Preschool & Junior Kindergarten

Preschool

Preschool at Beacon prepares your child for a lifetime of learning!

Our Preschool program focuses on teaching each child how to learn, while nurturing their potential and rewarding their efforts. Emphasis is placed on the role that social skills and personal interaction play in building a foundation for a lifetime of learning.

Studies show that the most important years of a child’s brain development and learning patterns occur from infancy to age five. Beacon has designed a unique fun-filled program to create an appreciation and joy of learning in young children. This is not your typical child care or preschool, but rather an early learning program based on love, support and a low student teacher ratio designed to make your child feel at home while growing up. We value the opportunity to set a course for young children to succeed in school and life in the coming years and hope that their early beginnings at Beacon will be both memorable and rewarding.

• Recognize letters and letter/sound associations
• Write his/her name
• Answer questions and retell stories for reading comprehension
• Sequence numbers from 1-20 or higher
• Add with concrete objects
• Make simple predictions and explorations in science
• Good social skills development

Junior Kindergarten

Junior Kindergarten is joyful and fun filled!

Junior Kindergarten is a wonderful time for children to explore with natural curiosity. Children begin their academic path, learn how to learn, and how to work with one another in a cooperative manner. Our children blossom during this year: most begin to read. This pre-kindergarten program is high level and accelerated, but very low pressure.

Our children are introduced to a wide variety of quality literature, which serves to expand their knowledge of literacy and the world in which they live. They are taught a comprehensive phonics program and a variety of strategies and skills that will lead them to become independent, confident readers. They enjoy listening, speaking, poetry, and communication skills while working on comprehension, vocabulary development, sequencing, following directions, syntax, and memory skills. Children love practicing these skills in drama. Music, French, Science, Social Studies and Drama keep children intrigued!

A hands on, experiential math program initiates the development of math concepts and is supported by a second math program. Experiments teach the children the concepts of size, one-to-one correspondence, math vocabulary, counting, sequencing, number recognition, patterns, and initial addition and subtraction.

• Read simple words and sentences
• Decode word units at a first grade level
• Write letters and numbers
• Add and subtract to 10, write number sentences
• Perform in annual school play
• Develop social and interpersonal skills