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Fall Fun for 3 and 4 year olds at Friends of Jesus Christian Preschool at Zion Lutheran Church in Kalamazoo
Classes

 

3 Year Olds

Tuesday and Thursday (2 days/week)

8:30am to 11:30am

                           OR

Monday through Friday (5 days/week)

8:30am to 11:30am

Our three-year-old program provides children with a structured setting to work on social/emotional, physical, language, and cognitive development. Students learn to positively interact with peers and adults, while exploring the world around them using their natural curiosity. Every day, children engage in both teacher and student-led activities and play, as well as learning Bible stories, singing songs, and storytime. Early literacy and math concepts are introduced including letter/number recognition, phonemic awareness, counting and patterns.

4 Year Olds

Monday, Wednesday, & Friday (3 days/week)

8:30am to 11:30am

                          OR

Monday through Friday (5 days/week)

8:30am to 11:30am

Our four-year-old classroom prepares students for kindergarten by providing instruction in literacy, math, science, social studies, and the arts. Children learn academic skills, build independence, and express creativity through daily small group learning, choice activities, stories, and songs. Students engage in Bible stories, which are reinforced through weekly chapel, crafts and prayer. Prekindergarten skills taught include letter recognition and sounds, print concepts, comprehension, numbers, shapes, and patterns. 

Wraparound/Childcare 

 

Friends of Jesus Preschool offers before care beginning at 7 AM and wraparound childcare until 5:30 PM, daily, for preschool students. Children can also participate in "lunch bunch" from 11:30-12:30 Monday-Friday. These options can be added on at a daily or weekly basis, as staffing allows. Please contact us for more information.

Summer Camp

Half day and full day summer camp will be available beginning Summer 2024. More information to come!

*Choice Time

During Choice Time, children choose how they would like to structure their own unguided time in various interest areas including:

  • Letters & Reading

  • Numbers & Math

  • Art Room: Open ended art explorations

  • Hands on Science

  • Dramatic Play: kitchen, doll nursery, tool bench, dress-up, sand & water tables

  • Fine Motor Manipulatives

  • Outside Play: bikes, scooters, slides, balls, and sandbox

We consider our playground an outdoor classroom.

Art room for 3 and 4 year olds at Friends of Jesus Christian Preschool at Zion Lutheran Church in Kalamazoo
Facitilies for 3 and 4 year olds at Friends of Jesus Christian Preschool at Zion Lutheran Church in Kalamazoo
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