Pre-K FOR ALL Program
PRE-K FOR aLL AT IVY PREP EARLY LEARNING ACADEMY
PRE-K FOR ALL ages 4 – 5 Years
- In New York City, you can apply to PRE-K in the calendar year that your child turns four. PRE-K FOR ALL brings FREE, full-day, high-quality education to four-year-old children 5 days week from 8:30a.m to 2:50p.m. We do offer earlier and extended hours at additional costs. Please see more information under Wrap Around Program for 3K/PRE-K. During the D.O.E PRE-K FOR ALL program at Ivy Prep Early Learning Academy, your 4 years old can continue to develop learning strategies that he or she can utilize in Kindergarten and beyond. Click the link in the blue box to apply! MYSCHOOLS.NYC
- Bayside Location School Code: QBGS
- Bronx Location School Code: XANI
- Staten Island School Code: RAIT
In pre-K programs, teachers are focused on preparing children for their next big adventure, kindergarten!
The Creative Curriculum is ranked #1 for Preschool Curriculum which is why Ivy Prep Early Learning Academy is proud to utilize it in our Pre-k for all classrooms. Our schools empower children to be confident, unique, and caring learners through play-based, hands-on investigations, a research-based approach that incorporates language, literacy, mathematics, physical movements, social interactions and fun throughout the day.
We build children’s confidence, creativity, and critical thinking skills through interactive, project-based investigations. We promote discovery and inquiry with opportunities for children to think critically and develop process skills with rich, engaging relevant and interesting topics in the classroom. We also reinforce learning by supporting family-friendly activities designed for home.
Our teachers utilize resources designed specifically to support the unique demands of each day in a three’s preschool program. Teachers and caregivers can provide children with the opportunity to develop secure attachments through developmentally appropriate resources that allow them to gain confidence as learners.
Every child is different, so it’s no surprise that they learn differently, too. Ivy Prep Early Learning Academy meets four year olds exactly at their level with The Creative Curriculum’s unique color-coded progression that shows the typical development of milestones from 4 to 5 years of age.
Tracking Your Child’s Progress Throughout the Pre-K Program
- 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