Preschool at Hearts and Hands
Ages: 2–5 Year Olds
Learning by Doing
This is the age of big questions, new friendships, and boundless creativity. Our preschool program gives your child the space and structure to explore all of it. Through purposeful play and hands-on activities, we foster development across every domain — physical, social, emotional, cognitive, and language.
Our classrooms are designed at the child's level to encourage independence and minimize frustration. Teachers plan engaging experiences that build early literacy, math awareness, science curiosity, and artistic expression — all while helping children learn to cooperate, share, and express their feelings.
What to Expect:
A play-based curriculum that addresses the whole child
Classrooms designed and equipped for your child's developmental stage
Two snacks and a full lunch provided daily, prepared in our inspected kitchen
Outdoor play as a regular and valued part of every day
Positive guidance techniques including redirection, conflict resolution, and natural consequences
How does my child learn in play-based learning?
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We teach based on Pyramid Model, which is an evidence based framework that promotes healthy social and emotional development by supporting positive relationships, creating engaging environments, providing concrete teaching strategies, and when needed, creating individualized interventions for children
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We provide ample opportunity for each child to foster relationships with peers and adults. Through play, we assist each child’s progress through five stages of relationship building: cooperation and sharing; listening; problem solving; conflict resolution; and a sense of respect for self, environment and others.
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We provide a warm, nurturing environment that supplies the encouragement each child needs to begin to know and express oneself. We will provide opportunities and outlets for self-directed creative expression, and encourage individuality.
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We provide a safe, secure and predictable environment to help children experience many successes and build self-confidence. We help children validate their own feelings and respect the feelings of others.
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Large Muscle: develop balance and spatial relationships; coordination skills; confidence and skills with playground equipment; eye-hand coordination.
Activities can include running, jumping, climbing, hopping, ball play, relays, obstacle course, exercises, creative movement, blocks/construction, riding toys, skipping, galloping, circle games, parachute, climbing structures, slides, and carts/wheel barrows.
Small Muscle: develop eye-hand coordination, learn to control and coordinate muscles.
Activities can include cutting, pasting, painting, puzzles, stringing, pouring, play dough, dress up clothes, coloring/markers, printing/pencil skills, peg work, sewing cards, scooping, sorting, spooning, stacking, beads, dominoes, Legos. -
We provide an environment that fosters growth in language, math, science/sensory and problem solving at developmentally appropriate levels for each individual child.
Language/Reading Readiness: develop language skills; pre-reading and reading skills; develop and expand vocabulary; be exposed to language concepts and their application; apply pre-reading skills; be exposed to phonics; develop small muscle skills for writing.Math Readiness: be exposed to vocabulary and concepts; develop vocabulary; understand mathematical concepts; recognize symbols and quantities; develop process skills, problem solving and thinking.
Sensory/Science: be exposed to vocabulary concepts; develop vocabulary; understanding of size, shape, color, and texture; develop awareness of one’s environment and materials around them.
Problem Solving: develop creative thinking and design of an environment which allows for exploration and experimentation, solving problems, answering “what if” questions.