Your School La Petite Academy of Gambrills, MD

Preschool Curriculum & Classes

Preparing Every Child for Kindergarten

3 - 4 years old

Like laughter, learning spreads joyously. Pass it on! Our preschool classroom is designed as a community, where your child not only builds skills vital to kindergarten success, but also gains respect for others, and a strong sense of confidence. As they bond with classmates, they:

Build independence
Develop cooperation & communication skills
Engage in hands-on learning

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Preschool Classroom

The STEM-inspired classroom provides materials and experiences to develop critical thinkers and problem-solvers. Content is learned through investigation, play, and focused intentional teaching. Science, technology, engineering, and math are integrated throughout, in eight learning centers.

Art Center

Creativity, problem-solving, and self-expression are developed in this center, as children discover different art techniques, color concepts, and cooperation.

Block Center

Children build hand-eye coordination as they discover different shapes and learn concepts such as counting, sorting, and patterning.

Dramatic Play Center

Through cooperative pretend play, children develop early writing and reading skills, explore emotional expression, and learn how to make sense of real life.

Math Center

Experiences in this center begin with sorting and comparing and build to concepts such as counting and numeral recognition.

Music & Movement Center

Children love to move, dance, and sing. This center helps them to work on physical coordination, cooperation, and communication while having fun.

Science Center

Children are encouraged to observe and question, through activities focused on plants, animals, weather, and the seasons.

Reading Center

The building blocks of literacy are established in this center, as children develop print awareness, story comprehension, and listening skills.

Writing Center

By exploring rhymes and sounds, letter recognition and formation, children begin the process of developing communication and early writnig skills.

Curriculum & Developmental Scales

Early Innovators™, our STEM curriculum, cultivates strong innovators and thinkers. Children learn best when making connections between diverse skills and concepts. We integrate science, technology, engineering, and math throughout the classroom. Teachers use our digital lesson planning tool to generate customized curriculum, based on assessment and observation, to meet the needs of each child, as they progress along 10 developmental scales.

Approaches to Learning

Measures children’s ability to plan, set goals, and interact with others and with the environment.

Language

Measures children’s expressive and receptive vocabulary and their ability to use conversation skills and vocabulary to communicate effectively.

Literacy

Measures children’s phonological awareness, alphabet knowledge, reading, and writing skills.

Creative Arts

Measures children’s ability to express ideas and feelings through music, movement, visual arts, and drama.

Logic & Reasoning

Measures children’s sequencing, problem-solving, and symbolic and critical-thinking skills.

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Early Math

Measures children’s ability to understand numbers, patterns, sorting, and ordering, as well as the ability to use numbers to add, subtract, measure, and graph.