Little Blessings
4055 S. Book Rd.     Naperville, IL

630-904-9898

Business Hours:  8:30am - 1:30pm
**Limited summer hours**

Closed major holidays
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Enrichment Classes


Little Blessings Enrichment Explorers offers parents more choices and children more opportunities for learning. Combining enrichment classes with a preschool or Kindergarten class provides a full day option (9:00am – 3:00pm). Lunch Bunch is available to full day children.  The following are our Preschool and Kindergarten Enrichment offerings:
 
Preschool
Young Artists - (Wednesday, or Thursday 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 - (Tuesday or Friday 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  and Development  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 - (Wednesday 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.

Writing Readiness- (Monday afternoon)
Writing Readiness employs the Handwriting Without Tears curriculum, and uses music, movement, and multisensory manipulatives to get children ready for handwriting.  Readiness skills that are taught include crayon grip, number and capital letter formation, and body awareness.

Preschool S.T.E.M. - (Monday, Tuesday,or Friday afternoon) 
This class is designed to increase children's interest and knowledge of science, technology, engineering and math 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.

Lunch and Learn - 1:30pm pick-up There is a one-hour learning time that offers a shortened version of our enrichment classes.
Preschoolers may register for Lunch and Learning that ends at 1:30pm.  
                                         Mondays- Fun with Books     Tuesdays - Fun with Books       Wednesdays - Fun with Art       
                                                 Thursdays - Fun with Health & Fitness       Fridays - Fun with Science& Math
    

Kindergarten
Kindergarten Reader's Workshop - (Tuesday morning)
Every month children will explore several books written by the same author.  As they do this they will enrich their language arts skills (reading, writing,and oral expression).  New sight words and vocabulary words will be studied each week.  The children will write in journals as they practice organizing their
thoughts and communicating on paper. 

Kindergarten S.T.E.M. (Thursday morning)
Children will explore the major content areas in mathematics:  number sense, algebra,  measurement, geometry, and data analysis.  They will use experimentation to research various science topics.  Children will also learn about growth and change in the earth and environment as they use observational skills to collect and record data,
and document change.