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Program Information
Little Kings Preschool is a quality and affordable Preschool program that makes the transition to Kindergarten much easier. We offer morning or afternoon half day options that will help ensure your child is prepared and ex-cited to learn. Students who are 4 years old on or before August 1st are eligible to enroll. (A student may not turn 5 years old on or before April 30th of the current year.}
- Half day morning class: 8:15am-10:45am
- Half day afternoon class: 11:30am-2:00pm
- Special Education services are offered for qualifying students
- Low monthly rates
- Scholarships available
- CCDF vouchers accepted
- On My Way Pre-K families accepted
Enrollment Information
- Call the Preschool at 574-626-3001
- Email us at earlylearning@lewiscass.net
Areas of Focus for a Successful Student at Lewis Cass Preschool
We will focus on five key areas: academics, arts, motor skills, relationships, and play while having FUN! All of these areas combined give your child the best pathway for success. Your child may be strong in some areas, but need work in others. Our goal is for every student is to be proficient in every area.
Art
Art is an important part of your child’s early childhood education, regardless of whether you think he will grow up to be another Picasso. Children are active learners, and making art is a hands-on activity that expands imaginations and exercises creativity. It also develops small motor control and eye-hand coordination, and sharpens children’s powers of observation.Motor Skills
Just as gross motor skills enable your child to perform important everyday tasks, such as getting out of bed and going downstairs for breakfast, fine motor abilities allow for increasing independence in smaller but equally significant matters: opening doors, zipping zippers, brushing teeth, washing hands, and so on.
When combined with increasing hand-eye coordination, fine motor skills also open new doors to exploration, learning, and creative expression. In fact, research shows that emphasis on purely intellectual activities—memorization of letters and numbers, for instance—is far less useful at this stage than pursuits that encourage fine motor abilities and hand-eye coordination.
Relationships
The connection between child and teacher is more important than any curriculum. This is what every parent knows by instinct: nice teachers matter, especially for very young children. This is first time in many instances that your child will be separate from you for any extended period of time. It is very important that these new adult relationships with a teacher be nurturing and positive.
Play and having FUN!
Most parents assume if there is a focus on ABCs and 123s, it is drill and kill, and there is little room for play. Great preschools do both, and success in the early years of a child’s education often allows children opportunities to explore the building blocks of literacy and math through play.
Other kinds of play are just essential as well. Imaginative play, for example. Some form of daily “pretend play” improves emotional/behavioral skills. And emotional/behavioral skills predict academic performance later. When you visit the school, look for a costume corner, art up on the walls, pretend kitchen sets and pairs or small groups of children working together creating and collaborating.