Kidworks Preschool

Over that relatively short span of time a child develops from a struggling infant to a confident socially acclimated pre-schooler ready to take on kindergarten and the world. What happens in between is what KidWorks is all about. We view a child’s development in terms of a spectrum. At one end a child’s needs are fairly primitive. Nutrition a clean dry bum a nice warm place to have a nap some fun things to look at and play with. Slowly those needs give way to more complex fundamentals. Social interaction recognizing shapes and colors identifying letters and numbers creative expression language skills. At the end if all goes as planned is a child fully prepared for entry to Kindergarten.

Beginning with the one-year-olds we use a professional learning curriculum by two leading providers HighReach and Mother Goose Time. These robust programs provide developmentally appropriate activities daily lesson plans and integrated themes. However we are not beholden to the prepared curriculums. We use them to provide a consistent series of guideposts but we encourage our staff to step outside the prepared curriculum when a good opportunity to do so presents itself. For example if the letter of the month is “P” and Tuesday’s prepared curriculum activity is a craft project coloring in and cutting out little pizzas we’d much rather the teacher take the kids into the kitchen to make (and eat) little pizzas.

If we and you as partners have done our jobs the first day of Kindergarten goes like this: Your child strides into the new elementary school like she owns the place pausing for a moment to watch with curiosity the inevitable crying child/crying parent scene in the hallway walks directly up to her new teacher introduces herself and asks politely where her desk is. Ready to go from Day One. Good manners good social skills good academic preparation. Your basic dream-kid for a Kindergarten teacher.