Pre-Kindergarten (4 – 5 years)

Getting Ready for School

The Journey™ Curriculum at La Petite Academy is specifically designed to meet the child care and learning needs of four and five year old children. This challenging, fun and age-appropriate program engages the whole child, helping to hone thinking, reasoning and communicating.

Ensuring Your Child’s Seamless Transition to Kindergarten

The Pre-K classroom at each of our La Petite Academy daycares is designed to help your child make significant developmental gains, like communicating successfully, and working well both independently and in groups. Our highly trained teachers will use designated Learning Centers to prepare your child for kindergarten and life beyond.

La Petite Academy’s Pre-K Learning Centers

Your Child’s Day

The year-round Pre-K curriculum includes 22 themed units that incorporate the best practices of early childhood education experts and promote school-readiness. Your child will create journals and portfolios that encourage communication through drawing and writing, and participate in our Kids of Character program, which focuses on developing important character traits. The typical daily structure for your child might include:

• Morning and Afternoon Circle time where the day’s themed activities are introduced and reviewed.
• Opportunities to explore and evaluate feelings during “Your Opinion Counts” time.
• Activities in the Learning Centers to bring the day’s educational theme to life.
• Story time, which allows your child to read a story with the class or act out a character.
• Song and Poem time to strengthen early literacy skills.
• Music and movement to expand your child’s vocabulary and listening skills.
• Outdoor play at least twice daily to participate in group play, burn off energy and develop motor skills.
• Lunch and quiet time to nourish and rest your child’s growing mind and body.

In addition, our Journey Summer Program offers three months of learning, fun and sun filled with exciting themes and activities that reinforce learning objectives and further school-readiness.

You’ll receive assessments regularly through daily written reports, ongoing portfolio collections, quarterly reports and family/teacher conferences twice a year, so you can rest assured that your child is progressing throughout the year.