Loading...Our school’s thoughtful approach and robust curriculum is enhanced by regularly occurring enrichment programs. Most of the programs happen on specific days of the week either during the school day or during our After Care program.
Music Program
Our music program has the children singing, moving and dancing, playing different percussion instruments, improvising, rhyming, and even writing new verses to songs. Oftentimes we sneak in fun concepts such as music notation, rhythms and patterns, tempo and keeping steady beats, and ideas like loud and quiet, fast and slow, and high and low.
Amazing Atheletes
Amazing Athletes is a comprehensive physical education program specifically designed for preschool-aged children. It utilizes the movements of nine different sports along with a variety of games and activities in a way that helps children to meet, master, and exceed their motor development milestones and build self-confidence. Amazing Athletes also incorporate lessons in sportsmanship and teamwork, and each week introduces a fruit or vegetable and teaches how it specifically helps our bodies. Amazing Athletes is typically offered as a choice during our After Care program.
Gymnastics
The Gymnastics Bus is the leading preschool gymnastics enrichment program in the North Bay. Coach Isaac combines his background as a preschool teacher and gymnastics coach to create a program kids, teachers, and parents love.
Monthly Wildcare “Nature Van” educational visits
Have you ever touched a skunk’s fur or felt a rattlesnake’s scales? The interactive presentations offered by Wild Care provide our preschool students with the opportunity to be hands-on with animals they wouldn’t otherwise be able to experience up close, leaving them with a strengthened sense of responsibility toward preserving our planet.
Grade-school readiness
The Ross Preschool has a partnership with our colleagues across the street at Ross Elementary School. One of our favorite opportunities is when we go to watch some of theater performances at “big school” in a low stress way, surrounded by their preschool teachers and friends. Thanks in part to these positive experiences in an elementary school setting, our students graduate to kindergarten with increased confidence and decreased anxiety.
Education begins the moment we see children as innately wise and capable beings. Only then can we play along in their world.
Vince Gowmon
