Discover The Next Step: Kindergarten Prep
Discover The Next Step: Kindergarten Prep
Kindergarten Prep at Bright Horizons
The last year before kindergarten is a time of enormous and exciting growth. As a parent, you want your child to enjoy this stage while building the right skills for the steps ahead. We offer a program that gives you both; teachers who cherish this important time, and curriculum recognized by parents and teachers for helping children build the social and academic skills needed to be ready for school.
Experiences to Inspire a Love of Learning
Our research-based kindergarten prep program has been carefully designed to meet children’s unique needs while preparing them for elementary school.
Program highlights include:
- Teachers who encourage children to reach developmental and academic milestones
- Creative, hands-on, and project-based learning
- Support for core pre-academic areas including literacy, mathematical reasoning, and scientific investigation
- Multiple and diverse learning activities that ensure children thrive in all areas of development
- Focus on the understanding of teamwork and positive self-image
- Safety, security, and cleanliness practices that meet or exceed all state, local, and national guidelines
- Growing Readers: Ready to Read provides beginning reading knowledge that sets children up for a lifelong love of reading by building skills such as understanding familiar words in their world and retelling their favorite books
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Signature Practices
Our World at Their Fingertips® curriculum includes kindergarten prep Signature Practices that inspire critical thinking and build on the skills your child needs for success in kindergarten and beyond:
- Daily Experience Sheets: Child-completed accounts of the day’s activities to develop writing skills
- Word Rings: A set of individualized “words I know” cards to encourage word and letter recognition
- Rotating Math Stations: Hands-on materials to practice sequencing, graphing, and estimation
- Science Fair: A project showcase to get children excited about science and what they’ve learned
- Journal Writing: Opportunities to communicate thoughts and ideas about language, science, and math-related organizational skills by writing them down on paper
Our Other Programs
Infant
Providing a warm, welcoming environment where your baby can grow
Toddler/Twos
Empowering toddlers to be confident, successful, lifelong learners
Preschool
Preparing children for school through academic and social learning
Kindergarten
Development of strong literacy and math skills essential for school
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