Acrokids Academy Pre-School Information

Kangaroos and Koalas (2 to 3 years)
Our kangaroos and koalas are ready to take on a few more challenges. In these classrooms we work on colors, shapes, sizes, comparisons, fine motor skills, large motor skills, counting and much more. These students are eager to learn, and we want to encourage the through lots of love and instruction. We begin working on the names of the letters and numbers at this age, and encouraging children to find the letters they have learned in their environment. We keep our kangaroos and koalas in small groups so that they can have plenty of instruction and interaction with the teacher. This is also the age when many of our student are working on potty learning, so we want our teacher to be ready and available to help with that as needed.

Turtles and pandas (ages 3 to 4 years)
Our Turtles and pandas are busy. Busy. Busy ! Acrokids teachers engage the children in academics throughout each day focusing on learning letter names, letter sounds, numbers, counting, basic math skills, calendar concepts and much more. The children spend time each day in large and small groups, with lots of individual attention. We keep the lowest child to caregiver ratios in the area which allows plenty of instructional attention and keeps our groups small to prevent the conflicts between students that are so typical in other “daycares”

Zebras- per- kindergarten (ages 4 to 5 years)
Pre-kindergarten student need focused academic attention to make certain they are ready for the big kindergarten year to come. Our teachers lead the children through a large group time each morning that explains the theme for the day and what skills they will be working on. The children are then broken up into smaller groups for work on phonics, math, reading, science, and social studies. During small group instruction the children have individualized instruction making certain that all skills, needed for kindergarten are understood.

Eagles- Junior Kindergarten (ages 4 to 5 years)
Acrokids offers an advanced pre-kindergarten classroom called “junior kindergarten” This classroom uses an advanced curriculum and operated under a kindergarten classroom model. We require our junior kindergartners to come to school 5 days per week so that we cam make certain to have consistency in their learning children in this classroom are expected to already have a working knowledge of letter and number names, and are ready to use the sounds of the letters to begin sounding out words. Children are instructed in sight words, early math skills, basic reading, calendar skills, science, social studies, and much more. This is an intensive curriculum and will require some “homework” on occasion. An assessment is required belore enrollment will be confirmed, and classroom behavior will also be considered.