Early Childhood

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The world is filled with things to discover in our Early Childhood programs, where vibrant experiences fascinate and inspire our youngest learners, from Baby Nido through PreK-4.

This is a time of unique moments and developmental milestones – a time when your child needs positive, nurturing interactions as well as rich, purposeful learning opportunities. KLA Academy's child-centered approach to education encourages young children to explore, think, and play as they develop the powerful tools they need for lifelong learning.

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Preschool Programs

Baby Nido

3-12 Months

Your baby’s brain and body are growing quickly at this developmental stage, and our nurturing, homelike environment is designed to support their changing needs.

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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

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Nido

1-2 Years Old

As your toddler gains confidence through meaningful classroom interactions and a strong parent-educator partnership, they will learn to navigate first relationships and begin to find their place in the world through words and actions.

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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

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Pre-K2

2-3 Years Old

While your child continues to discover a stronger sense of self, the Pre-K2 class purposely supports their increasing independence as they continue to build a strong foundation for the years to come.

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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

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A 2-year-old girl doing art in our preschool in Miami

Pre-K3

3-4 Year Olds

Each day in Pre-K3 is filled with increasing learning opportunities that will ignite your child’s curiosity, interest in communication, and connection with peers.

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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.

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Pre-K4

4-5 Years Old

Our vibrant Pre-K4 class exposes children to a variety of materials and experiences to encourage an exchange of ideas and create a rich learning environment. Our educators guide your preschooler’s curiosity and thoughts to create meaningful academic, social, and emotional experiences to ensure readiness for Kindergarten.

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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.

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PreK4 students working together in class at our preschool in Miami

What do you love about KLA Academy?

There are a million reasons to love being a student at KLA Academy! Here are just a few from some of our Preschool students. For daily stories and updates from our students and community, follow us on Instagram.

Nido

Books! Brown Bear, Brown Bear, Horsey!

- Emma, Nido

Pre-K2

I like playing with toys. I like playing with Alexander.

- Casandra, Pre-K2

Pre-K3

I do many fun things at school. I go to the playground. In Atelier class, I draw.

- Oliver, Pre-K3

Pre-K4

I love doing shows in the theater and going on stage. I like the rooftop and the playground, too.

- Maximos, Pre-K4