we do teach rules of life and good citizenship:

Encourage and model showing love for one another
Guide in development of ecological values and concern for our world
Help children recognize the differences and likenesses in people and show acceptance
Provide learning experiences about each holiday
Introduce rituals of thankfulness and concern