Pre-Kindergarten Program
Our Pre-Kindergarten Program focuses on preparing your child for a successful Kindergarten experience.
The Pre-K Program is offered as a 5-day a week program in the morning session only.
For rates, please see our Tuition page.
Pre-Kindergarten 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 multiple homework lessons per week
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 and sounding out the letter sound
- finding each letter in the environment
- expanding on letters in stories and vocabulary
- proper letter formation in print
- ability to properly write own name
- beginning experiences of setting and characters in literature
- beginning experiences of Pre-K/K “sight words”
- number recognition
- rote counting to 50
- writing and understanding the numbers up to 50
- refining understanding numbers on the number line
- correspondence counting and number meaning
- graphing with understanding and meaning
- 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
- charted 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
- Prepare child for future classroom independence
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
