Westwood Christian Co Op Preschool
Preschool in Kalamazoo, MI 49006
Our purpose at Westwood Christian Co-Op is to partner with parents in order to:
Foster each childs awareness that he/she is a unique child of God and help develop his/her God-given potential.
Encourage social emotional intellectual physical and spiritual development of the child in an atmosphere of Christian love and acceptance.
Nurture and develop self-esteem and loving concern for others through participation in group activities with children of his/her own age.
- Child Ages:
- 3 years - 5 years
- Rates:
- $$
- Preschool:
- Yes
- Hours of Operation:
- SPLIT SHIFT Monday to Friday 9:00 am to 3:00 pm
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Spiritual Development is enhanced through sharing Bible stories exploring Gods world songs and prayer.
Social /Emotional skills such as helping cooperating negotiating and problem solving are developed through free and directed play-time.
Readiness Activities help develop the following skills: recognition of colors and shapes; sorting and patterning; introduction to letters numbers and counting.
Physical development occurs through activities with balls bean bags balance beam parachute and scooter boards. Small motor skills are enhanced through pegboards puzzles sewing painting cutting and various learning games.
Creativity is encouraged through music art and drama. Some activities include: block building playdough dramatic play story acting drawing puppetry and creative movement.
Gods World is explored through science and social studies units and field trips. Observing classifying and graphing skills are introduced.
The three’s program offers the young child an opportunity for free and directed playtime with others. Art activities physical movement musical activities story times and working with manipulatives are important parts of our day.
The Young Fives Program further develops the above skills. In addition the skills of letter and sound recognition and letter writing are developed. Math readiness skills include recognizing sequencing and writing numbers 1-20 making sets and simple adding and subtracting.
