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 (9:05am – 2:00pm). Lunch Bunch is available to full day children. The following are our Preschool and Kindergarten Enrichment offerings:
Preschool
Young Artists
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
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
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
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.
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.
Kindergarten
Kindergarten Reader's Workshop - (Monday afternoon)
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. (Wednesday afternoon)
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.
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 (9:05am – 2:00pm). Lunch Bunch is available to full day children. The following are our Preschool and Kindergarten Enrichment offerings:
Preschool
Young Artists
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
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
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
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.
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.
Kindergarten
Kindergarten Reader's Workshop - (Monday afternoon)
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. (Wednesday afternoon)
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.