Thank you for your interest in SonShine PreSchool and entrusting your child(ren) to our care. We are very proud of our preschool program. We are happy to say that we offer a friendly and safe environment, competitive rates, before and after care, and and exciting learning program.
I feel so blessed – and I know you will too by the end of the school year. Mrs. Yvonne Denmark is the Preschool Director. She is a New York State Certified teacher and retired early after teaching 20 years in the public school system.  She has joined us and will be a great asset to our teaching team.
Your child(ren) will be exposed to a wide variety of educational experiences and will be learning constantly from everything around them. They will be acquiring many new skills which will assist in their self-confidence and social development. If you continue to read below it includes several aspects of your child(ren)’s learning experience while attending here at SonShine PreSchool.
Sincerely,
Rose Foster
Administrator

There are many skills that your child(ren) will learn. Our projects and activities all work together as reinforcement to encourage growth and development in all areas.

3 year old Program

Classes are very flexible for the 3 year olds. Classes are offered Monday through Friday 9am – 3pm. It’s your choice of as little as one ½ day per week to five full days per week. In this time they will learn the following:

Social : How to separate from home and parents for short times
             How to play with peers, share toys and interact                       
             How to listen and follow directions
             How to do more for themselves, thereby increasing self-confidence and ability

Academic : Exposure to shapes, colors, numbers, seasons, science, music, art, letter recognition and their sounds, and much more.

4 year old Program

Classes for the 4 year olds are Monday through Friday 9am – 3pm and we offer 5 half or 5 full days. Below is the Scope and Sequence for our 4 year olds’ class.  In reading this you will see that our program is more advanced than the normal Preschool curriculum, it is more of a “light” Kindergarten program.

In Language Arts they will be learning:

• Alphabet
• Colors
• Directions
• Following directions
• Grammar – form simple sentences
• Personal recognition – read and write first and last name
                                     - know age and address
                                     - Recognize names of family members
• Phonics  
• Shapes
• Stories & Poems
• Writing 
• Listening skills
• Patterns
• Sequencing
• Size concepts
• Word recognition

In Mathematics they will be learning:

• Comparisons – big, little, alike, different
• Matching
• Cardinal Numbers – to 100
• Before & After
• Ordinal Numbers – to 9th
• Problem Solving
• Number words
• Addition - to 10 and multiples of 10
• Place Value
• Time
• Calendar
• Matching
• Subtraction – to 10
• Money
• Skip counting – 2’s, 5’s, 10’s
• Greater/Less Than