Our 4-year-old classes focus on skills for school readiness, providing many hands-on learning activities, letter and phonemic awareness, calendar time, Bible time, working together in groups, large motor skills, fine motor skills, music and playing games.
Weekly, children are taught Bible Stories, songs. They also spend time talking about and working together on relationships and good character qualities as individuals and as a group.
Each day / week is centered on a theme. From there we plan a craft/ art project, read a book, plan activities and games. Some themes that we will cover during the year are: friendships, nursery rhymes, creation, nature, animals, owls, farms, acorns, seasons, reptiles, Mexico, insects, Noah’s ark, alphabet letters, bugs and more!
Every day children participate in cutting, gluing, painting, coloring, and creating. Some of the work projects focus on teacher instructed, following directions activities.
40 play centers are rotated throughout the year.
Pre-reading and reading activities will be presented such as letter recognition and a portion of Jolly Phonics, rhyming activities, language development skills, reading a large variety of books and acting out stories.
Gym time is a part of every day. We have 2 large motor areas. One is a 2 story indoor play center and the other a place to ride bikes, play with balls, balance beam, beanbags, basketball hoop etc. One time a week we will have a structured teacher directed time of hopping, skipping, jumping, running, balance, ball handling etc.
Exploring quantity, numbers, counting, one-to-one correspondence, sorting and classifying, graphing etc. Science activities include practicing observation skills, making a volcano, floating objects, activities with 5 senses, and exploring and observing our wonderful world.
$1,413/year or $157/month for 9 months
Class Ratio is 9:1 for 4-year-old classes
To register, download the registration form and mail with the $50 non-refundable registration fee to: Wheaton Bible Church Attn: Preschool Director 25W500 North Avenue West Chicago, IL 60185
Call 630.876.6674 now, to reserve a visit to one of the classrooms and see our fabulous teachers and daily routines.