Bright Start: Developing Active Minds
PROGRAM OVERVIEW
Pre-K develops young minds to absorb and apply learning effectively and creatively. Students will engage in activities designed to build foundational knowledge and the characteristics needed to succeed in competitive programs. Our program is divided into two-week themed units with various subject areas, including Space, Geography, History, and Geometry.
Designed for Pre-K
3 hrs/day, Monday to Friday, 10 weeks
Key Areas of Development:
Cognitive development in abilities needed for accelerated learning, including processing speed, fluid reasoning, working memory, and perceptual reasoning.
Reinforcement and development in reading, writing, and math fluency.
Development of creative problem-solving.
Behavioral strategies for using class time productively.
What Makes This Program Exceptional
Personalized Attention: Classes will be limited to 6 students or fewer, permitting instructors to assess and address individual student needs.
Engaging Methods: Fun and interactive teaching styles with hands-on activities encourage participation and confidence in their abilities.
Adaptable Curriculum: Each activity is scaled to keep students challenged. The complexity of each activity will be adapted to the skills of each student. The scale will be based upon in-class assessments enabled by our small class size.
Learning Habits: Our structured procedures foster classroom behavior that leads to productive learning in the classroom. These habits will prepare students to maximize their benefits from the time in a classroom.
Themed Units: By focusing the development of our units into themes, students will develop an appreciation for interdisciplinary approaches to all subject areas.
Daily Updates: Parents will be able to track student activities on our class photo album. Photos from the classroom will be posted each day to enable parents to prompt their students to talk about what they are learning in the classroom. Students will also be supplied with Words of the Day as prompts to relate their classroom experiences.
Readiness for Accelerated Learning: Upon completing this program, students will have developed the thinking skills necessary for success in accelerated learning programs and standardized tests, such as CogAT, WPPSI, and IQ Interviews.
Through small group learning, students will develop reading, writing, and math skills as well as increase memory, processing speed, and reasoning abilities. This program fosters not just academic growth but a lifelong love for thinking and learning.
Lead Instructor
Ms. Ginna Luck
With more than 20 years of teaching experience, Ginna Luck has considerable skill developing the cognitive abilities of young learners. She began as a pre-school aid, then moved on to teach ESL to pre-K students, discovering her love of teaching young children. Her gentle demeanor makes her especially suited for supporting students who are learning how to adapt to classroom environments. Young students who are shy or slow to acclimate find Ms. Ginna a safe and comforting support.
In the last seven years, she’s been teaching reading and writing to pre-K and 1st-grade students. She’s worked extensively with students of all range of abilities and adapts her teaching style to accommodate student needs. This includes students who possess high levels of retention and quickly apply what they have learned to students who don’t speak English and are learning basic writing and reading sounds and letters. Ms. Ginna is especially effective at teaching writing, helping students expand their knowledge of vocabulary, sentence structure, and paragraph organization. She specializes in teaching academic and creative writing.