Benefits of Preschool:
Research has proven children really do benefit from attending a quality preschool program. Here a few benefits children receive:
*Develop social skills (taking turns, listening, how to appropriately children).
*Develop academic building blocks and skills.
*More likely to become better readers and writers.
*More likely to have higher test scores.
*Less likely to be placed in special education or be held back a grade.
*More likely to graduate high school and attend college.
*More likely to have increased earnings.
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The following programs are offered through Tiny Town Pre-School:
Preschool Program:
The Preschool Program is offered two days per week. Our curriculum was developed with the
use of NJ’s Department of Education’s Preschool Teaching and Learning Expectations
Standards. Our classes are taught by certified teachers and teaching
assistants. The lessons taught in our Preschool Program consists of
language arts, mathematics, social studies, science, art, cooking,
music, health and safety, and the continuing development of fine and
gross motor skills. We also offer an enrichment program for our
preschoolers from 12:00 - 2:00, and parents have the option of
enrolling their child for either one or two days per week.
Tuesday/Thursday from 9:00 – 11:30
Tuesday/Thursday from 9:00 – 12:00
Tuesday/Thursday from 9:00 - 2:00
*Tuition ranges between $180 - $310/month
Pre-K Program:
Tiny Town’s Pre-K Program is offered three and five days per week. Our curriculum was
designed using NJ’s Department of Education’s PreschoolTeaching and Learning Expectations
Standards and NJ’s Department of Education’s Core Curriculum Standards for Kindergarten. The
lessons taught in our Pre-K Program consist of language arts, mathematics, social studies, world
language, science, art, cooking, music, health and safety, computers, and the continuing
development of fine and gross motor skills. We also offer an enrichment program for our
Pre-Kindergarten students from 12:00 - 2:00, and parents have the option of
enrolling their child for either one, two, or three days per week.
Monday, Wednesday, Friday from 9:00 – 11:30
Monday, Wednesday, Friday from 9:00 – 12:00
Monday, Wednesday, Friday from 9:00 – 2:00
*Tuition ranges between $220 - $410/month
Junior Kindergarten Program:
The Junior Kindergarten Program is a program offering an intense academic curriculum for
children 4.9 - 6 years of age. The state-of-the-art curriculum is broken down into several areas,
which include Language Arts, Phonics, Handwriting, Emergent Reading, Mathematics, Science
and Social Development. In addition, students are exposed to various areas which include
Spanish, German, Sign Language, Cooking, Music, and Computers. The Junior Curriculum
program was developed to ensure students are not repeating materials learned during Preschool
and Pre-Kindergarten. Students are exposed to new, exciting, hands-on materials and lessons
throughout the school year.
Parents are kept informed of their child's performance and progress through our quarterly
progress reports. By the conclusion of the school year, parents will have had a minimum of two
opportunities to meet with their child's teacher to discuss their child's performance and progress.
The Junior Kindergarten teaching staff will also offer their recommendation as to whether students
are ready to be promoted into Kindergarten or First Grade.
The Junior Kindergarten class runs five days a week, Monday through Friday. Parents have the
option of enrolling their child from 9:00 - 11:30 or parents have the option of electing to enroll
their child in our Extended Junior Program, which runs until 2:00, for one, two, three, or five days
a week.
Monday through Friday from 9:00 – 11:30
Monday through Friday from 9:00 - 2:00
(Split schedules are also available)
*Tuition ranges between $250 - $495/month
What Learning Centers Are Students Exposed To?
Students enrolled at Tiny Town Pre-School are exposed to various materials and activities on a
daily basis. Learning centers are also incorporated into our classroom daily schedules. Some of
these centers include, but are not limited:
Cognitive
Through fun games, puzzles, songs and manipulatives children are stimulated to think, observe,
reason, investigate, experiment, question and be creative.
Math
The children are exposed to numbers, sorting, classifying, sequencing, estimation and seriation.
We introduce counting games such as “Chutes and Ladders,” card games, number bingo, simple
addition games and subtraction games, etc.
Science
Our curriculum exposes children to various degrees of science along with hands-on experiments
and activities. Children are encouraged to make observations, make predictions, and test their
predications.
Cooking
Not only does cooking help build children's self-confidence, but it also teaches nutrition, math,
reading, and science through counting, measuring, symbol and word recognition, volume, change
of matter, temperature, etc.
Language Arts
Activities include identifying letters of the alphabet, beginning letter sounds, rhyming words,
phonics, introduction of new vocabulary words and their meaning, memory recall, sequencing and
story development.
Writing/Fine Motor Skills
Children gain familiarity and practice in using paper, pencils, pens, scissors, stencils, stamps, mini
chalk boards, and more. A proper grasp is learned while writing and coloring. Children also learn
controlled writing movements. This form of exposure helps children strengthen the fine motor
development of their wrists, hands and fingers.
Sensory
Water, shaving cream, rice, clay, playdough, flubber, and goop are just a few items available to
provide children with experiences to exercise muscles that control their fingers, hands and arms.
Sensory activities give children the opportunity to talk about “how it feels, smells, looks like,” etc.
Art
Children are given the opportunity to design and create. Paint, glue, water color, chalk, markers,
crayons, colored pencils, beads, buttons, tissue paper, feathers, and much more are available for
the children to use while they create their daily masterpieces!
©2007-08 Tiny Town Pre-School. All Rights Reserved.
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Preschool: 2.6 - 3.11 years
Pre-K: 3.11 - 6 years
Junior Kindergarten: 4.5 - 6 years
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Sparta, NJ 07871 Phone: 973-579-9999 Fax: 973-579-7272
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