Our Senior Kindergarten program recognizes that children will soon be entering schools that have a range of expectations for a child's social and academic performance. Our comprehensive curriculum places a clear emphasis on continuing development of strong language, reading and writing abilities, and mathematic skills essential for ongoing success in school and life.

This program is designed to meet the needs of "vivacious" and "ingenious" four-year-old. Often impatient and silly, they have just discovered humor and spend a great deal of time being silly and telling "jokes" that they have heard or made up which usually do not make any sense to adults, but other children think they are hilarious.

Four-year-olds feel good about the things they can do, exude with self-confidence, and are willing to try new adventures. They love to show off and will organize the group in escapades of dare devil stunts; many of which they see on television programs with cartoons and Super Hero’s. Because the four-year-old is just now trying to differentiate reality from fantasy and cannot estimate their own abilities accurately, they are capable of trying some outlandish and dangerous tricks. They need to be closely monitored and given an explanation of why they cannot fly like Superman, etcetera.

Four-year-olds approach the world with great curiosity and use their imaginations to help understand it. Wild stories and exaggerations are common. Pretending now goes far beyond "playing house" to more elaborate settings like fire station, school, shoe store, ice cream shop, hospital and other areas which interest them.
They can also make plans and complete tasks, which is obvious as they collaborate as a group deciding how they will play and what props they will use.

When it comes to learning, four-year-olds are developing greater self-control and ingenuity. They have learned to better manage intense emotions with coping strategies. They are now able to express what is wrong and can be guided to learn how to handle the situation which is causing them distress. Four-year-olds are beginning to have compassion towards others, they are sympathetic and attempt to console others who are having a difficult time. They are also beginning to suggest ways to resolve conflicts and encourage others to make right choices.

Four-year-olds want to try new experiences, be more self-reliant and seek to expand the areas of their lives where they can be independent decision-makers.

The vocabulary of a four-year-old is expanding daily. They have begun communicating in complex and compound sentences and often initiate and carry out long and interesting conversations both with children and adults. They are enthralled by written language and can associate letters with sounds.They are very conscious of words in their environment and will constantly ask “what does that sign say”. They are now able to print letters and spell some three letter words.

A four-year-old is intrigued with numbers and has a greatly increased capacity for learning maths concepts. They use logical reasoning to solve everyday problems and can effectively use language to compare and describe objects and shapes. Science is exciting to them because they love to explore and can now make sense of the world on a very basic level. Their creativity has sky-rocketed and the enjoy singing, dancing, and drawing. They are now able to make up their own songs and dances and their art work is not copied but of their own design and interests.

The four-year-old curriculum is Theme and Center based; capitalizing on the things they love, their more developed thought processes, the ability to express themselves, make their own decisions, and their unquenchable thirst for knowledge. Incorporated into their educational process are more advanced educational concepts for mathematics, literacy science, and social studies. Exploration, drama, and story-telling play a critical part in the daily activities . They will be reading stories with three word sentences by the end of the school year. Kindergarten will be trouble-free for these four-year-olds as they will already have the basic skills and knowledge needed to excel with the Kindergarten Curriculum in public or private school systems.