Preschool Program
Preparing Students For Their Education Career
Our Achievements
Reid Traditional Schools’ Preschool Program expands a preschooler’s knowledge and prepares them to be successful in kindergarten through age-appropriate academics using weekly thematic units of learning. We offer Full-Day and Half-Day Preschool with before and after school programs available!
Our Preschool Program is dedicated to providing a nurturing educational environment that prepares four-year-old children for kindergarten success. Three-year-old children are also welcome to enroll at Painted Rock Academy. Continue reading to learn more about our preschool curriculum and activities. Contact a member of our staff at Reid Traditional Schools today with any questions!
Our Preschool Curriculum
We provide a preschool program based on developmental milestones that will foster a positive self image and social skills through reading readiness, pre-math, language developmental activities, music, art, and movement activities.
Thematic units will focus on:
• Phonemic awareness and letter recognition
• Awareness of print and early reading concepts
• Number recognition and early math concepts
• Critical thinking skills such as predicting, recalling events, and sequencing
• Music, Art, and Movement classes will be used to develop fine and gross motor skills
Language and Literacy Development
- Instilling the love of reading through listening to fine literature
- Retelling stories and drawing pictures about stories
- Understanding the relationship between letters and sounds (early phonics)
- Knowledge of print
- Written expression with use of words or drawings to convey meaning
Mathematics
- Sorting
- Understanding directions (up, down, top, bottom, etc.)
- Recognizing numbers
- Simple problem solving
- Patterns and functions (basic shapes, colors, and classifications)
Science
As children explore the classroom and outdoor environments, they learn about science and the role it plays in our lives.
Our science curriculum focuses on developing an understanding of:
- Making and recording observations (the concepts of same and different)
- Exploring our environment (the five senses)
- Exploring our earth (weather, plants, and animals)
Programs and Hours Available
Reid Traditional Schools’ Valley Academy and Painted Rock Academy offer full-day and half-day preschool for four-year-old children with classes held Monday through Friday. We also offer Extended Day hours for before and after care, with a separate meeting space dedicated to our youngest students.
Preschool for three-year-old children is also available at Painted Rock Academy.
Students who are not picked up at the end of the preschool day are automatically admitted to Extended Day, and additional fees apply. There is no after school Extended Day for half-day students.
To be eligible for preschool, the child must be three years old (Painted Rock Academy) or four years old (Valley Academy) on or before August 31st of the school year and must be fully toilet trained.
- Full Day Hours: 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Check in as early as 8:00 a.m.
- Half Day Hours: 8:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Check in as early as 8:00 a.m.
- Extended Day Hours-Before School: 6:30 a.m. to 8:00 a.m.
- Extended Day Hours-After School: 3:30 p.m. to 6:15 p.m.
- Extended Day Hours-After School Early Release Days: 11:30 a.m. to 6:15 p.m.
Please note that Preschool follows the K-8 school calendar including Winter Break, Spring Break, Monday Holidays, other Holidays, and early release days.
Preschool Tuition
How to Apply and What Happens Next
We encourage you to complete a Pre-Enrollment Application form to join the waiting list. Preschool waiting list applications may be submitted beginning the first Monday in November for the following school year.
Students must be four years old on or before August 31st of the school year in order to be placed on the Waiting List (or three years old at Painted Rock Academy only), and they must be fully potty trained. Placement in preschool is offered based upon the Waiting List. There is not a lottery for preschool placement.
By early January, we will begin notifying families that placement is available, and we will continue to contact families about registration until all places have been reserved. The $40 registration fee and first month’s tuition are required to reserve your child’s place; these payments are not refundable.
We would love to have every one of our preschoolers attend our kindergarten, but membership in our preschool program does not give priority placement status for following year’s Kindergarten class. We do, however, make sure our preschool families know when the public kindergarten Open Enrollment windows are, for the greatest likelihood of being offered enrollment. Contact Reid Traditional Schools today with any questions or concerns about our Preschool Program!