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 is available for children attending a full day. Learn more about our Preschool and Kindergarten Enrichment offerings below.

​Preschool

Young Artists	This class is designed to develop and increase a child'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 a child'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 & 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 multi-sensory methods 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.
Spanish	The purpose of this class is for every child to begin recognizing the target language and their Speakers begin to starts understand them. They become comfortable with using the tools and vocabulary to communicate. We aim to achieve this while students are playing and having fun in a safe and interactive environment.

Kindergarten

Readers' Workshop (Monday afternoon)	Every month children 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 are studied each week. The children 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.