Hayden Child Care

Educating for Life with the Mind and Heart of Christ

prekinder

Pre-School / Pre-Kinder

Our Cen­ter offers a learn­ing readi­ness pro­gram in a self-paced set­ting for two and four year old chil­dren. Our chil­dren learn all they need in order to become suc­cess­ful stu­dents in kinder­garten and beyond.  The inte­grated cur­ricu­lum includes:

Lan­guage and Lit­er­acy - a vari­ety of children’s lit­er­a­ture to pro­mote a love of read­ing. Our daily activ­i­ties develop read­ing and writ­ing skills and intro­duce impor­tant lit­er­acy con­cepts. The chil­dren are intro­duced to let­ters as well as phon­ics and sight word recognition.

Math Skills an intro­duc­tion to the world of num­bers, includ­ing sort­ing, group­ing, count­ing, and num­ber recog­ni­tion, as well as foun­da­tion in geo­met­ric figures.

Social/Emotional Skills — activ­i­ties that encour­age your child to talk, lis­ten, share, take turns, coop­er­ate, and develop good man­ners as he/she inter­acts with friends. The chil­dren learn the value of giv­ing and receiv­ing feed­back, of for­giv­ing, and are given oppor­tu­ni­ties to develop strong com­mu­ni­ca­tion skills. Pos­i­tive rein­force­ment helps chil­dren real­ize the impor­tance of being a team player and refines skills needed to flour­ish in a social envi­ron­ment. United with an atti­tude of faith the chil­dren learn that each per­son is spe­cial because God made them and this encour­ages them see the need to respect them­selves and others.

Cre­ativ­ity and Imag­i­na­tiondra­matic play, music and art activ­i­ties give every child the oppor­tu­nity to show­case their abun­dant cre­ativ­ity. We encour­age all chil­dren to express their ideas in order to help build con­fi­dence, inde­pen­dence and imagination.

Phys­i­cal Devel­op­mentlessons that help the chil­dren develop large motor skills-running, jump­ing, throw­ing and kicking-and prac­tice fine motor skills, such as writ­ing, draw­ing, cut­ting and other activities.

Science/Social Stud­ies- many oppor­tu­ni­ties are pro­vided for the chil­dren to learn about the excit­ing world we live in and its won­der. These are intro­duced through lessons on com­mu­nity helpers, cook­ing expe­ri­ences, water and sand play, hands-on-activities that encour­age health curios­ity and much more.

Play!Play is a vehi­cle through which the very young child learns and devel­ops.  Play is their work!  There­fore, the chil­dren may not have a work paper or art paper to take home each day. The stu­dents’ learn­ing expe­ri­ences take pri­or­ity over fin­ished prod­ucts.  

In order to assist par­ents, potty train­ing is now available.