Preschool

At Central Christian Academy in Greenbrier, health and safety is also extremely important for your young infant. Our staff is diligent in hand washing practices and daily sanitation procedures. All infant room staff also wear shoe covers to ensure the classroom is always clean for infants to explore the environment. In addition, we have magnetic locking security features on the exterior doors and cameras in all of the classrooms. Communication is key to partnering with parents of young infants. You will receive a daily information about your child’s meals, diaper changes, naps, and other daily activities using our convenient app.Infants are all on individual schedules at this age. Ensuring your child’s daily schedule is followed in our classrooms is a priority. We participate in the Special Nutrition Program, so we can provide all of your baby food and cereal at no cost to you. Special dietary restrictions apply. Nutrition is very important to your growing baby.Weather and age permitting, we take our babies outside in the double quad strollers for a nice stroller ride or will sit a big blanket outside on the grass and blow bubbles with them. It is important for children of all ages to have fresh air and experience the outdoors when possible

Music, Movement and Finger Plays: Our preschool classes participate in two organized faith based musical programs per year (Christmas and Spring). The daily classroom is equipped with a variety of musical instruments, and movement materials. Songs for learning colors and phonetic sounds are used during circle times and throughout the day. These songs are shared with parents, so they can be reinforced at home.
Bible Focus: Daily bible lessons are shared through a variety of materials, such as flannel board stories, finger plays, songs and reading scripture from the Bible.
Language/Cognitive: Language development in our preschool classrooms is always fun to listen to! Children at this age are quite the talkers, and teaching them to speak properly and to communicate their thoughts clearly is important! We often ask children to remember to “use their words. Our teachers implement a variety of language activities in their daily lesson planning such as finger plays, rhyming games, phonics, and other fun activities.
Gross Motor: Preschool children are on the move! Encouraging gross motor play through supervised activities inside and outside is important. Our gross motor activities also incorporate encouraging peer interaction, cooperative play, following directions and reinforcing the daily curriculum theme. Indoor activities range from an indoor mini-trampoline, parachute activities, to even an indoor obstacle course through the classroom on rainy days! Our outdoor play space is age appropriate for your preschool child. We offer two separate preschool outdoor play areas, with varying levels of equipment.
Social/Emotional: In addition to academic kindergarten readiness, we also believe that encouraging social-emotional growth and development of preschooler’s is very important. Your preschool child is learning about themselves, their desire to have control in their environment, their ability to utilize a longer attention span, and the intricacies of interacting with their peers. Our teachers nurture these social emotional skills daily through peer mediation and role playing.
Sensory Exploration: Preschool children enjoy sensory exploration, in other words they like to touch and feel and smell and explore! We build on sensory exploration in the classroom by incorporating language/cognitive skills, gross and fine motor skills and movement. Our preschool classroom is equipped with a variety of equipment to promote sensory exploration, such as a sand and/or water table, play dough, and different writing materials. Even through graphing the smells, tastes and feeling of different items is integrating sensory exploration into science, math and language concepts. You should see the chart they create about broccoli!

Music, Movement and Finger Plays: Our preschool classes participate in two organized faith based musical programs per year (Christmas and Spring). The daily classroom is equipped with a variety of musical instruments, and movement materials. Songs for learning colors and phonetic sounds are used during circle times and throughout the day. These songs are shared with parents, so they can be reinforced at home.
Bible Focus: Daily bible lessons are shared through a variety of materials, such as flannel board stories, finger plays, songs and reading scripture from the Bible.
Language/Cognitive: Language development in our preschool classrooms is always fun to listen to! Children at this age are quite the talkers, and teaching them to speak properly and to communicate their thoughts clearly is important! We often ask children to remember to “use their words. Our teachers implement a variety of language activities in their daily lesson planning such as finger plays, rhyming games, phonics, and other fun activities.
Gross Motor: Preschool children are on the move! Encouraging gross motor play through supervised activities inside and outside is important. Our gross motor activities also incorporate encouraging peer interaction, cooperative play, following directions and reinforcing the daily curriculum theme. Indoor activities range from an indoor mini-trampoline, parachute activities, to even an indoor obstacle course through the classroom on rainy days! Our outdoor play space is age appropriate for your preschool child. We offer two separate preschool outdoor play areas, with varying levels of equipment.
Social/Emotional: In addition to academic kindergarten readiness, we also believe that encouraging social-emotional growth and development of preschooler’s is very important. Your preschool child is learning about themselves, their desire to have control in their environment, their ability to utilize a longer attention span, and the intricacies of interacting with their peers. Our teachers nurture these social emotional skills daily through peer mediation and role playing.
Sensory Exploration: Preschool children enjoy sensory exploration, in other words they like to touch and feel and smell and explore! We build on sensory exploration in the classroom by incorporating language/cognitive skills, gross and fine motor skills and movement. Our preschool classroom is equipped with a variety of equipment to promote sensory exploration, such as a sand and/or water table, play dough, and different writing materials. Even through graphing the smells, tastes and feeling of different items is integrating sensory exploration into science, math and language concepts. You should see the chart they create about broccoli!