Preschool Child Care Classroom

Ages approximately 2 ½ to approximately 4 years

By the time children move into our Preschool Child Care Classroom, they have mastered many of the language skills necessary to express themselves verbally. Preschool children play an active role in their learning process, often wanting to figure things out for themselves. Preschool children need warm, caring adults to guide them through this adventurous period and provide them many opportunities to practice newly acquired skills, explore interests, make choices, and more.

Children in our Preschool Child Care Classroom benefit greatly from a balance of teacher-directed and self-directed activities. Our curriculum at The Children’s Place is very intentional, which means we promote the learning of various skills in each and every activity we do. While teachers often plan activities that have a specific goal in mind, we believe that the most effective way to engage children is by taking notice of their interests and incorporating activities that will add new knowledge. Dictating what a child must do all day only makes the child an inactive component of his or her learning process, and is ultimately ineffective. The preschool teacher’s job is to give children choices and follow their lead to enhance that learning process.

Group and circle times become an important part of the preschool child’s day, as those group interactions make children aware of their surrounding community of people. Children learn to see their teacher as both the grown-up in charge and the advocate for them as individuals.

View the Preschool Child Care Classroom daily schedule.