Available for children who are 3 years old as of September 1, 2019
The ultimate goal of our programs is to ensure that your child is ready – academically, socially and emotionally – for their start of Kindergarten. Growing with Grace Preschool uses the Illinois Early Learning Standards as our guide to prepare the students and follow kindergarten readiness guidelines used by District 70 Schools in Libertyville. We begin introducing these skills in the Tremendous Threes program and concentrate more heavily on them in the Fabulous Fours. To support this development, we use the Handwriting Without Tears program and Bridges math curriculum.
Our curriculum revolves around monthly themes where each circle time and class activity incorporates an academic lesson related to the theme. Some of the learning goal highlights are: socialization, shapes, colors, counting and number recognition, graphing, patterning, sorting, letter recognition, cutting, pencil grip, and fine/large motor skills.
Developing the whole child is an important part of our program. In addition to daily encouragement, each class attends a monthly Chapel session to reinforce the virtue of the month such as kindness, sharing, and patience. We also offer in-house enrichment with visits from local educators such a Music-in-the-Box, Core Martial Arts, Talent Forum Dance, Yoga classes and the bookmobile from Cook Memorial Library. In addition, each class goes on three field trips each year.
The class sizes are limited to 15 students with two teachers. Parent helping is not required, but there are numerous opportunities to join us in the classroom. We have monthly helper sign-up sheets or you are welcome to assist at any time that is convenient for you.
Class Objectives
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Social developmental skills
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Colors
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Math skills
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shapes, number recognition, counting, one to one correspondence, graphing, patterning, sorting
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Literacy skills
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letter recognition, name recognition
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Science exploration
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Fine motor skills
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Large motor skills
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Self help & independence skills
Sample Daily Schedule
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Greetings
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Outdoor & large motor play
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First Circle time
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jobs, learning lesson
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Snack time
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Activity time
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free choice, projects, small group/teacher time
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Clean Up time
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Second Circle time
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story time and music/movement
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Goodbyes
Example of regular activities
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Letter of the week and letter book
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Games Day
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Cooking Day
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Family Guest
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Science experiments & exploration
2019-2020 Class Offerings
- Monday/Wednesday/Friday*
- 8:45-11:15 a.m.
- Tuesday/Thursday*
- 8:45-11:15 a.m.
*Lunch Bunch Option: Lunch Bunch extends the day an extra hour until 12:15pm and incorporates lunch and playtime. Options allow to add one day or two days a week.
In addition to the core Tremendous Threes Program, we offer Adventures A-Z Enrichment Class (Mondays).