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Little Blessings Enrichment Explorers offers parents more choices and children
more opportunities for learning. Putting together enrichment classes with a preschool
or Kindergarten class provides
a full day option (9am – 3pm) for parents.
The following are our Preschool
Enrichment Offerings.
(For Kindergarten Enrichment options, see the "Kindergarten"
tab.)
Art
Works! - (Wednesday, Thursday, or Friday afternoons)
The Little Blessings Art Works! enrichment program is designed to
develop and increase children's love for art and artistic expression
through a variety of mediums. Children will
be introduced to various artists past and present.
Book Club
- (Monday afternoon or Friday morning or
afternoon.)
This class
is designed to increase children's love for literature and books while
enriching their language arts skills and other subjects within the
Illinois Department of Education Early Learning Standards. Each month
the class focuses on a specific author and their writing style.
Children will make literary predictions and learn new vocabulary words
while developing reading, writing, and oral expression skills.
Health and Fitness - (Monday, Tuesday, or
Thursday
afternoon)
This class is an organized movement class that helps children build
motor skills, learn about physical fitness, and instills a love of
movement that your child will use throughout their life. Health and
Fitness follows the Starting Healthy Curriculum.
Spanish
Explorers - (Monday or Wednesday afternoon)
Spanish Explorers follows the Sonrisas Early
Childhood Curriculum to help foster a positive Spanish language
experience for your child. This fun class fosters openness to the
sounds, songs, culture and the people who use the Spanish language.
Science & Math
Wizards - (Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday afternoon)
This class is designed to increase children's interest and knowledge of
math and science building on what young children already know and are
capable of doing. Children develop problem solving
skills and pre-math skills such as patterning, predicting, comparing,
classifying and gathering data.
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