Early Childhood

Through rich, purposeful experiences, your baby will: 

• Discover the joy of sounds and rhythms through language and songs

• Engage in exchanges and conversations (using coos and sounds), through games, books, and interactions with caring adults

• Shares feelings and needs through facial expressions and sounds

• Explore their curious nature, using their senses to examine the objects, people, and places in their world (placing objects in a container; moving from place to place by crawling or walking; or simply playing peek-a-boo)

• Experiences a variety of materials that engages all senses: clay, paint, light, fabrics

Our Baby Nido program is offered from 8:00 am to 6:00 pm, Monday through Friday. Pick up and drop off times are flexible.

Your child will experience:

• Engage in story time, interacts with environmental print and explore books 

• Begin making behavioral choices, such as washing their hands before lunch 

• Begins to recognize attributes of people and objects, play with puzzles, uses spatial awareness and identifies multiple ways to solutions 

• Explores graphic tools (markers, crayons, chalk) and leave marks on large papers

• Mimics real world experiences such rocking a baby, cooking, answering the phone

We offer part-time and full-time options in our Nido program. 

Part Time: 8:45 am - 12:15 pm (includes lunch time; snack and lunch must be sent from home)

Full Time: 8:45 am - 2:45 pm (snacks and lunch must be sent from home)

Additionally, Early Care and After Care programs are available. To learn more about these programs, visit our KLA Plus page.

Children are encouraged to accept measured risk and become more self-sufficient as they begin to: 

• Engage in back-and-forth communicative interactions with adults and peers and begin to connect language with ideas

• Understanding of number sense including: one to one correspondence, counting, more/less.

• Solve problems trying out many different solutions.

• Support hand muscle development through a variety of materials such as manipulating clay by pounding, poking, tearing, squeezing, and rolling. Thus strengthening future development of pencil grips and controlled movement.

• Engage in associative play and recognize peers by name

We offer part-time and full-time options in our Pre-K2 program. 

Part Time: 8:45 am - 12:15 pm 

Full Time: 8:45 am - 2:45 pm

Please note that both programs include lunch time, and students must enroll in our snack & lunch program.

Additionally, Early Care and After Care programs are available. To learn more about these programs, visit our KLA Plus page.

Children continue to express themselves with even greater depth and precision as they learn to:

• Develop listening comprehension and emergent literacy skills through extended vocabulary, communication, and read-alouds

• Make logical predictions based on pictures and begin to make real world connections between stories and real-life experiences

• Learn to develop hypotheses, theories based on observations, questions, and investigations

• Begin to represent their ideas/thoughts through a variety of ways

• Explore number sense, representation, spatial sense, and non standard measurement estimation

• Give meaning to their creations

• Interact with others through talking, sharing of materials and taking turns as they continue with associative and independent play. 

Our Pre-K3 program is offered from 8:45 am - 2:45 pm. Please note students must enroll in our snack & lunch program. 

Additionally, Early Care and After Care programs are available. To learn more about these programs, visit our KLA Plus page.

As your child prepares for the elementary grades they will experience learning opportunities at a greater depth and breadth by:

• Enjoys and participates in stories and understand that print carries meaning

• Attempts to read and write 

• Expresses age-appropriate phonological awareness in distinguishing individual words within spoken phrases or sentences.

• Recognizes shapes in isolation and the real world; sorts by color, shape, size and purpose

• Understands the relationship between numbers and quantities to experience and explore combining (add) and removing (subtract) with concrete materials

• Describes relationships between objects and locations with words and gestures by constructing models to demonstrate an understanding of proximity (besides, next to, between, below, over and under)

• Develops special friendships and is able to engage in prosocial behavior.

• Engages in associative play and begins to play cooperatively.

Our Pre-K4 program is offered from 8:20 am - 2:45 pm. Please note students must enroll in our snack & lunch program. 

Additionally, Early Care and After Care programs are available. To learn more about these programs, visit our KLA Plus page.