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For a School Application Click Here Thank you for your interest in SonShine PreSchool. We are very proud of our preschool & kindergarten programs. We offer a friendly and safe environment, competitive rates, before and after care, and and exciting learning program. 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 is 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. 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. We also offer field trips several times throughout the year.

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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.

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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

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Kindergarten Program

1.  Biblically Based

2.  Cognitive Reasoning - LIFEPAC curriculum questions are designed to develop a student's coginitive reasoning.  Alpha Omega Publication go beyond typical memory questions like true & false, multiple choice, and fill in the blanks.  LIFEPAC questions develop analytical skills through the requirement of brief answers, essays, and experiments.

3.  Integrated Subject Material

- Mathematical skills are necessary in science
- Scientific research is rich in historical data
- Language Arts is valuable in communicating God's Word, God's history, and God's science

4.  Personalized Instruction - Combines individual education with teacher / instructor interaction

5.  Mastery Learning - Mastery Learning is based on the principles that a student must master the content and skills of a single lesson before progressing to the next.