Through our Early Childhood Education Program, we strive to ensure the social, emotional, and academic development of these young students through our thoughtfully designed curriculum. Building self-confidence and enhancing a love for learning, combined with strong character development, are the hallmarks of success at Guthrie where our students are prepared to be leaders as they enter their elementary classrooms.
Pre-School students are rising or young four-year-olds who are developmentally prepared to benefit academically and socially from teacher-guided group instruction.
Key elements of Pre-School curriculum:
- Fine motor development; patterns, puzzles, and spatial training; gross motor development (active play and PE class)
- Speech development; letter recognition; phonics; sight words; literature comprehension; beginning reading; vocabulary
- Social studies and science
- Writing (letters/numbers); Art; Music; Foreign Language
- Counting, numeration, addition
Pre-Kindergarten students are older fours or rising five-year olds who are developmentally prepared to benefit academically and socially from teacher-guided group instruction. Pre-Kindergarten builds on key concepts from introduced in Pre-School and includes:
Key elements of Pre-Kindergarten curriculum:
- Fine motor development (pencil grip); patterns, puzzles, and spatial training; gross motor development (active play and PE class)
- Speech development (class play)
- Literacy development: Letter recognition; phonics; sight words; literature comprehension; reading; vocabulary
- Social studies and science
- Writing (words/sentences); Art; Music; Foreign Language
- Counting, numeration, addition, subtraction