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Little Blessings Enrichment Explorers offers parents more choices and children
more opportunities for learning. Putting together enrichment classes with a pre-school or Kindergarten class provides
a full day option (9am – 3pm) for parents.
Art
Works! - (Held on Wed, Thurs, 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
- (Preschool meets Monday afternoon or Friday morning or
afternoon.
Kindergarten meets
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 - (Meets Monday or Tuesday
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 - (Meets 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.
Pre-School Science & Math
Wizards - (Meets Tues, Wed, Thurs afternoon
or Thursday morning)
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.
Kindergarten Science and Math Wizards - (Meets
Tuesday mornings)
The goal of this class is to enrich the science
and math skills that children are learning in their regular Kindergarten
class. Opportunities will be provided for children to explore,
experiment, and learn about growth and change in the earth and the
environment they live in.
Kindergarten at Little Blessings…
Our Kindergarten class meets
from 12:30 pm to 3:15 pm. Children must be 5 years old by October
1st. The curriculum is aligned with the local
school district’s curriculum, standards, and measures of achievement.
The class size is limited to 16 students with two teachers. This allows
us to have plenty of time for small group and one-on-one interaction.
Time is scheduled each week for Godly Play and Music.
Both teachers hold degrees
in education; our lead teacher holds an Illinois teaching credential.
Kindergarten children have a
full day option on Tuesdays, with Science and Math in the morning, and
Fridays, with Book Club in the morning.
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