4-Year Old Program
Lead teacher: Janie Smith
Janie is our five-day four-year-old teacher. She taught kindergarten in Texas after receiving her BA in elementary/early childhood education from the University of Texas at Arlington. Janie taught for ten years in Texas and seven of those years in kindergarten. She has taught in the Hot Springs area teaching preschool and kindergarten in public school. She is a member of Arkansas Early Childhood Association and has taken the Pre-K Ella program.
Junior Kindergarten
The pre-kindergarten and junior kindergarten programs concentrate on the developmental skills of early childhood and allow each child the opportunity to acquire important readiness skills at his/her own rate. The curriculum focuses on the development of perceptual skills, auditory and verbal communication skills, as well as pre-reading and pre-math skills.
Pre-K Early Literacy Learning in Arkansas (Pre-K ELLA) is the foundation of our Pre-K and Jr.-K curriculum. The Pre-K ELLA program implements developmentally appropriate experiences that promote emergent literacy skills for children prior to their entry into kindergarten. Pre-K ELLA is based on the Arkansas Early Childhood Education Framework.
The curriculum is supplemented by teacher-made activities and projects that enhance the planned curriculum and offer enrichment and/or remediation as needed. A calendar and a basic outline of skills to be covered will be sent home monthly.