Pre-K FOR ALL Program
PRE-K FOR aLL AT IVY PREP EARLY LEARNING ACADEMY
Ivy Prep Early Learning Academy provides the Pre-K for All program, offering FREE, full-day, high-quality education for children ages 4 to 5 in New York City. Families can apply during the calendar year their child turns four. The program runs from 8:30 a.m. to 2:50 p.m., five days a week, with options for earlier and extended hours available for an additional fee. This initiative helps children build vital learning strategies they will use in kindergarten and beyond.
Enrollment Information
To enroll your child in the Pre-K for All program, use the following school codes for our various locations:
Bayside
School Code: QBGS
Bronx
School Code: XANI
Staten Island
School Code: RAIT
The Creative Curriculum
Ivy Prep is proud to implement The Creative Curriculum, ranked #1 for preschool education. Our dedicated teachers focus on preparing children for the transition to kindergarten by fostering confidence, uniqueness, and caring through play-based and hands-on investigations. This research-driven approach incorporates language, literacy, mathematics, social interactions, and active learning throughout the day.
Enhancing Learning Through Exploration
In our Pre-K classrooms, children engage in interactive, project-based investigations that promote critical thinking and creativity. By exploring relevant and engaging topics, children learn to inquire, discover, and think critically, reinforcing their learning not only at school but also with family-friendly activities designed for home reinforcement.
Individualized Learning Experience
At Ivy Prep, we recognize that every child learns differently. Our Pre-K program utilizes a unique color-coded progression from The Creative Curriculum to ensure that instruction meets each child's developmental milestones from ages 4 to 5. This personalized approach allows teachers to create tailored learning experiences that support every child's journey.
Enroll Your Child into Early Learning Opportunities
Give your child the best start in their educational journey by enrolling them in our Pre-K for All program. Experience the benefits of high-quality, individualized early learning at Ivy Prep Early Learning Academy.
- Expresses feelings
- Initiates activities with another child
- Cooperates with other children, with assistance
- Negotiates with peers
- Approaches other children positively
- States a position with a reason
- Shows empathy
- Uses pretend play to explore, practice, and understand social roles
- Engages in cooperative play
- Successfully transitions from one activity/ setting to the next
- Shows concern for fairness
- Describes own basic physical characteristics
- Enjoys the process of creating
- Asks others for information
- Investigates and experiments with materials
- Uses “Why” to get information
- Develops personal interest
- Joins a play activity already in progress
- Remains engaged in activities for at least 10 minutes
- Makes up words, songs, or stories
- Engages in extensive pretend play
- Tells others about events that happened in the past
- Works out problems
- Focuses on the meaning of words rather than grammar
- Uses sentences
- Responds appropriately to a request
- Has a receptive vocabulary of a several hundred words
- Asks the meaning of unfamiliar words
- Uses multiple words to explain an idea
- Speech is entirely intelligible
- Describes a task
- Uses past tense
- Responds to questions with verbal answers or gestures
- Engages in conversation
- Tells a short make-believe story, with assistance
- Begins to draw representational figures
- Identifies some individual letter in a text
- Recognizes own printed name
- Uses pictures to predict a story Identifies major characters in story
- Imitates common reading activities
- Crawls through a play tunnel or under tables
- Throws a ball overhand with some accuracy
- Catches large balls with two hands
- Kicks a ball forward
- Gallops with skill
- Uses various drawing and art materials
- Cutting skills progress from inaccurate cutting to proper grasp with some degree of accuracy
- Completes increasingly complex puzzles
- Writes name
- Begins to write some recognizable letters or numbers
- Demonstrates concepts through movement
- Improves eye-hand coordination
- Covers mouth when coughing
- Washes and dries hands independently
- Takes care of toileting needs and asks for assistance when needed
- Asks “why” questions to show effort at understanding causation
- Organizes objects by more than one pre-selected characteristic
- Applies new information or vocabulary to an activity
- Generates a strategy based on one learning event and extends it to a new learning opportunity
- Uses symbols or pictures as representation for oral language
- Engages in complex make-believe play
- Names numerals up to 20 or more
- Understands that numbers represent quantity
- Recognizes the names of some numerals
- Counts at least five objects in one to one correspondence without assistance
- Tells what number comes before or after a given number up to ten
- Estimates size
- Labels objects using size words
- Creates, builds, or draws shapes
- Orders objects from smallest to largest
- Creates patterns
- Classifies objects
- Uses positional words
- Makes predictions
- Retells a simple story or event in roughly sequential order
- Knows first and last name
- Names address and telephone number
- Participates in music experiences