Self Development Preschool offers a unique and advanced preschool program, which successfully prepares children for kindergarten.
This program allows children to begin their educational learning experience in a caring and intellectually stimulated environment. The 3- to 5-year-old classroom introduces kindergarten and first grade curriculum goals, and encourages concept mastery and academic confidence.
The preschool prepares children to learn key subject matter, yielding knowledge for a classroom environment transition. The school’s success is based on teaching children the principles of number, letter and sound recognition. This success further extends to learning the alphabet, verbal memorization, writing exercises and sight words, as well as introduction to reading and phonics to prepare for reading.
The children start to read on their own, and build the confidence to tackle the advanced reading in the kindergarten program. With the use of daily math facts, mathematical components include number concepts and introduction to addition and subtraction.
The staff simulates the structure and schedule of a kindergarten classroom. The day begins with table work, which includes sight words, phonics, spelling, writing, reading and math instruction.
During the instruction, the children complete worksheets with teacher feedback and encouragement. There are two to three classroom teachers present. The children learn the core curriculum within a positive and nurturing classroom. The teachers are professional and dedicated. The result is children who are set up for success to enter kindergarten.
Early educational intervention promotes a foundation for academic success. The 3- to 5- year-old classroom is truly impressive, and prepares the children very well for Self Development Charter School’s kindergarten program. An equally exciting and advanced curriculum, the kindergarten program is located directly next door to the preschool. At Self Development Charter School, each grade level learns one full grade level ahead of Arizona state standards.
The kindergarten program uses a multi-sensory phonics instruction, focusing on visual, auditory, tactile and kinesthetic techniques, which reach each child’s learning style. They learn phonemic awareness, red words (sight words), and spelling, writing and reading within each lesson.
By the end of the year, children are reading at or above first grade level, writing grammatically complete sentences, and authoring and editing their own book. Mathematical components include number concepts and introduction to addition and subtraction, with daily math facts, fact families and word problems.
The dedication and sincere devotion of the teachers to instill these essential concepts is amazing. Each classroom has two certified and professional teachers whose goals are to set the students up for success.
If you would like to learn more about these programs, please contact Self Development Preschool at (480) 396-3522, and Self Development Charter School at (480) 641-2640.