Open Year Around - 20 Colfax Ave, Clifton, NJ 07013
Sandy's Kinderland
Preschool Program
School Readiness Pathway
Pre-Kindergarten
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One step closer to Kindergarten. Our Pre-Kindergarten program includes small and large group instruction activities to enhance your child’s daily learning experiences and enrich their development.
At this stage in your child’s development, your child functions with more independence and curiosity. Toys, equipment and activities are designed to encourage discovery and learning.
Pre-Kindergarten Thrives
The day in Pre-Kindergarten begins in the morning with circle time, the first activity that promotes social participation and interaction. Children will be engaged with daily routines that encourage curiosity, problem-solving, and the generation of ideas and fantasy through exploration.
Pre-Kindergarten classrooms are equipped with age appropriate materials to explore the different centers such as Blocks, Library, Dramatic Play, Art, Discovery, Writing, Listening, Computer, providing the opportunity to interact with one and other and discover new ideas as they grow in independence and confidence.
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Creative Curriculum
The Creative Curriculum is aligned with the state learning standards to guide teachers understand the developmental domains.
- Social and Emotional Development: Sharing, caring, understanding and following rules, making new friends, or simply being a superman or princess are part of your pre-kindergartener social and emotional development.
- Cognitive Development: Engaging in an activity for longer periods of time, understanding and sequencing sizes, or knowing name, address and phone number are part of your child’s cognitive development
- Language Development: Asking lots of questions, talking in longer sentences, reading and retelling a story will encourage your child’s language and literacy concepts.
- Fine Motor Development: Throwing and catching a ball, writing names, lacing cards, or just simply touching and interacting with the smart board will increase the development of your child’s fine motor skills.
- Physical and Fitness: Galloping, climbing, running, jumping, dancing are part of your child’s physical and fitness development.
- Enrichment Programs: Your pre-kindergarten day will also be filled with enrichment activities to enhance their learning. Kindermusik,increasing school readiness and sharing the joy and power of making music, Kinder Yoga, Kinder Spanish, Kinder Literacy, Kinder Math, Kinder A-STEM, Gymnastics, Dance and American Sign Language.